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What’s new? Check here for news from HASTAC’s member communities, announcements from various government organizations, updates about the Digital Media & Learning Competition, and other news of general interest to the HASTAC Community. Have news to share? Post it here and spread the word.

What’s new? Check here for news from HASTAC’s member communities, announcements from various government organizations, updates about the Digital Media & Learning Competition, and other news of general interest to the HASTAC Community. Have news to share? Post it here and spread the word.

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By Sheryl Grant on May 1st, 2013
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) today announced a series of activities to advance healthy online experiences so young people can more easily make smart and responsible...
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By HASTAC Admin on Feb 27th, 2013
 A new resource on the newly emerging field of badges and learning is now available on www.hastac.org. Digital Badges: An Annotated Research Bibliography, contains more than 160 entries and is the first resource of its kind on digital badges.This annotated research...
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By HASTAC Admin on Feb 7th, 2013
 A new competition offers $100,000 in prizes for creative and provocative digital media pieces that offer new ideas and fresh perspectives to help improve American democracy. The competition -- Looking@Democracy -- aims to spark a national conversation...
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By HASTAC Admin on Jan 15th, 2013
 Troubling trends involving work, college, and social inequity cited(IRVINE, Calif) -- Close the gap between the no-frills learning that too often happens in-school and the interactive, hands-on learning that usually takes place out of school. Take advantage of the...

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By Megan Senseney on May 24th, 2013
Registration is now open for the JCDL 2013 tutorial "The Europeana Data Model and Collections", Monday, July 22, 9:00-12:00, Indianapolis, Indiana.
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After a long, fun day of hacking in New York City yesterday the Project:Connect – Hacking for a Better Web winners were announced: Social...
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By John Wall on May 9th, 2013
 John N. Wall, Project Director and Professor of English Literature at NC State University, announces that the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project...
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PRESS RELEASE | MAY 9, 2013 GRANT COMPETITION TO PROVIDE $150,000 FOR SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMSMuseums, Libraries, Nonprofits Encouraged to Launch...
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By HASTAC Admin on May 8th, 2013
Singularity University Launches Innovating Women, A Campaign to Support Women’s Participation in Innovation, Science and Technology
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By Ruby Sinreich on May 3rd, 2013
HASTAC.org
This website will be down for a period of 30 to 90 minutes beginning at 7:00 am EDT Monday morning to upgrade our cloud server's operating system. We...
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By Megan Senseney on Apr 16th, 2013
Registration is now open for the 2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).Main Early Registration -- Deadline May 27, 2013* ACM/IEEE/SIG...
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By Kristan Shawgo on Mar 6th, 2013
HASTAC recently signed on as a Strategic Affiliate with the Library Publishing Coalition, a project dedicated to advancing the emerging field of...