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How to get your educational nonprofit into classrooms, without leaving the office

The Nerdy NonProfit

One method for an educational nonprofit to expand its reach is by getting into the classroom remotely through the use of modern technology. Students with limited resources can benefit tremendously from remote classroom access by educational nonprofits. Virtual classroom connections. The future of remote classroom learning.

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Back to School: New Tech for the Classroom of the Future

Byte Technology

Featuring a wide field of view and highly intuitive head tracking, both connect to their respective devices and operating systems and, because they’re comfortable and light, are perfect in a classroom setting of antsy kids.

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Teacher Crowdfunder Receives iHeartMedia Support and Corporate Match for Back-to-School Fundraisers

NonProfit PRO

This year, DonorsChoose, a crowdfunding platform for teachers, donors and school districts that helps to bridge that gap, has teamed up with iHeartMedia to support public school classrooms.

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Elearning vs Classroom Training – Let’s Understand Their Pros and Cons

Gyrus

Elearning is the new and inexpensive alternative to classroom training, which is becoming more popular and preferred method among organizations. However, the debate on the effectiveness of eLearning compared to classroom training is often a subject of interest among learning and training professionals.

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5 Important Distance Learning Applications

Find the free stuff

Once teachers create their accounts, they can go ahead and create classrooms. Like Google classroom, students have an opportunity to join classrooms through a. Flipgrid This free online app enables teachers and students to record online short videos.

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11 Creative Montessori Fundraising Ideas That You Must Try Out

Donorbox

Using her knowledge of children, she designed a classroom and education that allowed children to work at their own pace and teach themselves. Maria Montessori was an Italian doctor and educator. She opened her first school in 1907 in a poor district of Rome. Many schools or organizations follow her original principles and work to […].

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Love as a workplace communication tool:  Finding resonance in the remote

Charity Village

As we know, love is not a frequently used term in our workplaces and classrooms. It is, maybe, even more tentatively used in relation to service. In this series, we have begun to illuminate the relevance of exploring the energy of love as an integral element of serving each other in our world ~ especially […].

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Nail Online Giving With These Tips and Tools

Get Fully Funded

DonorsChoose is a cool platform for classrooms where teachers post a project and people commit to giving. When a project reaches its funding goal, the company purchases all related classroom materials and ships the items to the school. Non-profits can create and customize branded donation and event registration pages.

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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

In a classroom, everyone knows who walks through the door—but sometimes in Zoom, that’s not clear. Despite their intention, the breakout doesn’t necessarily simulate the classroom experience—sometimes, when there’s no clear purpose, it feels more like being in a stuck elevator. . . Welcome everyone. Break it up—or don’t!

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

Tech Soup Blog

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. In part 2, we offer a librarian's perspective as the host for this program.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Change your LMS

Gyrus

Unlike traditional classroom learning, LMS is specialized software designed to develop, deliver, and track employee, client, and partner training.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

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10 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Gifts range from symbolic adopt-an-acre of a national park gifts to funding a classroom project in a low-income community. As a follow-up to 25 Online Gift Stores That Benefit Nonprofit s , below are 10 holiday gift programs that benefit nonprofits.

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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. I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. The flexible classroom is a large open space. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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The Nonprofit’s Guide for Alternatives to GoFundMe

Qgiv

For schools and classrooms, DonorsChoose is the best crowdfunding option. Teachers can start fundraising campaigns on the DonorsChoose platform to raise money for any classroom project that needs extra support. Donors can go to the website and find a specific school and a specific classroom project to support. DonorsChoose.

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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Client Spotlight: Union County Education Foundation

Qgiv

They primarily fulfill this mission through college scholarship programs for students and grants for classroom teachers. Union County Education Foundation is a nonprofit that’s laser focused on “supporting students and encouraging educators” in Union County Public Schools. They work hard to: .

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August Awareness: National Back to School Month

Qgiv

From tissue boxes and hand sanitizer to markers and notebook paper, every classroom needs resources to support their students and that’s where you can help. Once the school year begins, many schools and teachers have supply lists they need help to fill. Teach for America.

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6 Tips for Successful Mobile Video Assignments in the Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

AFP Blog

6 Tips for Successful Mobile Video Assignments in the Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education : However, in the three years I’ve been teaching mobile video in a course titled “Information 3.0,” even those students who initially say they are very familiar with video later admit that they learned a lot from repeated practice and application (..)

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2009 DonorsChoose.org Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

The challenge runs throughout October, with hundreds of bloggers and Twitterers rallying to support classroom requests on DonorsChoose.org. All told, they raised over $275,000 for classroom projects reaching 67,000 students in low-income neighborhoods around the country.

