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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges. The NMC’s annual reports that highlight emerging technologies and their impact on the education sector over the next five years include NMC Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition and the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition and were published this spring.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur.

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Taking 18 Minutes Day Towards A Year-Long Focus

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To be successful in either teaching or learning, you have to slow down. I’ve been immersed in writing about measurement and testing instructional frameworks this year. I’m also interested in content curation and have been practicing it and teaching it, but want to take that to the next level.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Setting Up To-Do Notes in QuickBooks

Tech Soup

Gregg Bossen teaches QuickBooks Made Easy , a live seminar program designed exclusively for nonprofit organizations around the country. In this post, you'll get step-by-step instructions showing you how to add To-Do Notes in QuickBooks. In QuickBooks 2012 and before, double-click the customer in the Customer Center.

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. According to the ALA report, 21 st.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

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In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they'd need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. Installation Date: August 24, 2012. Like most of our test sites, they didn't read instructions until half way through the process. Over time we refined our instructions.

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