Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

It's $20 and 100% goes to the charity of your choice: Ashoka, City Year, Creative Commons, Donors Choose, GenerationEngage, Millennium Promise, Oceana, Room to Read, Teach for America, WITNESS, World Wildlife Fund or UNICEF. I sent in my subscription. I chose UNICEF. Photo from GOOD Magazine Flickr Stream. Good Magazine magazine

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article. You may not be able to teach yourself to be a better writer, any more than 8-year-old me could outwit himself with a queen sacrifice. Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

Children are an extremely important constituent to their mission because by teaching youth to be active and healthy at these critical early ages, they can help pass this message along. Facebook, iPads, Blackboard, Wikipedia (don't judge me, but there's good stuff there).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. (tags: listening socialmedia ). Getting Your Nonprofit Ready To Listen. Here's a few: Bloglines. Google Reader. Make sure you establish good RSS habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. In January, NMC released The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. Step 3: Teach people how to start bookmarking! Users add tags to describe online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks or text. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. Here are the examples I showed you in the screencast, using the tag ??? sharpie.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. For teaching and learning. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud. Tourism Campaigns or celebrate a place or county or state.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

The entirety of English Wikipedia constitutes just 0.6 It’s hard to estimate the total size, but we know that the entirety of the English Wikipedia, spanning some 6 million articles, makes up only 0.6 Type a question and GPT-3 directs you to the relevant Wikipedia URL for the answer. percent of GPT-3’s training data.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

She’d been forced to teach in person until April, McLaughlin claimed, and had landed in the hospital a week after campus finally closed. You can go to Wikipedia and become an expert on any medical ailment in 10 or 20 minutes,” he says. “If Then, on July 31st, McLaughlin took the grift even further. I won’t answer questions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Stephanie teaches undergraduate courses in the Nonprofit Leadership and Management program, and she has also been a youth summer camp director for over 20 years. Meanwhile, the condor’s habitat was improved due to work done by government agencies and environmental groups to protect ranging lands and enact laws against lead bullets.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

retrieving sports results in iOS 6; integrating Wikipedia in iOS 7; introducing ‘Hey, Siri’ in iOS 8), but also because the novelty has worn off. Each failed interaction then teaches users: don’t trust this feature. Partly, this seems just because the changes are so small (e.g., We speak, and they stumble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

By blog coaching I mean that I teach people how to run a blog. Then I show them Wikipedia, and I used to demonstrate Wikalong, but the page history of that service is broken and thus so is the wiki as far as I'm concerned. You mentioned that you do blog coaching. What is blog coaching exactly and how do you do it well?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

On the accuracy front, sites like Wikipedia have developed methods of community authoring and editing that make them more voluminous AND more accurate than traditional encyclopedic sources. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens. Be personal. It's very relational.

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Researchers fed another part of the model a bunch of Wikipedia articles to teach it how sentences work, and what words often appear next to each other in different contexts. Essentially, part of the model learned to match patterns of brain activity to the letters someone was typing at the time.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Joshua Greenberg from the New York Public Library talked about transitioning from teaching information literacy to information fluency—helping visitors navigate and harness the vast world of digital information to their own ends. Of course, to do this, staff have to be not just fluent but masters of new information platforms.

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