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2009 DonorsChoose.org Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

The challenge runs throughout October, with hundreds of bloggers and Twitterers rallying to support classroom requests on DonorsChoose.org. All told, they raised over $275,000 for classroom projects reaching 67,000 students in low-income neighborhoods around the country.

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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. There are 12,000 to 14,000 classroom project requests on the site at a time.

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TweetsGiving: Show Your Gratitude With Epic Change

Amy Sample Ward

Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media. Tags: events fundraising africa epic change tweetsgiving. Why TweetsGiving? Get Involved.

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8 entrepreneurs’ opinions on tech education options available today

The Next Web

As adopting such complicated and constantly changing knowledge takes time, the range of caliber between virtual seminars and in-class certifications can vary—just like their price tags. I want students to be playing with technology — using it, finding out what they like, what they don’t like. Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc.

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Tina Seelig's 9 Ways to Unlock Your Creativity Quotient

Have Fun - Do Good

Connect and combine things in unusual ways Example: She gave her students an assignment to combine two household items and create something with a new function. But if you asked, "Why do we use name tags?" The tighter she made the rules, the more creative the students became, and the more they collaborated with each other.

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media.

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media.

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