Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

I got my first real job in a museum (at the Guggenheim) after a life-changing internship. But now, as I counsel my university students, I feel it unethical to recommend the same path I took. Is unpaid participation in the life and operations of a museum always a bad thing? It''s probably a path you had to navigate too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. I am fascinated by the possibilities of blogging in the foreign language classroom. s webmaster. Why did you start Langwitches blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

It is a story about a tree that gives everything to a young boy at every stage of his life. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

I was attempting to summarize a three-way dialogue about Second Life from three brilliant thinkers with differing views about the value of SL. We also must remember that there is no such thing as second hand learning -- second life learning is first person learning. This morning, Bertie , sent me a pointer to this article.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's August, school's back in session, and besides traffic being a pain in the you-know-where again, children are back in the classroom with their thinking caps on. Jump Rope For Heart and Hoops For Heart are two service learning projects that educate and create awareness among teachers, parents and students ages 7-14.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Is this my life? ;-). The role of the Journalist Panel is: These journalists will be given priority access to the teachers and on a permission basis will be allowed to interview students with teachers present. The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers. This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them. The Big Theme and Conclusion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Our writing workshops focus on autobiographical writing and storytelling, and we actually do a lot of storytelling performance and theater with the students. It's really neat because the students work on one autobiographical story for two weeks, and at the end they have one complete story that they can call their very own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why DonorsChoose.org is a Fundraising Game Changer: Charles Best started Donorschoose.org in 2000 out of his own frustrations of being a teacher in the Bronx who didn’t have the supplies he needed to teach effectively. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Momentary discomfort is worth the life change that, that gift will create, isn’t it? You teach people how to relate to you. But what matters more is you want to inspire people to make a difference, right, to make life change possible. You’re helping to change lives of these students.” Look at all of you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

The more we teach and judge based on laws, the less students and graduates will try to break them. This may sound reasonable; any life choice is a personal decision. The students designed and fabricated prototype pieces of an upcoming exhibition. The graduate programs don't just offer false promises to students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

In 1998, during the embryonic stages of the project, this focus turned to a concept called "Reverence for Life," a non-demonational philsophy of self-development which had taken root in Jamaica's prisons. So for teaching robotics, he starts with an actual object. My wife teaches high school and they don't like it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources. Most likely similar to those pondered by the CDC as they launched their Second Life effort last fall ).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life. These young students submitted illustrated storybooks to a student art exhibit at the SLHC last year. One book was about farm life and the other about a knight and his dragon.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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. You can also get in contact with any chefs at beloved local restaurants to see if they’d be willing to teach as well. Virtual talent show. Virtual “Around the World” festival.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Dance-a-Thon You and your staff work tirelessly to bring your nonprofit’s mission to life. In this image, a group of adults sit in a classroom watching a teacher’s presentation. Silent Retreat Offer a tranquil escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life by hosting a silent retreat.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

Put the time and the resources in to bring the story to life. We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program. Please visit the site to view this video). How have you looked for great stories?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. I highly recommend volunteering with young people, whether they are as little as a kindergartner, or as old as a college student. I find it helps keep life in perspective. public school volunteer education donation

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I formed Community Networking Technologies (CNT) with another law student (Rachel Ogdie, now my wife Yeh!) We taught our NetCorps students skills such as running meetings, performing needs assessments, project management, etc. Many of our students ended up staying in the sector after they graduated. and a bunch of volunteers.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The Department of State should develop a Young Diplomats Program which would provide students with the opportunity to advance their understanding of the core topics and issues relevant to the foreign service. The program would run for the entire academic school year and rely on long-term engagement with students. Vote for this Idea].

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Contrasting that rich human narrative with the kind of gleamy tweaky technology narrative that was emerging from the NISE-NET meeting made me realize that generally speaking, science museums ignore many of the aspects of life that are the most resonant--mortality, sex, humor, tragedy, pity, joy.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Costello: So, in his new book, Reich is joining with some other adults and, like any good parents, they’re trying to steer the aspiring techies in their classroom toward a healthier and wiser destination. I’m a professor in the computer science department at Stanford, and in previous life, I was an engineer at Google for many years.

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