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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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This blog post was originally published on 12/11/2021. During the pandemic, these local education leaders have been critical in identifying and launching initiatives that not only assist girls in continuing their education during school closures, but also help them get back in the classroom when schools reopen.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Smaller sized content also enables them to absorb and retain the training courses in a better way. Mobile learning.

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Gyrus

APRIL 26, 2016

Let us look at some of the common misconceptions about mobile learning or m-learning through this blog: Mobile Learning Means Learning via Mobile Phones. If your current content is not mobile friendly, you cannot replicate it for mobile learning purpose. as mobile learning tools. Mobile Learning Signifies Learning on the Move.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter. Your design is not just about content. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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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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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Whether it be addressing the blended learning mix we provide, the content we promote directly, or the style in which our learners process information; there are countless decisions that we can make, and the answer that we provide today, may not be what is most effective weeks from now. Effectiveness of Content. Conclusion. References.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. In a classroom setting, this is most clearly present in projects in which group work is assigned. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 2002, a nonprofit technology colleague introduced me to blogging and set up a blog on his server. Later, he introduced me to Typepad where I started Beth’s Blog in 2003. My blog started as my Trainer’s Learning Journal – a place to jot down practice and content related to building nonprofit technology capacity!

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

Scheduling that same instructor, the classroom, the projector he/she is using, a laser pointer and a shared laptop… priceless. The ability to generate content directly into the LMS not only exists but is being highlighted on this blog post. The number one item on our cool stuff list is Resource Management.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. We often use them to add in extra content we couldn’t get into the label or assess people’s learning. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. Museums get our visitors for an hour or two if we’re lucky.

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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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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Editor's Note: This blog was originally published in eLearning Industry in May 2016, and has been reproduced here with permission. Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Norman Reiss suggests on his blog “. Check out their top 15 resources for finding or creating the finances needed in the classroom ! Content strategy isn’t just a fancy term invented by consultants according to Michaela Hackner from Forum One Communications. The conference will be held in Chicago from June 18th to the 20th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Ivan Boothe pointed me over to a blog post by Lina with an intriguing tweet " Transmedia activism with a co-creation network." Transmedia storytelling is storytelling by a number of decentralized authors who share and create content for distribution across multiple forms of media. very insightful.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. Since most educational games struggle to find logical ways to be integrated into a classroom, Ovos took a different approach by creating a game based solely on curriculum-based material. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

A good training begins with igniting the participants curiosity and passion for the content during the first 15-30 minutes. The goal is to get everyone comfortable, thinking about the content, and ready to enhance their preexisting knowledge. A Good Training Starts with A Good Opening.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Outside of that one big-picture item, much of the rest of the content can focus on any topics that reqire board decisions or strategic input. Developing agendas and running meetings might seem simple, but between content, culture, and keeping the agenda within time constraints, it can be a difficult job. Decision points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Tactical Philanthropy Blog notes that the next Giving Carnival will focus on Fundraising for Nonprofits and will be hosted by Gayle Roberts. Please blog amoung yourselves." Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0. young people???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Prepare your garden bed: The garden bed is the actual page or section on the wiki where you want to get people to contribute content or where you'll place it after you scoop it from the outposts. In addition, this is how we let people know about new places to contribute: Blog Posts: I do an overview post giving context and the questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. Then, I encourage beginners to ask their questions and acknowledge that the content may feel fast-paced - and that's why I've included tutorials on the wiki.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. On the other end of the spectrum, there are uses of technology to create unique "co-create" opportunities, if not open opportunities, where content can be made available through APIs and syndication for others to use. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

We heard a lot about the use of crowdsourcing, the latest Twitter apps, and why content strategy is so important. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. This blog post was originally published on her blog. And that will make all the difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

" I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. I followed the profile to the blog and discovered Brian Lamb's Abject Learning. to Change The World.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space. a way to catalyze conversations among diverse people, mediated by their objects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

They are not content to just sit and click. Isadora Faber, 14-year-old Brazilian student who launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats. Communicate more frequently in shorter bursts of “snackable content”.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. They are not content to just sit and click. Communicate more frequently in shorter bursts of “snackable content”. This post originally appeared on Beth Kanter’s blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. NpTech Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

While doing research on the Web for the course content, I stumbled upon an article called " A Field Guide to Cross Cultural Projects " which lead me to an educational technology integration model called CultureQuest.

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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. With things like Blogs, Wikis, and social networking in general, institutions and organizations don???t non-profit blogs???

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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 24, 2007

I follow Vicky Davis's blog, CoolCat Teacher Blog (one of my favorites, in fact her feed is in my "Circle of the Wise" folder) and she is also a twitter contact I follow. Lately, almost all her twittering is about her new obsession, the Horizon Project as well as a few blog posts. Social Networking. Mobile Phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms. Thanks for blogging.

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