Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. A Sickening Discovery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time! Most likely, there will be some content delivery you share during your workshop. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For them it’s really easy to take a class on Zoom, shut that window down, open up another Zoom link, and volunteer. This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them.

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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. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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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. Social Capital 2019 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

if you don't agree with the content, mark your objections in the discussion area or underneath of the disagreeable topic with your opinion. Dave Cormier has been my critical friend as I write personal reflections on the community as curriculum process we're using to develop the content through the WeAreMedia Project. the material???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

I will be leading several workshops called " Exploring Cambodian Culture " at the Sage School (preK-8 school for gifted students) during "Cluster Week." The site defines it as: CultureQuests allow students to examine, understand, and appreciate diverse cultures, including the student's own culture.

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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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2008

By doing so, it doesn't just widen the audience for a specific educational experience--it also offers a new model for how we might design and deliver interactive, varied content experiences. Instead of classrooms or mission statements, first time visitors enter 826 Valencia through the storefront Pirate Supply Store.

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Education Museum Audience Design 21

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Student Role (same as Associate, Employee, or Customer). The benefit is that the focus is student development by skills, not just training. It is a central location for students to manage their development. Students can then easily locate and enroll in training required for those skills.

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eLearning Organization Help Virtual Classroom 45

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2015

That organization is Learning to Give , a nonprofit that works, through K-12 teachers, to “spark students to learn and act for good” by providing more than 1,700 lesson plans designed to both inspire and equip students to use their hearts and minds to impact the world. Stated learning objectives. A bibliography.

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Teach Celebrate Giving Classroom 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Or is it worth more because the museum content is reaching people in distant lands who would otherwise never have engaged with the institution? Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content.

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Now, NYSCI is experimenting in a new medium, with a very tough and adult content focus. I sat down with Eric Siegel, NYSCI’s Director and Chief Content Officer, to learn more about False Conviction. While the content is really compelling, the audience and format are obviously challenging. That’s not easy.

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