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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

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For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

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Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. The syllabus includes: An overview of today’s digital measurement landscape.

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

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Building on this analysis, later that same year, Candid and Grantmakers of Oregon and SW Washington (GOSW) issued a report on grantmaking to communities of color in Oregon documenting “that philanthropy was part of the problem.” Program support for the Thursdays@Three show, including equipment improvements and promotional materials.

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Tech Tools to Benefit the Spanish-Language Community

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At TechSoup, we know that many nonprofits and libraries serve Spanish-speaking communities in everything from teaching English as a second language, to financial and educational services, to local family- and health-related programs. Business analysis programs to help you report on and analyze your organization's data.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. I prefer flexible space but that isn’t always possible.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Illustration by Beth Kanter. That’s the theory at least.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

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The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign. possibly related classroom projects??? Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly

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