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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

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After two years of teaching online in a variety of formats and structures, one thing that I’ve realized is that when the camera is off, people may be long gone—or at least disengaged. . In a classroom, everyone knows who walks through the door—but sometimes in Zoom, that’s not clear. So, how does that translate to the Zoom Room?

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up. www.enteef.com.

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

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And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and will be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. So I’ll let you pull up your beautiful slides. So let me share my slides with you all. You teach people how to relate to you.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. 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. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photos of the slides. The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. He described the curriculum where inmates learn both computer skills and the recording/audio production skills and the classroom space (with "walls made of radio signals").

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