Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

For the past five years, the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati has honored Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday by asking a writer to give the annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture about, "Writing to Change the World." Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year.

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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. Young people have access to computers in schools and libraries, but there is a difference in the quality of experience. "We know very little about the learning that is happening outside of classrooms."

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JULY 8, 2021

Now, let’s say you’re teaching learners to complete a specific task that requires following a number of steps in order. If you think back to your own classroom experiences, you’re probably familiar with final exams that you were required to pass to progress to the next course level. Detail a process.

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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. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning.

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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. The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

You teach people how to relate to you. ” You know, you could say something like in one sentence, “You are helping kids go from bullied, and disconnected, and really struggling in the classroom to becoming a leader in their community amongst their peers and applying for college.” Yep, Sam, I see you. ” Boom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. For teaching and learning. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud. Fundraising presentations.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Students and teachers excel in classrooms that have all the resources they need to keep learning and teaching. Is your neighborhood library in need of new books? Here are a few tips and tricks for hosting an in-kind donation drive with your organization! Donation Drive Ideas. School supply drive. Book drive.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Every week I get to go in and read with the same two children for a half an hour each in the school library. Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment. Tuesday was my first day volunteering with the "reading partners" program at my neighborhood public elementary school.

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