Newseum, Google and YouTube Commemorate The Fallen Journalists of 2010
On May 16th 2011, Washington DC’s Newseum – interactive media museum that instills an appreciation of the importance of a free press and the US’ First Amendment – hosted the Journalists Memorial Rededication honoring the journalists who died covering the news in 2010. Between 1837 and 2010, 2,084 courageous journalists lost their lives while staying [...]
The Self-Imposed Challenge: Assessment and Games-Based Learning
(Cross-posted from Aaron’s blog) For all the talk about games-based learning and gamification of the classroom, I’m surprised the question of assessment hasn’t come up as often as it should have. If it does come up, it’s usually in the form of using games as assessment (e.g., designing a game that demonstrates your understanding of [...]
Three Take-Aways from the Ashoka and World Bank Event: Public Goods through Social Enterprises
Last Wednesday, Ashoka delivered a terrific panel conversation at the World Bank called, Public Goods through Social Enterprises: Creating Hybrid Value Chains. Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich spearheaded the discussion with their thoughts on the growing impact of hybrid value chains, full economic citizenship, and the inevitability of a changemaker world. I had three take-aways that [...]
TechChange & Movements.org Twitter Chat on Friday, June 3rd
How can digital activists harness new technologies, tools, and platforms to be as effective as possible in their work? Digital organizing has arguably been at the heart of the recent protests in the Arab world. In the case of Egypt, a successful campaign run by online activists contributed to bringing hundreds of thousands of people [...]
e-Portfolios: Networking Across Continents
<div id =”blargh” width=”200” height=”… > Whether you think of HTML as a familiar friend or a terrifying alien monster, we can all agree that sometimes code just takes too much time. In an attempt to help a friend build her web presence, and my own while I was at it, I worked my way [...]
Exchange 2.0: The Conversation Continues
This is the second post in a two part series on this topic. The first installment was written by TJ earlier in the week. The Exchange 2.0 conference at the U.S. Institute of Peace on 4/27 offered a stimulating discussion that centered on using new technologies to further cross-cultural learning. While it was clearly conveyed [...]
Exchange 2.0- Weighing the Benefits of Increased Intercultural Awareness
This is part one of a two part series on Exchange 2.0. Even though I never had the chance to do a study abroad, for ten years of my life I had over 150 international students live in my house, which practically made up for it. They all came to learn English, but after sharing [...]
