Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

If we pay attention to designing good meetings, we’ll be happier in the end. Like the flipped classroom model in education, you ask participants to read the reports ahead of time so you can spend more time on discussion versus presentation. She started off with some statistics that the average professional attends 13.7

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

How can the backchannel enhance our attentiveness and learning ? While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. Can the backchannel evolve past " snarkiness on parade " or " complaint festival " to improve learning and networking in conference sessions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. Dr. Mizuko Ito made the point that digital learning is happening primarily outside fo the classroom and in more of a social and play context. "We know very little about the learning that is happening outside of classrooms."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" Philthanthropy.

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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. Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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