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11/09/2018

This is Seize the Awkward .

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The American Foundation for Su***de Prevention (AFSP), Ad Council, and The Jed Foundation (JED) have launched the su***de prevention campaign Seize the Awkward. This national public service campaign aims to empower teens and young adults to reach out to friends with mental health issues who may be at risk for su***de.

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Seize the Awkward talks about serious matters, like depression and su***de, in an upbeat and almost humorous way to help drive an honest, “friend to a friend”, positive and hopeful take on opening up to discuss what is inarguably a very personal and difficult secret for most people.

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Seize the Awkward have partnered with Hannah Hart (and several other online creators) through the Ad Council to “bring the awkward” through her story and honest heart-to-heart take on how to approach a loved one about their depression and anxieties.

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As the world observes ***depreventionday (Sept. 10), we urge everyone to participate and , before its too late. Seize that awkward and break that silence.

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If you, dear reader, personally need help and feel the silence unbearable - call a loved one, or even call your local help line.
You are missed. You are needed. You matter.

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The Ad Council ‘s Creators for Good project connects Talent to Social Causes. Creators for Good empowers influencers, celebrities, musicians and athletes to bring awareness and impact to causes that they care about. Through their partnership with the Ad Council, talent develops authentic and personal content across their digital platforms and serves as issue and cause ambassadors for their chosen and personal campaign. In their own voice, style, and platform, talent is making a meaningful difference on issues such as Su***de Prevention, Bullying Prevention, Breast Cancer Risk Education, Meals on Wheels Volunteer Recruitment and Job Training and Employment at Goodwill, to name just a few.

A heart-felt reminder from Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

***de ***deprevention ***depreventionday ***depreventionday2018

10/09/2018

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, publisher, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
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A mindful reminder from Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

07/09/2018

This is Nisha Kumari Sah - listen to her as she greets in her Nepalese language - with all her heart, and with equal fervent for the cool mobile device that "magically" records her voice. (Listen with sound 🔈)

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Join her and more of her friends over at our Snapstory story-post too!

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This is our most favorite part of the Nepal trip :) with just these joyous words all hard work are worth it!

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“Namaste”, a Nepalese greeting, are given different meanings from the hearts of these children.

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Snapstory joined our partner ActionAid UK in Nepal as they used our Snapstory App to gather and collate 300 plus school children and their families from remote villages. These pictures and voices are then part of the data recorded and saved into their Snapstory App Admin.

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Namaste!

From the hearts and minds of Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

06/09/2018

While waiting for our newly revolutionized Snapstory explainer-video, here's our very first generation explainer-video to jug your memory!

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This video was in the very early stages of our little app that could - as we were still getting it off the ground, and soaring steady with our very first partners: Sankara Eye Foundation, India ; Lessons for Life ; and AiDS Orphan UK Trust .

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Stay tuned for our new and improved explainer-video! Since then, we have learned so much more from our pioneering-partners, and have incorporated all these knowledge into a much more robust Snapstory App that enables a much wider range of possibilities for , and .

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From the the hearts and minds of Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

05/09/2018

So! How do you teach kids - that have never seen a computer nor Twitter before, without having a computer or internet on hand - about in Twitter? You play a makeshift game of tag - that's how!

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Watch Melissa Leon teach in action about Twitter when there weren't really any computer/internet yet at the village-school she was teaching at for the Project. Arusha, Tanzania

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This is a Snapstory for Wednesdays! A to the first experimentation of and for Misfit and Snapstory

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Today’s minisode brings as back to Day 2 of the project, where our very own Melissa Leon is in the process of teaching these fifth graders how work, by playing a little game of tag "and now your turn to reply!", despite having no internet yet in the meantime.

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Twitterkids is a social media centric curriculum. In 2009, its one of the first to explore technology, web-connectivity, global-communication and its ability to tell authentic stories and bridge the gap between different parts of the world that would not have been able to if not for these tools. A measurable impact in

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Follow us along as we explore once again these progress for these - specially, stay tuned as we have an Astronaut in the making by the end of this project!

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From the hearts and minds of Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

04/09/2018

This is The Real Action Foundation [ Real Action ] and their Butterfly Effect Project.

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What is Real Action?
Real Action is an independent, community-led, specialist educational charity. With a history extending back to the mid-1990s, Real Action was set up by members of the community it serves.

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They are renowned for their projects, providing fast-acting, effective courses of basic education, especially in literacy for children and adults, and English language. These transform the prospects of people living in underprivileged communities.

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Their Vision: The Right to Read, The Right to Know.

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“This is what we envisage: no child, of any background, should be educationally doomed. On the contrary, they should be educationally empowered. We believe all children have the right to read. Indeed we can demonstrate that, with our Butterfly literacy teaching, virtually all can gain mastery of literacy.”

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Year after year they provide evidence that suggests that 'disadvantaged' children need not be educationally outperformed by their non-'disadvantaged' peers. In fact they find that the opposite can occur.

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“Our vision is positive. It overturns national assumptions.”

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Their centre of operations is the Learning Store in north Westminster, while their Saturday Butterfly classes take place nearby.

