Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. In a classroom setting, this is most clearly present in projects in which group work is assigned. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 29, 2016

She is Vice President of Training at Pursuant where she transforms individuals into confident, successful fundraisers through classroom, custom and online training. In every webinar, classroom training or custom training I lead, I get an earful about lackluster boards. Behind her smile the development director was fuming.

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Money Classroom Fundraising Script 28

Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

This guidance comes from almost a year and a half of hosting DEI experts and equitable fundraising practitioners on the Bloomerang blog and webinar series. Create a setting where people can ask questions and start discussions on the topic. Encourage Staff to Get Involved. Watch the Culture Start Shifting.

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Practice Leadership Nonprofit Culture 59

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

We’re going to cover types of eLearning assessments through the following questions: What is an eLearning assessment? Multiple-choice assessments are those that pose a question with three to five accompanying responses. Learners are asked to choose the one correct answer that aligns with the question asked.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Welcome to a new ASU Lodestar Center Blog series, “Get to Know the Lodestar Center!” When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. Asking questions like: Where am I in this place? Any secondary interests? What surrounds me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge.

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Channel Instruction Instructional Instructional Design 87

NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Throughout the day, well be living blogging sessions from MCON13 , a conference to help leaders engage the Millennial generation. It''s important to ask the question, "What thought capital do you bring to the world?" One question that came up for the panel was, "How can organizations can balance wide-scale employee involvement?"

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Work Leadership Classroom Literacy 50

BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

For help understanding this complex relationship, we turned to nonprofit consultant and author Susan Schaefer in this week’s blog. Ask questions about the job, its challenges, how that person prefers to work with the board and its individual members, and how you can be most helpful given your skill sets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

If you’ve never hosted your own peer-to-peer campaign or you just want some general tips on how to make your next one better, this guide is here to answer any questions you have. To start off, ask these questions about your peer-to-peer campaign: Will this be a purely virtual, in-person, or hybrid event ? Staff Assignments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online. Since then, I've incorporated as Vision2Lead and started teaching online for Capella University. As a faculty member for Capella University School of Business, can you tell me about some of the courses you've developed and are teaching?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

For the past two weeks, he has been teaching ??? " The course had no existing curriculum and it provided a real life laboratory for him to have the curriculum come out of the community interactions that were happening in the classroom. Dave shared his most recent observations through some reflections of his project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. This is a time pressure question! That the old metrics aren't working.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 3, 2007

Eventually, we found that traditional classroom training was rarely the solution. It's easy to teach someone how to issue an invoice. The ongoing training is not as difficult to organize as you might imagine, because someone in your organization knows the answer to almost every question someone else has. But who is the customer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Or the more elegant opening questions posed by Nesson: " Is there some magic in the Internet space that can help fight crime? The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. So for teaching robotics, he starts with an actual object.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Example - Urban Science -- example of game that teaches hwo to do urban planning. They did before/after questions - what the kids suggested before they played the game and after. The toolkit has three pieces: Web site Classroom curriculum - game intended to be used in the class for roleplaying exercise.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

You can also give teams the option to buy special boosts or phone-a-friend lifelines throughout the trivia event when they need a little extra help with an extra hard question. If you have any amateur chefs in your organization’s network, reach out to them to see if they’d be willing to teach your donors how to cook a special dish.

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