Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

One person we spoke with described the sudden adjustments at her food bank: We had never used a platform virtually before. We held 33 virtual focus groups (via Zoom) with 181 CVAs in the United States and Canada. CVAs described how transitioning to virtual and remote service removed the barriers of distance and lack of transportation.

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Accessibility Technology Language Oregon 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Second Life Open Source Life Education 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. Know of any?

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Channel Instruction Instructional Instructional Design 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't." It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. How do we think about virtual worlds and help us study human behavior. National Science Foundation.

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Game Change Metrics Learning Environment 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience.

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Digital Learning Media Avatar 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. In January, NMC released The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. You've got to love their logo.

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