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. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning. Nothing like first-person accounts.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

When you can identify who you’re speaking to, what their perspective is, and the knowledge level they bring to the table, you can design your presentations to be more appealing and relevant. This can help you think intentionally about how to lay out your presentation without getting distracted by the design elements. . Pattie Schutte.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

The group also paid attention to group energy and taking brief breaks. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms. How many of us pay attention to the relationship between physical space and our productivity ?

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Qgiv

JULY 25, 2022

While crowdfunding campaigns are generally led by one person or a small group of people looking to leverage their personal networks to raise money, peer-to-peer campaigns invite many participants to fundraise on behalf of the organization. For schools and classrooms, DonorsChoose is the best crowdfunding option. DonorsChoose.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

MathAndCoding created a curriculum for the library based on the programming language Scratch , a language developed especially for kids by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Lab. " Library-Specific Curriculum. It has a simple drag-and-drop interface that allows kids to visualize basic programming concepts.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

The university now uses the collaboration tool to host classroom discussions, develop new courses, and support students — both on campus and online. Slack automatically organizes students into smaller course-group channels with industry mentors to help ensure their success. Collaboration from anywhere is key to their mission.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. Then one of the last arriving students, typing their name into the designated row, somehow deleted the whole roll sheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate. The term Peeragogy came fluttering through my network, like a butterfly, and it caught my interest. It resonated. Rheingold published this post as a backdrop to his Monday evening talk.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 29, 2022

From classrooms to districts to state houses across America, they are reimagining education to realize the day when every child has an equal opportunity to learn, lead, thrive, and co-create a future filled with possibility.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Our group also visited Starfish Impact School , where we learned about their work to ensure indigenous girls have equal access to education and provided mentoring and training for young women graduates of Starfish. We kept doing this until people had a chance to have conversations with about dozen people in the group.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 30, 2022

In the same EU LGBT survey, more than eight in 10 of all respondents in each LGBT sub-group had witnessed negative comments or conduct during their time in school. A common challenge for the community and many minority groups is stereotyping. Most importantly, be open-minded — no one person is the same.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. These are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on “awesome projects.” . Areas served: Worldwide. New Earth Foundation. Areas served: US.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 31, 2022

Students move ahead by mastering content, not by spending a prescribed number of hours in a classroom. It’s absolutely critical to know this information so that we can design the College around our students’ needs and ensure our marketing and communications efforts reflect their experiences, goals, and needs. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. Then create an advisory group to steer the process. Work together to learn about evaluation, design studies, strengthen each other and celebrate successes. Implement ECB strategies.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

Strategy #2- Design Your Hybrid Venue With Focus on Event Needs. Therefore, when planning your event marketing strategies , make sure your event planning team pays a good amount of attention to the event design. Also, consider the room design layout. Within each group, you’ll also have tiered access.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogotá. Share Tweet.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

Strategy #2- Design Your Hybrid Venue With Focus on Event Needs. Therefore, when planning your event marketing strategies , make sure your event planning team pays a good amount of attention to the event design. Also, consider the room design layout. Within each group, you’ll also have tiered access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Sort of like embedded giving that Lucy Bernholz talks about, I think. The application is well designed and is fun. It might get more motivated if it had the leaderboard design that FourSquare has. The design seems to encourage me to translate my Karma to donations every time I earn them. Update: Some quick testing notes.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Built on our Martus technology, Mobile Martus is designed to bring secure data collection, storage, and backup closer to activists working in the field. But what about everybody else?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

Educators can also create "classes," which are groupings of students (one to 1,000) that they want to share playlists with. It is designed not only to enhance instruction in the classroom, but also to extend learning beyond the classroom. International NGOs and Libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? 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

MARCH 31, 2014

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start!

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. CLIMBING SACRED MOUNTAIN. MOTHER NATURE.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Group Collaboration with Feedback. A collaborative assessment involves learners completing a task alongside their peers and receiving feedback on their personal efforts within the group. Of the various assessment methods in this list, group collaboration with feedback is easily the least quantitative method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. Year in Review.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I strongly recommend you read her whole blog back to the beginning (it's not too onerous) and check out the evolution of her experimental format, which she has deployed in museums, libraries, and classrooms in the US and Australia. Here's how it works: Michelle partners with an organization, institution, or group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

If you want to make it a hybrid event, simply have a group of folks come to an in-person dinner on location while having meals delivered to a few others watch the virtual version over a live stream. Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 29, 2014

The opportunities for learning and networking were at a higher level than I have had in the classroom. It was really cool to be able to talk with other students about their campus groups and to be able to talk about what is working for them and what’s not working. posted by Lyn McDonough , Program Coordinator Sr.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2009

Last month, TechSoup and Adobe announced the winners of the Show Your Impact Design Contest. You can see the first featured group in this earlier post. They decided to create a book and a video that is provided cost-free to hundreds of schools across the country. "We read more.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 24, 2010

The project that I volunteered at with fifteen other Convio employees was a classroom makeover for a local Austin school, Gus Garcia Middle School. As students passed by our classroom throughout the day while we were working I came to understand how important Communities in Schools is to each of them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

She joins us just in time to start a new school year and meet a new group of wonderful nonprofit students! This includes visual arts, sculpture, paintings, murals, as well as better designed buildings, parks, and shared spaces and projects to foster relationships and understanding. Meet Anne. What is your main area of interest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. Like GoFundMe, Booster lets you to raise money for any cause by designing and selling your own t-shirt.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Xperience Design Project. Nonprofit Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

What: The art of social instructional design. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. We had similar spread for those having experience designing and delivering trainings. I think you can design around it. Social Instructional Design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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