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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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At AFP Lead in Houston, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance students prepare for leadership liftoff

ASU Lodestar Center

AFP Lead is a national conference where the best and brightest fundraisers gather to learn and share about their successes and trials in the nonprofit sector. I was one of the lucky students who was able to travel and learn so much from the professionals at the conference. Though the conference has passed, the hard work continues.

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

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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. Social Learning can best be defined as working with others to understand ideas, concepts, and procedures. The World is quite plainly at our fingertips.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Do you talk to people sitting next to you on planes?

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PowerMyLearning: Free Online Education Games and Videos for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

CFY was founded by Elisabeth Stock in 1999 with the mission of helping low-income students do better in school by improving their learning environments at home. Since then, the organization has partnered with hundreds of schools and provided digital learning resources to 50,000 families in five cities. How It Works.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. She previously worked with the Washington, D.C., Around Gender.

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Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process

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Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process. It appears that the work of a learning professional is never done. In order to establish an effective learning program, there must be a great consideration for the future needs of the day to day business, and the workforce themselves. Effectiveness of Content.

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