Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

I had just read a paper about the LINCOS project in Central America, so this was fresh in my mind. To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. With old class photos, you can leverage memes like “ Throw Back Thursday , like in this example from Reshet Ramah , a network of alumni from across the globe. ” 3. Many schools probably have wonderful archival photos – it’s a gold mine for engagement.

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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. Opened in 2006, the school offers computer classes every morning utilizing ten donated laptops and a few older desk tops.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

It was there that she discovered her passion for teaching others: "When I was working with kids with autism or ADHD, something happened within me where I identified with their experiences. Not every student can be reached in person. New Heights has used Citrix GoToMeeting to connect teachers and tutors with students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above. One of the students asked if Google was the best search engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. Each chapter offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, and in-schools programs -- all free of charge -- for children, classes, and schools with particular interests or particular needs.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." New Heights provides families with tutoring services , a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes. New Heights also uses Citrix GoToMeeting from TechSoup to connect teachers and tutors with students.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year. You can subscribe to her blog here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Collaborate with peers from across North America who understand your challenges. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Kansan City, KA/ $625. General / @AHPIntl.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. Research classes/workshops in a skill I want to learn. My advice: 1. You'll never know if you enjoy doing something by thinking about it.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Such a mission deserves best-in-class technology that facilitates and empowers the organization’s work in any way it can. Success Story: The University of Alabama at Birmingham: Transforming Student Journeys Through Salesforce. Success Story: Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. They will be doing a variety of work tasks (not just social media and networks).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I could practically teaching this class. In America, that is definitely not how most of the police officers that I have spoken with would expect somebody to act at a traffic stop. ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. They had to deal with their own students and their own curriculum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

We can no longer be America-centric. We need to make this bilingual, and we need to really encourage more artists from Latin America." I remember having to walk into his house and saying, "You know, dude, I'm going to teach you how to paint a mural. Every single topic you can imagine was on there. So, we did. You know what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

When Alyson Kapin asked me if I was interested in doing a session for WomenWhoTech, I very much wanted to do a session that could showcase and hear from women in places outside of North America. I am grateful to Alyson, NTEN and other Summit sponsors for the opportunity to experiment with having a Global virtual discussion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

and looking at how our issues are linked across race, class, gender, country, origin, religion, everything. And what I always tell the students that I work with is, number one, stay in community. It might be teaching. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. Do not isolate. It's so easy.

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