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Training on your new database

Robert Weiner

If you're training a lot of people, try to train in a classroom setting so everyone hears the same thing. But recognize that not everyone will be available for classroom trainings, and some people will need 1 on 1 training to understand the concepts. Test the computers and software in the classroom before every training.

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3 Nonprofits Doing Cool Things With Tech

TechImpact

Walden Woods Project uses Skype to reach classrooms. Teachers are connecting speakers from across the globe to their classrooms, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees shared the idea of connecting aid workers with students to share experiences.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. Meantime, if you’re not familiar with DonorsChoose, the idea is a simple one: It’s a site where public school teachers could post what materials they were lacking in the classroom. The cool part?

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New on SSIR: A New Tool for Digital Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

Create Digital Classrooms – Education programs—schools, after-school programs, and youth-focused nonprofit—can work with established collections in the classroom; and students can document the area around their school to create their own collections, and potentially trade collections with other schools.

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Hey Nonprofits: Here Comes Gen Z Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While many children are taught about giving to charity at home, we are seeing more and more philanthropy curriculum being integrated into the classroom. Here’s some examples of 10 big time philanthropists who are kids, including a 13 year old who raised $600,000 for charity. The Giving 2.0

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Infographic: Technology And Education

TechImpact

When researchers and education professionals started looking at technology as a means of innovation in the classroom, many thought that the future of technology’s role in education was in the use of devices. Without education, there is no future, and, unequivocally, technology is intertwined with the future of education.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Bright Idea: Year-Round Giving Can Help You Reach Your Goal

Qgiv

The idea for Veterans Heritage Project began in teacher Barbara Hatch’s classroom in 1998 when she was inspired to invite veterans to share their stories with her students. From that humble beginning, the program evolved into an after-school club and eventually became a nonprofit organization in 2009.

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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms. In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing

Bloomerang

Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. Top 10 Ways to Help Your Child Readjust to Classroom Learning. What to Do if You’re Being Bullied. 10 Ways to Keep Black People and Their Allies Out of Jail. Tips for Safely Bringing Home a Rescue Dog. How to Protect Your Pets in a Natural Disaster. Arts and culture.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized.

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Cloud for Good Partners with the Community College of Rhode Island to Create Salesforce Apprenticeship Program

Cloud 4 Good

The apprenticeship program will apply the critical knowledge our students learn in the classroom to real-world experience in the field of cloud computing services to prepare students for high-quality careers. This partnership affirms what we’ve long known about the talent of community college students.

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Incorporate These Three Learning Styles When Teaching Employees Something New

Eric Jacobsen Blog

These employees are “tell-me” learners, who thrive in classroom settings. These learners easily understand training manuals, graphs, handouts, diagrams, and visual aids. They do well in independent environments where they set their own pace. Auditory learners learn by listening. Lectures and class discussions are effective training tools.

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How #GivingTuesday Can Help Your Nonprofit Reach PhilanthroKids or Generation Z Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While some children are taught about giving to charity at home, we are seeing more and more philanthropy curriculum being integrated into the classroom. This isn’t just an isolated case – here’s an example of 10 big time philanthropists who are kids, including a 13 year old who raised $600,000 for charity. The Giving 2.0

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COVID-19 contributed to major education funding gap, report finds

Candid

Without proper investment in education, more than 20 million children are at risk of never returning to the classroom. According to Theirworld, the coronavirus pandemic at its peak forced more than 1.6 Even before COVID-19, two hundred and sixty million children were not in school,” said Theirworld president Justin van Fleet.

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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

Cloud 4 Good

In countries with high populations of Ukrainian refugees, CARE launched classrooms with Ukrainian-speaking teachers, so children can have a sense of normalcy and so mothers, grandmothers, and relatives receive a needed break from the children.

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Data and the Human Touch

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. Sophia and her family were left confused and concerned about her future in the classroom. There were several years where Kevin struggled in school because his vision was blurry and this made reading normal size print grueling.

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StopBlocking: In the workplace, not the classroom

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rob Cottingham comments on Facebook, "Think restricting employees' Internet access is a dumb idea? You aren't alone. Check out Shel Holtz's Stop Blocking campaign ! Cartoon from Social Signal, by Rob Cottingham. See also: Fear 2.0. Notes from the Real World. Social Media Adoption: Line between individual and organizational.

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Visually Engage Your Constituents with InFocus

Tech Soup Blog

InFocus innovates collaboration solutions that drive successful, visual teamwork in video walls, control rooms, conference rooms, classrooms, and workstations throughout the world. With the digital displays that InFocus provides through TechSoup, you can communicate and collaborate in meetings, presentations, classrooms, and offices.