Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This isn’t a way of thinking routinely instructed in underserved schools. Some of these challenges include a lack of funding for schools, a lack of access to high-quality educational resources and opportunities, and a lack of support for students and teachers. So what can the nonprofit sector do to help increase accessibility?

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

Our new guide provides helpful and instructive case studies to illustrate how other funders have taken such steps. . For example, the guide shares how savvy education funders are considering the impact of learning loss on students who every year miss more and more days of instruction due to the climate crisis.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Launching in February 2004 for students at Harvard University it quickly became a popular site and expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy Leagues, and Stanford University. Once Facebook conquered colleges the now web-giant with more than 900 million active monthly users moved on to support high schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Everyaction

MAY 14, 2018

For universities searching for ways to both grow students' engagement on campus and develop their education and participation as active citizens, voter registration programs have become an increasingly popular activity. Instructions for where to find voter registration material on campus.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education. Inspired by Malala and Ziauddin Yousafzai’s early activism, Malala Fund launched the Education Champions Network to identify and scale the work of local educators and advocates. Syrian refugees and Lebanese students learn for free. . .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In particular, they should focus on equipping women with the skills and knowledge they need to actively participate in the green economy, work for climate action, and prepare for emergencies. The 10 instructions are simple, as befits LEGO’s typical style, but incisive. The Rockefeller Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. ” So, I like to share a few of my favorites that I have inspired me in my instructional/training practice. This six-step instructional model is called “ENGAGE.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

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. These are the people who will get the ECB ball rolling and actively manage the ECB process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

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. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Classy

JUNE 15, 2021

While the step-by-step instructions on using Classy will be most useful if you have a Classy account, we encourage anyone to leverage our courses on fundraising best practices. And to help keep your finger on the pulse, the Coming Soon section will show you which courses are in active development. . Optimizing Donation Pages.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 5, 2023

Volunteers should have clear instructions on how to reach someone from the organization quickly and efficiently. Before training, organizations should develop a plan that outlines the topics that will be covered, processes for execution, the activities that will reinforce learning, and the overall goal of the plan. Transparency.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8% We also continue to add books from volunteers, staff and outsourcers through scanning and proofing, including student requests. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

On Monday, Rheingold delivered the UC’s Regents Lecture , “Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy” prior to working with a group of students in a seminar and launching a process to co-construct a peeragogy handbook/sourcebook. Rheingold published this post as a backdrop to his Monday evening talk.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

It often surprises people when I mention that education accounts for fully one-fifth of nonprofit activity , second only to human services. PowerMyLearning is a new, free online resource that has educational games, videos, and other activities for elementary, middle-school, and high school-aged students. How It Works.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

Virtual options can be particularly helpful when fundraising for education, as they allow you to reach out to supporters of your students who may be further away, such as aunts and uncles, grandparents, and family friends. They also give you a unique opportunity to get the family members of those students to make a recurring donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. We have an array of copyright exceptions that cover the activities of archives and libraries, especially fair use and the copyright exception that benefits people with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Unfortunately, these TPMs create collateral damage in the form of disabling or hindering activities that are generally permitted. It’s allowed in many formats to present the text not in logical reading order, but completely out of order with instructions to the device on how to make the content “look” on the page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Peer Assist brings together a group of peers to elicit feedback on a problem, project, or activity, and uses insights from the participants’ knowledge and experience.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Two recent events have got me thinking about pranks and unauthorized activities in museums. After some silliness, engagement, and confusion, they were instructed to leave. Two students, Jenny Burrows and Matt Kappler, created an unauthorized ad campaign for the Smithsonian as part of a school project.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Additionally, 30 million library users reported going to the library for employment-related activities. The good news is that digital literacy is becoming part of lesson plans for K-12 students in public schools. Additionally, some students don't have digital access at home. The Role of Schools. Microsoft YouthSpark Hub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

posted by Kelly Proulx , MNpS Student & Research Technician, Arizona State University. Some of this increase can be attributed to earlier retirement, leading senior citizens to be more active. This may be as simple as providing written instructions to a volunteer who has difficulty hearing. Welcome to Research Friday !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. is done by students during class hours, with a teacher’s supervision and hands-on input; and what was once the core of the classroom experience (teacher lectures) is now absorbed at home via online resources.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

On Monday, when I landed, I went straight from the airport to meet Leng Sopharath, the college student our family sponsors through the Sharing Foundation's program. She showed me her room, her photo album, talked about her family, her daily activities, her job goals and how much she appreciated the opportunity to attend the university.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The concept of distributed ledgers has usefulness outside of its thriving use in financial transactions and currency speculation, and it is actively triggering innovation in healthcare IT. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.

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Candid

JUNE 14, 2023

It’s critical you read, re-read, and follow the instructions. You’ll also need to ensure that the line items in your budget match the activities outlined in your broader grant proposal. An activity is a specific thing you are planning to do as part of your program. Activities are plans; outputs are counts; outcomes are changes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Join us at ILA to learn how to break through the challenges of shifting practices, advocate for all students, and make a difference in and out of the classroom. General / @ILAToday. 10/10/2019.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources. We look for social applications of IT that will make a major impact on social sector activities. serving students with print disabilities. What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This is leading to new manners of participation, such as learning, the introduction of microlearning modules, and self-guided instruction. The ways in which people learn are being considered universally in the production of learnings and how users interact. Topic 2: Where is the LMS Industry Going?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. There was no specific instruction with the dots.

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