Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I used the “Fishbowl” technique for an exercise to help participants experience what it is like to brainstorm ideas for an integrated content strategy. Four participants sit in the center and use sticky notes and a strategy template to generate ideas for content for different channels. The Importance of Energizers Throughout.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The comfort level that younger generations have with technology is not lost on volunteer managers. And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers. As younger generations continue to age into the civic sphere, reaching them will require organizations to enter digital spaces.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

In the United States, we generated over 251 million tons of trash in 2006, the most recent year recorded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). C3 also: Visits schools on Earth Day and teaches kids as young as two years old the importance of recycling, showing them how normal items around their homes can be turned into easy artwork.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

So, I used the random.org random number generator and 7 came up. Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. Chas was the 7th comment. I plan to do this regularly!

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Conversation Classroom Skype Contest 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. That’s the theory at least.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. I select what I questions I do based on answers in an online pre-survey. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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