Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

Take for example, Fulbright Finland where I did a workshop with their staff about personal branding and professional networking. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. However, I don’t always have that opportunity because many times nonprofit workshops are hosted at conferences at hotels. What to do? Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. The flexible classroom is a large open space. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning.

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MAY 17, 2011

The research indicates that the human brain, on average, has the capacity to pay attention for about 10-12 minutes within an hour. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start!

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