Remove Laptop Remove Participatory Remove Tag
article thumbnail

Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

Tech Soup

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest. We think Watchitoo. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation.

Skype 60
article thumbnail

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tags: backchannel.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Online social networking was just being born. Citizen journalism.

article thumbnail

My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session will be very hands-on, participants will be encouraged to their cameras, laptops, and clips. We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more. We will also design a "Flickr Walk" to take place sometime during the conference.

Wiki 50
article thumbnail

Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. FrontlineSMS:Medic - SMS for Medical Records and Mobile Lab Diagnostics.

Mobile 36
article thumbnail

New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.

article thumbnail

Strange(r) Encounters: Conditions for Engagement

Museum 2.0

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters.