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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

After two years of teaching online in a variety of formats and structures, one thing that I’ve realized is that when the camera is off, people may be long gone—or at least disengaged. . Even worse, sometimes they stay connected and just get bored—fatigued by the static environment. So, how does that translate to the Zoom Room?

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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

Protecting the environment or cutting taxes for billionaires?” Tectonica Ned Howey, founder The constant flux between crisis and calm that nonprofits in the advocacy space experience is not only expected, but also presents an opportunity to achieve the change stated in their missions.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication?

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

Amy Sample Ward

The good news is that the myth that you can’t make systemic change quickly is just that, a myth. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills – change their behaviors through games. That said, there are structures within government that can handle risk.

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Exploring the Role of Apprenticeship in Today’s Economy with Tal Frankfurt + Robert Lerman

Cloud 4 Good

Additionally, apprenticeships are more structured and skill-specific than internships. Salesforce is a perfect example of a platform that’s powering business, but is very rarely taught in college classrooms. It’s important to note that an apprenticeship differs from an internship in a few key ways. million new jobs and $1.6

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’ve been a fan of the Games for Change Festival since I first attended in 2006. GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. In Education. Around Gender.

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

Gyrus

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.