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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The course teaches students to assess nonprofits, create a high-impact giving plan, volunteer more effectively, and use online networks and tools for good. The course also has an action learning component. The goal is for students to create an Individual Giving Action Plan to guide their future giving in a meaningful way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. Interactive Lectures by Sivasailam Thiagarajan. If you teach in higher education, you most likely will find yourself having to deliver a lecture.

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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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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. To pave the way for philanthropy to become a required course for college students and to make it as easy as possible for colleges and universities to integrate it into their curricula. 3) Giving 2.0:

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

They walk dogs at your animal shelter, ask for donations on your behalf, and spend their Saturday afternoons tutoring students. For example, you’ll need far fewer volunteers at a small lecture event than you will at a community-wide dance-a-thon. But volunteers don’t just appear out of thin air. However, some people do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

Welcome to a new ASU Lodestar Center Blog series, “Get to Know the Lodestar Center!” The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) is a student association for undergraduates interested in nonprofit careers. Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed! What events do you have planned this year?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

The event kicks off a semester long internship for students working with nonprofits. Last week I designed and facilitated a day and half session for the Nonprofit Leadership Institute co-sponsored every year by Pepperdine University Nonprofit Management program and Ventura County Community Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. I've already blogged about Kushal Chakrabati of Vittana , who gave a funny keynote as a startup social entrepreneur in the trenches. I think they are onto something.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Welcome to a new ASU Lodestar Center Blog series, “Get to Know the Lodestar Center!” She joins us just in time to start a new school year and meet a new group of wonderful nonprofit students! When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Higgins is co-founder and CEO of private investment firm RSE Ventures and a lecturer and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Question: You tell your students to think about who they want to be, not what they want to be. He was a guest shark on ABC’s Shark Tank seasons 10 and 11. Can you explain the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I did a pre-session blog post with all the annotated sources and some book recommendations. I’m very interested in the train the trainer concept, so for my own learning I have been taking many trainings to learn new instructional techniques – hopefully gaining some empathy for being a student in a train the trainer session.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Before I start, it is best to issue a few disclaimers: I am not a neuroscientist; this blog post is not written with appropriate scientific method. The best instructors and course developers are able to evaluate how their student’s learn and cater their offerings to get the best out of the situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I teach a seminar course on integrated social media strategy for international nonprofits and a session for students to learn how they leverage their professional networks for career and learning in a flexible classroom space. I also had was a guest lecturer for a Berkeley MBA Class on networks and New School for Public Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. Are students just checking their email and tuning out or does the laptop help them think? non-profit blogs???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Train the Trainer: Must Incorporate Exercises that Use Simulations. This may be mean rapid prototyping as well as front-end research. I immediately came up with twenty ways to adapt this simulation and method for a nonprofit context!

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

There was a time when that annual rite of passage known as spring break meant one thing for nearly every college student: the chance to let loose—usually in a warm climate—and party down. Indeed, a spring break sojourn was, and is, a de rigueur part of the university experience as much as dorm rooms, lecture halls and frat parties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The Flipped Classroom is mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning. It’s being done in elementary, high schools, and colleges. While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.)

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Forj

JULY 25, 2017

In our interview, Dr. Hicken and I prompted Dr. Turco to discuss editorial decisions and specific chapters she felt deserved special call out for the readers of this blog. Moreover, I would add, CME conjures up images of physicians attending lectures. Hicken and I interviewed one of the three editors who put this book together, Mary G.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I taught a seminar course on integrated social media strategy for international nonprofits and a session for students to learn how they leverage their professional networks for career and learning in a flexible classroom space. I also had the opportunity to be a guest teacher at the University of Buffalo which was amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

They focus on the content, not the design of learning activities. Learning activities might include full group discussion, spectragrams , or interactive lectures , sticky note facilitation , small group exercises or games , share pairs, or independent work (reading, working on an assessment, or poster). I do this all the time.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2015

I've been getting a taste of what I'm missing by devouring Diane Ragsdale's terrific series of blog posts about the course she is teaching on Approaching Beauty for business students at UW-Madison. Why don't we blog about it and talk about it and present conferences about it? A lot, I suspect.

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Qgiv

JULY 26, 2021

lecture, it’s easy to stress out. For universities, successful fundraising is dependent upon fostering these fond memories and making a lasting relationship with students. After all, today’s students will be tomorrow’s alumni, and alumni donations are one of the most important revenue streams a school has.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

I got to know her when she asked me to participate in her Blogging Neighbor Series 1. Currently, my day job is a graduate student at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism where I will graduate this month. Is it CNN broadcasting live, yahoo news feeds, a blog, your next door neighbor, or a guest lecturer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Human attention peaks at about about 12 minutes, particularly if it is a lecture. The learners will space out and come back to attention but not as at the high level at they did at the beginning of the presentation.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

Every Tuesday in June, this blog will feature a guest post examining some aspect of the book. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Lectures take place every second Wednesday of the month as part of our Brown Bag Lecture series. Facebook discussion board here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2005

H2O Playlists are a series of recommended books, articles, media, or blogs that collectively inform users on a subject, lecture, course, or current event. promote an exchange of ideas and expertise among professors, students, and researchers communicate and aggregate knowledge -- online and offline. through people you trust.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Both papers serve as resources for this blog post, which touches on only a few aspects of this global generosity. She has written and lectured throughout the world about various leadership and management topics for the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. Teams of Harvard Law students enrolled in Evidence will serve as the lawyers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

" The slide show shares the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). "I examined the top facebook applications for patterns of persuasion and worked with students who wrote applications installed by 16 million facebook users.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

For the past five years, the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati has honored Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday by asking a writer to give the annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture about, "Writing to Change the World." You can subscribe to her blog here. The idea is that students get to put social justice-ee ideas into practice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2024

explains Spodek, who is an Adjunct Professor at NUY and a lecturer for Columbia Business School. I assign my college and business school students one or two exercises a week and they finish in 13 weeks, or just over three months. My course will get you nearly all that experience in a fraction of the time.

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