Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

Rufina’s new job is working for an education software start up that is developing operational software for schools It is called: EnTeEf: “Enabling Teachers’ Effectiveness “ in classrooms. There are computers and large monitors in each classroom, Internet access, and of course, the software development. www.enteef.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In a recent email, she described her newest project: In years past, our gratitude has been invested in changemakers from the US, Tanzania and Nepal to build classrooms, a library, a children’s technology lab, a temporary home for disabled veterans, and more. With $250, you can make room for a student in a classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods. It resonated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

I first started reading “Cog Dog Blog&# by Alan Levine since his first post in 2003, &# I Blog Therefore I Am.&# Although he was blogging about how to integrate social media into education and the classroom, his ideas have always been transferable to nonprofits. He writes in a humorous, authentic style, about geeky topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2005

I'm working with a newly established community technology center that is housed in an after-school program on an instructional technology plan for lab. One area we're looking at is digital video, so have been madly reviewing educational resources and options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2015

While many children are taught about giving to charity at home, we are seeing more and more philanthropy curriculum being integrated into the classroom. Here’s some examples of 10 big time philanthropists who are kids, including a 13 year old who raised $600,000 for charity. The Giving 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Donors Choose ([link] for example, allows people to pool small donations to help enterprising teachers get funding for classroom projects. A specific classroom in rural Ohio that needs $200 for a science project. Some of the most promising innovations in the non-profit space are using substantially similar models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The photo was my classroom. This beautiful retreat center is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains and offers professional development on a wide range of leadership, wellness, and other topics. This past week they opened up the campus to nonprofits and I was lucky enough to be part of the faculty to teach a workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Over the past two years, from the gratitude of thousands, this global event has built two classrooms and a library in Arusha, Tanzania, where the twitterkids, led by local changemaker Mama Lucy Kamptoni, learn and grow at one of the best primary schools in their country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art classrooms. The workshops are included in the price of an Interactive, Gold, or Platinum Badge. Nonprofit Social Media Managers Enter The C-Suite: Peer To Peer. Sunday, March 10 3:30PM – 6:00PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. I just downloaded and got ten karma points and was able to support a classroom without doing anything - not even getting up from computer. Update: Some quick testing notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The Flipped Classroom is mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning. It’s being done in elementary, high schools, and colleges. While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I used to buy bags of Egg McMuffins on my way to work and, before school started, I’d hand them out to kids who stopped by my classroom. When I taught high school English, I saw first-hand the negative effects of hunger on children in school. You call yourself activist, what are some causes or ideas that you are standing up for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Caminos, when they have a classroom, provides tech training to low-income Latina immigrants--and only for women. We walked into our classrooms to find that all of. Staff of this org are friends of mine (and neighbors).any I donated $100 and plan to donate more. The fire yesterday evening ravaged. our building.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

My virtual colleague, Alan Levine has been exploring the use of YouTube, Flickr, and other free tools in the classroom for the K-12 Online Conference. Alan, I can't wait until you come back from your session and share the thinking with your peers about how to use this stuff in the classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

I see it as a very large classroom (certainly a venue I???m The Nonprofit University blog has just posted its first post! m approaching my new blog like it???s s a virtual Hyde Park Corner and I???ve ve never lacked soap boxes to climb upon. m familiar with), where I throw out ideas and have people react.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. My ultimate dream would be to send Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging over to the Sharing Foundation's fledging computer school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I teach a seminar course on integrated social media strategy for international nonprofits and a session for students to learn how they leverage their professional networks for career and learning in a flexible classroom space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. Last week, I did a workshop for a board of a secondary school interested in taking the first steps into social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

If you are curious Cambodia New Year, you can learn about it here - a curriculum and materials I created for other adoptive parents so they could bring the Khmer celebration into their children's classrooms. I need to brush up, especially how to drap the white prayer scarf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2006

It is called " Integrating ICT into the MFL Classroom " and written by Joe Dale. I just discovered another great blog. While browsing the useful articles and links on the side bar, I found a little wiki called " Webnotes " and created my own space. Think mindmanager wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. I was frustrated, but I also knew it was a frustration felt by teachers all over the city.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I am fascinated by the possibilities of blogging in the foreign language classroom. Culturally authentic material for the foreign language classroom used to be scarce are now readily available, only a click or an RSS feed away. The first post in February of 2006 sums up the reasons why I started Langwitches Blog It states: ???This

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. Spend some time at the beginning of your presentation explaining to your audience how you will respond to the twitter stream and audience members are more likely to use it responsibly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings. The photo captures a improvised moment in one of the sessions of modeling “ Learning Over Each Other’s Shoulders &# as Nancy White likes to call it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

In the classroom, I got to hear a lot of theories as to why poverty exists - but that actually made things seem more confusing. t claim to have all the answers - in fact, part of this journey is about putting my classroom knowledge to the test. t really sure what I could do. I also don???t s why this project is called ???uncultured???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

At the StarFish School, where we had only an afternoon to do the training and smaller number of participants, so we did a shorter, briefer opener and an opening that Star Fish teachers use in their classrooms to build community. We stood in a circle and each person got to introduce themselves and say how they were feeling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

" My colleague, Vicky Davis , is leading a session at the K-12 Online Conference on wikis in the classroom. If you want to read up on wikis before the online event, I suggest you start with the Techsoup article called " Exploring the World of Wikis." The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

We need to encourage the development of easy to use, safe, classroom environments that can be controlled by the teacher but also allow students to enter 3D virtual environments. If we do not advocate for effective classroom measures in second life, we will have to take it as it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2006

It will offer a continuing look at how new technology such as wikis, blogs, vlogs, RSS, podcasts, social networking sites, and the always-on culture of the Internet are impacting teacher and students' lives both inside and out of the classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Like the flipped classroom model in education, you ask participants to read the reports ahead of time so you can spend more time on discussion versus presentation. Many times meetings fail because there is not a clear reason to have a meeting – so Andrea suggested, “Consider not meeting.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2006

Some of these might actually be useful in a classroom context. This is new flickr toy where you can make a poster with up 2-36 photos from flickr - yours or anyone elses. If you follow the link to Fd's Flickr Toys, you'll find many different ways to waste lots of time playing with flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

I will be working with K-2 students and most likely be in a one-computer classroom that does not have an Internet connection. So, for starters I'm focusing on the content, instruction, and learning tasks and have these available on my site, Cambodia4kids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2005

Nancy White has a great post about "Blog as Classroom, Playground, Mind Trip" I went directly to the playground, a place to experiment and learn how to incorporate web 2.0 technologies into teaching practice. that was part of a workshop on Rip Mix Learn , a variation on Rip Mix Feed. into their organization's missions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

This is a test to see if I've made onto the wireless network in the classroom at the iLaw conference. We're waiting for the first session to begin, Intellectual Property Protection for Code. The speakers are William Fisher and Jonathan Zittrain. I'm noticing that many laptops here have bumper stickers. Technorati Tags: ilaw

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