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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . It doesn’t require internet access. Tabshoura is an award-winning e-learning platform that helps.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

A focus group participant with an LGBTQ+ youth organization said: [Digital technology] is…really beneficial to reach out to the disabled community. Going digital, perhaps unsurprisingly, turned out to be an effective way to reach younger crowds, the “digital natives.” Failure to engage the digital immigrants.

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7 Ideas for Virtual Back to School Events

AccelEvents

You can shorten the class earlier that day to make things easier for the families. Consider playing an ice breaker game , introducing everyone, and showing the family your “virtual” classroom. . You can consider spicing up the virtual with a Bitmoji virtual classroom , which can be fun and relatively easy to make.

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7 Ideas for Virtual Back to School Events

AccelEvents

You can shorten the class earlier that day to make things easier for the families. Consider playing an ice breaker game , introducing everyone, and showing the family your “virtual” classroom. . You can consider spicing up the virtual with a Bitmoji virtual classroom , which can be fun and relatively easy to make.

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PowerMyLearning: Free Online Education Games and Videos for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

Since then, the organization has partnered with hundreds of schools and provided digital learning resources to 50,000 families in five cities. Educators can also create "classes," which are groupings of students (one to 1,000) that they want to share playlists with. Kellogg Foundation. International NGOs and Libraries.

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