AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Consider playing an ice breaker game , introducing everyone, and showing the family your “virtual” classroom. . You can consider spicing up the virtual with a Bitmoji virtual classroom , which can be fun and relatively easy to make. You can shorten the class earlier that day to make things easier for the families.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Consider playing an ice breaker game , introducing everyone, and showing the family your “virtual” classroom. . You can consider spicing up the virtual with a Bitmoji virtual classroom , which can be fun and relatively easy to make. You can shorten the class earlier that day to make things easier for the families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Note from Beth: I’ve been a fan of the Games for Change Festival since I first attended in 2006. Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. and 47% of whom are female, spend a collective 3 billion hours per week on digital games! You can register here. In Education.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Ease of use: A game changer Ease of use significantly affects the adoption and effectiveness of a CRM. They’re dedicated to supporting Lake County, Florida schools in evaluating the needs of students and teachers and securing resources to ensure that every student and teacher has a better classroom experience.

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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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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

A raffle is a simple game of chance where your donors will purchase raffle tickets to be entered into a drawing to win prizes. Many states have rules and regulations around games of chance , including raffles. Board game basket. What is a raffle? Yearly entertainment subscription packages. Shadow for a day.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With a youth-oriented fundraiser, you can raise money for educational trips, sports equipment, classroom supplies, art supplies, musical instruments, or any other cause. Guessing games. Grab a jar and fill it up for a simple guessing game fundraiser! Do your sports team supporters need some merch to rep your team at your games?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. Talked about the openness to games and the need for research. Working on a series of research studies on the benefits of games. New learning environment puts games at the center. Photo by Rikomatic. We need metrics!

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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. Who does not like to play games? Mobile learning. Gamification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

My virtual colleague, Alan Levine has been exploring the use of YouTube, Flickr, and other free tools in the classroom for the K-12 Online Conference. Alan, I can't wait until you come back from your session and share the thinking with your peers about how to use this stuff in the classroom.

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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. International Game Technology. International Game Technology. In this post, I’ll share funding and grant resources for nonprofits involved in the education sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Last month I made a prediction that we might see fundraisers with FourSquare or some other location-based mobile social network with gaming element. There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 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. The game-changing part of Nayla’s platform? It doesn’t require internet access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The annual SXSW Interactive Festival is a geek home coming for those who work on the web, social media, and gaming. These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art classrooms. For the last few years, there has been a good nonprofit presence and this year is no exception!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why DonorsChoose.org is a Fundraising Game Changer: Charles Best started Donorschoose.org in 2000 out of his own frustrations of being a teacher in the Bronx who didn’t have the supplies he needed to teach effectively. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. Disruptor: Facebook.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

At this year’s NLASA fall retreat, I was so lucky to see how the fire inside each of us is not only present in a classroom setting, where we are expected to think about it, but still burning when we are in the middle of nowhere, and could be focused on whatever we wanted. I hope that someday soon, I will be able to.

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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. Then, I could declare that I was only one degree away from Kevin Bacon, and most likely win the game convincingly. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Certainly, ball games are places where you sit, something that’s barely even odds in museum galleries, and you get to drink beer while watching the main event. You might not be clear on the rules for penalties, but if you went to a game you be able to say the team got the point. Very few Americans don’t know what a home run is.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

We should see ourselves like those board games, where all the players have to work together to win. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Through the acclaimed Stock Market Game (SMG) program, a program of the SIFMA Foundation, schools, and after-school programs grades 4 – 12 learn about investing through a virtual, state-of-the-art capital markets simulation.? hours of community service. There’s an app for that!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2010

At long last, it's a new ball game. They were Pat Furr of Computers for Classrooms (CFC) and Bruce Buckelew of Oakland Technology Exchange West (OTX West). We simply had to trial-and-error our way through it, much like the 600 or so nonprofit refurbishers in the Community MAR network.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

But, is this new technology a passing fad, a mere game, or can it be leveraged to create truly meaningful experiences that shape our world for the better? How does the game work? You hear the buzz all over the place: augmented reality this, augmented reality that. You be the judge. People went crazy collecting Pokémon. Seriously loco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

At the StarFish School, where we had only an afternoon to do the training and smaller number of participants, so we did a shorter, briefer opener and an opening that Star Fish teachers use in their classrooms to build community. We stood in a circle and each person got to introduce themselves and say how they were feeling. Learn More .

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Gaming scenarios: This scenario involves testing a learner’s skills using a gamified, perhaps less realistic application of the knowledge. Gamification or learning games is an engaging way to test your learners’ understanding without them actually feeling like they’re being tested. Gamification.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. 14) Gaming tournaments. It’s no secret that internet gaming is big right now, so why not jump on the bandwagon by having your online gaming fundraising tournament ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. 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.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 30, 2023

In sports, a “hat trick” is when a player scores three goals in a single game. Stephenson did not play that game on his own. The hat trick occurs when these teams synchronize and are aligned on game plans and goals. Stick to the game plan. Stephenson—with a hat to celebrate his success.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Another CVA who spearheads volunteer operations for a big city civic engagement nonprofit told us that virtual tools have “totally changed the game,” and that “I don’t know that we will ever have a portfolio that won’t have virtual offerings again.” We’re open, but a lot of the volunteers just have not returned yet.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Mayer’s research is from the 1990s, but the finders were recently validated again in a study from Carl Wieman that college students learn more, attend class at higher rates and are more engaged in their education when teachers take a more interactive approach in the classroom. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

We'll explore how games can scale up learning to build capacity for thousands of grassroots organizations. -- I missed a lot the first presenter's piece, but got the end here: Ways of knowing and Ways of doing - reflection in action. We can create a game based on these concepts and build epistemic games. available for pre-order.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Lectures are left for the classroom. From everything we heard, it was truly game-changing. Cause Camp is a conference put on by yours truly, Nonprofit Hub, and will be hosted March 27-28 in Lincoln, Nebraska, at Nebraska Innovation Campus. This year we’ll be diving into: Nonprofit Marketing. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. I also recently discovered this post/podcast called " Remixing the Classroom."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. Dr. Mizuko Ito made the point that digital learning is happening primarily outside fo the classroom and in more of a social and play context. "We know very little about the learning that is happening outside of classrooms."

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Prior to Minds On Design Lab, Seth worked in the educational field first as a 5th grade classroom teacher and then as a technology and support leader in a thriving education technology startup. Share – Like & Tweet Button, E-Card, Fwd to Friend. Open Source – API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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