Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week 's question comes from a writing teacher, and client, who wants to know: "What Tools Can I Use to Teach Classes Online?" NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. askbritt online classroom learning education career advice.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. The post Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud appeared first on Cloud for Good.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2011

This one's about Amber Slaven, a librarian who got her start at Bellevue Library with a pretty great gig: driving a Winnebago outfitted as a mobile computer classroom. She also managed up to 100 volunteers at a time to help teach classes in her library system and offered some tips on ensuring a smooth volunteer experience.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Jay said that they support 30 PC in offices, classroom, and a school computer lab. In the school there are two PCs in each classroom, and the 12-station computer lab is used mostly for research. The First Christian Church’s IT system is not much different than any nonprofit school environment. It also has a large Cargill.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The good news is that the myth that you can’t make systemic change quickly is just that, a myth. That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. We create systems to mitigate all risk. Learning outside the classroom, what’s your opinion of games that support tangential learning?

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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. In this post, I’ll share funding and grant resources for nonprofits involved in the education sector. Cruise port communities are given preference. Areas served: US. Areas served: US.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 3, 2007

Adriano and I have had some long conversations over the years about how to best provide the training organizations need to make effective use of their information systems, and he led us in experimenting with a lot of different ways of doing training. Eventually, we found that traditional classroom training was rarely the solution.

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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. In a classroom setting, this is most clearly present in projects in which group work is assigned. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

At TechSoup, we know that many nonprofits and libraries serve Spanish-speaking communities in everything from teaching English as a second language, to financial and educational services, to local family- and health-related programs.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. My Three Words.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. If your school reads daily announcements over an intercom system, use that opportunity to plug your read-a-thon as well.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

One of the most poignant signs I saw waved during the Occupy Movement was held by a young woman who politely advised The System to " F**k your free internships. That protest placard highlighted the unpaid internship as a simultaneous symptom and result of badly broken political and social systems. They''re the Internship Generation.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers. This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Susan’s practical approach to fundraising and board development has made her a frequent presenter at conferences and in classrooms, including a course she teaches at Johns Hopkins University. The Nonprofit Consulting Playbook and YOU and Your Nonprofit Board are among her other writing projects.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The good news is that the myth that you can't make systemic change quickly is just that, a myth. That's teaching. Fundamentally that's what teaching should be. We create systems to mitigate all risk. How can you pursue innovation with games when teachers have the kinds of tests and classroom requirements now?

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? Some are free.

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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. Mazur uses technology,a web-based monitoring system where students submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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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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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. Detail a process. Assess learners before, during, and after courses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. You may place individual gamers head-to-head and compete against one another or set up a points system with teams.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

So, I decided that I want to be a classroom teacher, and I've applied to school. Update: Viet-Ly was accepted into a teach credential program for this fall]. So I think it's really important for teachers of color to be in the classroom, especially in middle school. That really baffled me. Viet-Ly: I have no idea.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Along with familiarizing them with the system, take the time to set an overall fundraising goal/deadline as well as goals for each peer-to-peer fundraiser. Qgiv’s fundraising system provides a comprehensive view of all this data , as well as options to compile custom and pre-built reports to better understand the data.

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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. Working on a series of research studies on the benefits of games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. 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. And some background reading.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If you want to see the system in action, request a personal demo that’s customized to your nonprofit’s needs. In this image, a group of adults sit in a classroom watching a teacher’s presentation. To learn more about Neon Fundraise, click the button below.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 23, 2016

Institutions of teaching still wholly relied on the skill and effectiveness of the individual standing in front of a chalkboard to impart information to a hopefully wide-eyed audience—no matter if they were first graders learning their multiplication tables or medical students delving into the maze of human anatomy.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 28, 2021

The Teach For America Story: Creating Exceptional Constituent Experiences.

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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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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I could practically teaching this class. That way, we were able to take the kids directly from the classroom and walk them down to the clinic to make sure we have 100% of students actually able to get to their mental health appointment. So I have a question for you, and feel free to put this in the chat box. Move aside, Julie.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The tool could have a corresponding curriculum for high school and college educators to use it as a teaching tool in the classroom. All reports should be logged into a secure central system managed by the government, similar to how NHTSA manages vehicle reports. Make the Automated Export System (AES) Mobile Optimized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

Our goal was for NetCorps interns to teach NGOs how to integrate technical tools into their workplace to achieve their mission, at the same time these orgs were teaching our students how to deal in life. I must say I was often not found in a classroom during law school. I then went on to help start NTEN as a board member.

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