Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. Learn-It-All leaders are constantly creating and re-creating themselves, their companies, and their leadership. They are information extractors.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Check out what to listen for in donor onboarding from the Agitator-Donor Voice blog. Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. Top 10 Ways to Help Your Child Readjust to Classroom Learning. They must write for the website, blog, email, social media, and more. . Stand out by being useful. Arts and culture.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 7, 2011

Just wanted to let you know that I'll be teaching my Blogging for Writers workshop May 15th from 10 AM-4 PM in the cozy Writing Salon classroom at the Strawberry Creek Design Center in Berkeley. The workshop is great for newbies, and for folks who want to breathe new life into an old blog.

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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 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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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

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. The post August Awareness: National Back to School Month appeared first on Qgiv Blog. Teach for America.

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Qgiv

JULY 25, 2022

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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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now posted – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR opinion blog , or in full below. —– I’m really excited by tools that enable digital or transmedia storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

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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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

This post was originally published on the TechSoup for Libraries blog. This just in: MathAndCoding recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $6,000 so it can produce a programming (Java) board game. Check it out ! Image: MathAndCoding. spanhidden.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 19, 2022

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. To learn more about how to create an impactful donation form, check out this blog. Incorporate Events into Your Year-Round Fundraising Plan. Request a Demo.

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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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AFP Blog

APRIL 1, 2013

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

I first started reading “Cog Dog Blog&# by Alan Levine since his first post in 2003, &# I Blog Therefore I Am.&# Although he was blogging about how to integrate social media into education and the classroom, his ideas have always been transferable to nonprofits. Alyce you will be missed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

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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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

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. Blog: How Talent for Good Can Help You Hire Your Next Salesforce Role.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Faculty engaged her both inside and outside the classroom by providing feedback on assignments, encouraging her to step outside her comfort zone to acquire new skills, recommending extracurricular activities, and checking in on the progress she’s making towards her goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free. I've been seeing comments from friends on Facebook who work for nonprofits about how they've addicted their co-workers to Facebook or what a time suck Facebook can be. So, you think nonprofits will ban Facebook in the workplace? And if you???re Update: More from Elsua

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

NRDC Launches the Solar Schools Revolution | Nathanael Greene''s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC : We can do something, though. That’s why next week, NRDC is launching Solar Schools: Powering Classrooms, Empowering Communities. Something upbeat and local and smart: put solar on our kids’ schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2006

I just discovered another great blog. It is called " Integrating ICT into the MFL Classroom " and written by Joe Dale. While browsing the useful articles and links on the side bar, I found a little wiki called " Webnotes " and created my own space. Think mindmanager wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

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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TechImpact

DECEMBER 24, 2013

In a classroom decked out with green, blue and orange balloons sat 13 young adults and a sea of their family and friends. The post 13 Students Graduate ITWorks Fall 2013 Program appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. ITWorks students graduate December 2013. As Yawson said, “ITWorks works!”.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pierre, the Client Success Manager at Greater Giving, Matt Gibson, the Premier Accounts Manager, and John Chase, Senior Manager of Client Success discussed strategies for success in this educational webinar for anyone heading back to the classroom this fall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  In the classroom, I got to hear a lot of theories as to why poverty exists - but that actually made things seem more confusing. Share Blog Action Day posts in Google Reader. I also don???t

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

The first school was Sokehs Powe School, which is on Sokehs Island next to the incredible rock pinnacle I mentioned in an earlier blog. The classrooms have doors that open to the outside, because of the warm weather. Most classrooms have desks and textbooks and all have chalkboards. Instead of windows, they have heavy screens.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

One example that I’ve blogged about before is the annual project from EpicChange: Tweetsgiving. You can see the numbers (from tweets, to dollars, to videos and more) on the EpicChange blog here. The winner will be announced here in an update at the bottom of the blog post that day. Enter the Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. It was the first book I read on blogging. The video blogging community also donated some video cameras for the school too.).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania. The students of Class Five at the school are now on Twitter and Tumblr and you can follow them all by clicking their pictures in this blog post. Why TweetsGiving? This year, the Epic Change team are working on building a technology lab there.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

One of the most important social skills they work on in my daughter's classroom? Sharing is important because a) it's just the nice thing to do and b) sharing helps build the classroom community. Sharing the book or toy gives both children the common experience that forms the classroom culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

Silvia Tolisano, Langwitches Blog Tell me about your background? Why did you start Langwitches blog? The first post in February of 2006 sums up the reasons why I started Langwitches Blog It states: ???This This Blog is an experiment. This Blog is an experiment. Langwitches.org was started as part of the Master???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

Rufina’s new job is working for an education software start up that is developing operational software for schools It is called: EnTeEf: “Enabling Teachers’ Effectiveness “ in classrooms. There are computers and large monitors in each classroom, Internet access, and of course, the software development. www.enteef.com.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

With the right incentives, students will be excited to get involved in these learning opportunities outside of the classroom, and donors will be equally happy to see the positive impact of your fundraiser on students. Request a Demo The post Engaging Your Donor Community: 5 School Fundraising Tips first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

To help students prepare for life outside of the classroom, Junior Achievement provides proven lessons that promote financial capability, work and career readiness, and business ownership. Request a Demo The post Bright Idea: Promoting Your Event on Social Media Will Help You Fill Your Seats Copy appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I attended a local unconference for nonprofits about two years ago with the intention of learning how I, as a blogger, could help local nonprofits… you & your blog were mentioned several times. I went home and immediately included your blog on my Google Reader, but somehow only just now got to clicking on your FB page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In a recent email, she described her newest project: In years past, our gratitude has been invested in changemakers from the US, Tanzania and Nepal to build classrooms, a library, a children’s technology lab, a temporary home for disabled veterans, and more. With $250, you can make room for a student in a classroom.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Putting XO Laptops Under Christmas Trees—and into Classrooms—via Amazon | Xconomy: "Under the Give One, Get One (G1G1) program, consumers can buy two laptops for $399. One will be shipped to a school of OLPC’s choice, and the other to any recipient of the buyer’s choice.

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