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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Reimagining equity with AI: What philanthropy can do

Candid

The AI Education Project provides AI-powered resources that streamline lesson planning and integrate AI literacy into classrooms. AI can also lighten the workload of educators while ensuring students AI literacy. In the nonprofit space, large language models like ChatGPT can support overworked staff that operate with limited resources.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized.

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Yes, Visitors Can Help You. But You Have to Let Them.

Museum 2.0

They were planning a wall mural for our classroom. It turned into a pretty wild evening in the classroom, filled with, "Whoa! This experience reminded me of how much confidence it takes to say yes to any new activities (this isn't limited to participatory projects) because of unfamiliarity with the process. You drew that?!"s,

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. Spend some time at the beginning of your presentation explaining to your audience how you will respond to the twitter stream and audience members are more likely to use it responsibly.

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Reflections from Wow2 conversation: Nonprofit Due Dilligence and Micro Blogging in the developing world.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. I also recently discovered this post/podcast called " Remixing the Classroom."

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