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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience

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The above photo shows their conference room where they have staff meetings. The latter may be due how children are taught in the Finnish educational system. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms.

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

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To do that, you have to connect with them emotionally through a story, a photo, and hero language that makes them feel special and important, like they personally stepped in and made a difference through their gift. You can automate this with your online donor management system. Just make it part of your system for thanking donors.

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Remix This Power Point!

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It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. site that has photos, etc., While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. Executable code for a operating system. to Change The World.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Blog posts or photos from volunteers and other “boots on the ground” staff who want to share their experiences Video with your religious leader or a board member explaining your organization’s impact. Social media offers the opportunity to post different kinds of content like photos and videos.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

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It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. They may also need screen magnifiers that are built in to Windows and other operating systems or they use specialized applications like ZoomText. Photo: Braille reader by iampeas.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

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Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. 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.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

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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.