Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

Stephen Downes points me to a post from the brilliant Vicky Davis: The Frontier of 3D Education. She gives the context of 3d Web, the standards, describes the drawbacks to second life for education and provides some examples of the possibilities, including videos from YouTube for those whose computers can't handle the Second Life client.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Some who finish have found that there is very little applicability of their education to a good career. So, even if a student is attending a lower-priced college, such as a community college, all that time being put in could have been used towards earning money, so that comes at a cost to the learner.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. 8 Ways College Students Can Save the Environment Every Day. Top 10 Ways to Help Your Child Readjust to Classroom Learning. 5 Ways Theater Can Create Empathy and Fuel Democracy. Environmental. 5 Easy Ways to Save Your Planet. Health services. 5 Ways to Organize.

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Everyaction

APRIL 25, 2018

In this blog series, we'll be focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. First up, we're covering the Student Activities office - stay tuned to hear about Admissions, Alumni Engagement, and more!

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication? Someone with a sense of humor who can see the big-picture to promote a positive environment and ground the experience. Consider reaching out to local universities to tap into departments, professors, and students for consulting, resources, and education.

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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. With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

In Education. GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail. Learning Styles. With new media comes challenges.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. Curiosity got the better of me, and that’s how I met Bob Whicker, a K-12 Education Development Executive for Apple.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 16, 2014

There’s probably a specific classroom you remember from those earlier days, and a teacher who left a huge impact on your life. They’re no stranger to a fun and engaging learning environment. And PENCIL, Inc. is full of those life-changing, one-of-a-kind people. First up, we interviewed Ben LeBeaux and Sara Clough of PENCIL, Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love! Our writing workshops focus on autobiographical writing and storytelling, and we actually do a lot of storytelling performance and theater with the students.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. Is it an education that would make me a better person? I think one of the things that keep museums fresh, welcoming, and non-didactic is the fact that most exhibit designers, museum educators, and conservators come from a variety of backgrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. New learning environment puts games at the center. What does the next generation of learning environments look like?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. They understand why organic farming is important or why school gardens, why they should be a part of education.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. These young students submitted illustrated storybooks to a student art exhibit at the SLHC last year. This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Or suppose you were leading a program to educate young people about violent behavior in dating relationships. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We love doing them, bring on great guest, speakers, totally free, totally educational. But if not, this is a great way for us to connect in a safe and educational space. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. Why is it important?”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. OSEP told us on a Sunday that we needed to start serving students for free right away. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

.” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. So the in-school suspension was growing and realizing that kids aren’t getting educated if they are in-school suspension.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 23, 2016

a single computer running basic DOS for an entire school was considered the very cutting edge of the tech-enhanced learning environment. Consider some of these facts: • In 1996 only 14 percent of classrooms had Internet access; 13 years later 93 percent were wired into the World Wide Web.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Some interactions, like educational programs, may be quite expensive per visitor but are considered very high value; others, like retail, are only worthwhile if the interactions are cheap and return financial value to the institution. Some museums only engage with students who show up at the museum. Let's look at these one by one.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We focus on what is required to build a more just society—in matters of race, health, the environment, and the economy. Costello: So, in his new book, Reich is joining with some other adults and, like any good parents, they’re trying to steer the aspiring techies in their classroom toward a healthier and wiser destination.

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