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Read here to learn more: realaction.org.uk ; Real Action

From the hearts and minds of Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

03/09/2018

“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.” ― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

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Anthills of the Savannah is a chronicle of continuous struggle by the people to overcome a history of suffering brought about by bad government. A typical confirmation of this fact is that the novel begins with a coup and ends with another coup.

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The internationally acclaimed Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s novel Anthills of the Savannah (1987) is set in the fictional West-African country Kangan in the post-colonial 1960s. Echoing the real political breakdown, several violent coups, and an ethnic cleansing campaign again the Igbo people in 1960s Nigeria, Anthills of the Savannah describes the aftermath of a military coup in Kangan. The novel focuses on the last days in the lives of the newly installed military dictator, Sam, and his two friends: Chris, who becomes a member of the cabinet, and Ikem, an outspoken journalist.

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Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958), often considered his best, is the most widely read book in modern African literature. He won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.

Something to remember, from the hearts and minds of Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

31/08/2018

This is a quick demo of an update form for data recording within the Snapstory App.

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With 7 question formats to choose from, make your surveying life easier by mixing and matching to your heart’s content on these question- templates to ensure optimal sets of data-gathering questionnaires. Create the perfect sets of questions to ask in the field by:

* multiple choice answers
* binary yes-or-no answers
* image-capture answers
* audio-record answers
* date-entry answers
* dropdown answers
* or last but not the least, freeform paragraph answers

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And of course, these are just the beginning. Soon we will be adding more data-recording media along with our updates and feature releases.

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Free yourself from the hassle of paperwork questionnaires, and have a worry-free mind as you conveniently carry and store all these information through our mobile app and your very own admin website access. Never again lose data or question sheets - they are all automatically stored for you and ready when you are. :wink:

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From the hearts and minds of Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

29/08/2018

“Twitterkids is an idea I came up with while teaching ESL in Spanish Harlem, to middle schoolers in 2007. One of the reasons social media worked so well was because it was another way for my students to express themselves in English and communicate with other people around the world. So I adapted the curriculum I used with my students in NYC for the students in Tanzania. In October 2009 AJ and I partnered with Epic Change to write the curriculum for a 2 week period to introduce fifth graders in Arusha, Tanzania to new media. New media is helpful in many ways, but the primary benefit is the ability to communicate our thoughts and ideas to the world. Why shouldn’t we use these tools to teach students?”
- Melissa Leon, Misfit Foundation: Twitter Kids Project

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Welcome back to Snapstory’s for Wednesdays! A to the first experimentation of and for Misfit and Snapstory

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Today’s minisode brings as back to Day 1 of the project, where our very own Melissa Leon is in the process of teaching these fifth graders the visual layout of twitter, despite having no internet yet in the meantime.

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Twitterkids is a social media centric curriculum. In 2009, its one of the first to explore technology, web-connectivity, global-communication and its ability to tell authentic stories and bridge the gap between different parts of the world that would not have been able to if not for these tools. A measurable impact in

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Follow us along as we explore once again these progress for these - specially, stay tuned as we have an Astronaut in the making by the end of this project!

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From the hearts and minds of Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

28/08/2018

“I wanted to create a platform that addresses the issues of digital rights, internet governance, and online violence against women. The main objective of DRF was not to just establish another NGO, but to really start a movement on digital rights and internet freedom issues. I live in a country where you never know when or why the government will ban something on the internet. Another objective of DRF was to give a platform to women leaders so they can reclaim the leadership space in the internet freedom community as well. These ideas were in my head and I wanted to give life to them.”

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Snapstory’s brings us face to face with cyber bullying and the one woman fighting the fight for women’s rights in Pakistan.

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Meet Nighat Dad and Hivos.org. (.daad) (Hivos).

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Nighat Dad is a Pakistani lawyer and Internet activist who runs the not-for-profit organisation Digital Rights Foundation.

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DRF is a research based advocacy organization focusing on ICTs to support Human Rights, democracy and digital governance. They aim at empowering the community, especially women and girls through ICT education and positive development.

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DRF envisions a world where all people, especially women and girls, are able to enjoy a free internet, exercising their rights to freedom of expression, access to information, and privacy fully.

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The first campaign of DRF, Hamara Internet, was launched in 2014 to provide women and girls with knowledge and tools to protect their online freedom of expression. Hamara Internet was a project funded by Making All Voices Count – a five-year international program co-implemented by Hivos that funded new ideas to amplify the voices of citizens. In 2016, Nighat won the Human Rights Tulip award, an annual prize awarded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The prize money allowed Nighat to start a cyber harassment helpline. Hivos’ Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP) has supported the helpline since its inception.

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To learn more: hivos.org; Hivos daad and digitalrightsfoundation.pk (Digital Rights Foundation) - you can also check out her Ted Talk online for more information!

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From the heart and mind of Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

27/08/2018

"We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal."

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On August 28th, 1963 - 55 years ago - Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his famous speech: "I have a dream".

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So, how do *you* dream the world could be?

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A thought from the heart and mind of Jessie White and AJ Leon of Snapstory and Misfit

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