Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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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. Rather than just talk about the campaign, students has to participate.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We pivoted from in-person body alignment corrections and preparing for national tours and performances to ensuring all educators and students had the appropriate platforms and technology to just attend one class. Did participants have the appropriate technology to participate? These changes did not happen overnight.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

Our new guide provides helpful and instructive case studies to illustrate how other funders have taken such steps. . For example, the guide shares how savvy education funders are considering the impact of learning loss on students who every year miss more and more days of instruction due to the climate crisis.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

that accept volunteer hours as course credit for high school and college students. Were volunteers given clear instructions on where their support was needed most? Technology is your partner in volunteer retention success Managing a group of volunteers or a volunteer program comes with a myriad of challenges.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2017

Some people say technology is the great equalizer. And it's true that there are many examples of how technology opens doors and levels the so-called playing field. There is still a significant disparity between who can and cannot touch certain technologies. But others might say that equality is contingent upon access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2021

For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4 This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. A student’s life is completely different.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8% We also continue to add books from volunteers, staff and outsourcers through scanning and proofing, including student requests. Accordingly, U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education. Content is available in Arabic, French, and English, and it adheres to Lebanese school curriculum to ensure students don’t get behind when in-person classes resume. Syrian refugees and Lebanese students learn for free. . .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they’d need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. Computer Technologies Program in Berkeley, California, was one of our test sites. Like most of our test sites, they didn’t initially use the instructions to connect up the hardware.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Due to high demand, CLI quickly expanded, and now offers an expanded service model including recurring workshops in literacy instruction and personalized, job-embedded coaching to help educators create a lasting love of reading in their students (of books like Where the Wild Things Are!). Star Wars: Force for Change.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2020

Based outside of Seattle, International Baccalaureate World School Annie Wright Schools, which includes day and boarding options, is embracing the same creativity they encourage in their students to navigate the path ahead. From the beginning of the year, Annie Wright has relied on innovation to stay agile in responding to the pandemic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

I recently was sworn in by Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter as one of nineteen people serving on the Advisory Commission on Accessible Instructional Materials in Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities. Opportunity to higher education is a crucial need for all students, and especially students with disabilities.

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Everyaction

MAY 14, 2018

For universities searching for ways to both grow students' engagement on campus and develop their education and participation as active citizens, voter registration programs have become an increasingly popular activity. Instructions for where to find voter registration material on campus. Make the information easy to find.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. The event kicks off a semester long internship for students working with nonprofits. How does the room set up support or fight your instructional design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. To pave the way for philanthropy to become a required course for college students and to make it as easy as possible for colleges and universities to integrate it into their curricula. The goals for the Giving 2.0

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Every dollar you donate will go to scholarships for students in financial need!” Consider purchasing phonathon software from a well-established vendor, such as industry leader Wilson-Bennett Technology’s DonorConnect. Submission deadlines and instructions. ” See the difference? Types of qualifying nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. and that risk paid off. and that risk paid off.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. We’re thrilled that students and other readers who have disabilities that keep them from reading standard print can now read the same books as their peers, using the same devices. with the books they need for educational success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Some things to consider include: What resources (technology, space, materials, time, finances, etc.) Drawing from adult learning theories, ECB utilizes a variety of strategies such as: Vehicle of instruction: face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, classroom style learning, web-based mechanisms, manuals, etc. are available?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2008

I just got back from the ATIA conference, which included meetings of the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) committees. It was a blast, given that we've more than quadrupled the number of students we're serving in less than four months!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. Interactive Training Engages.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Virtual options can be particularly helpful when fundraising for education, as they allow you to reach out to supporters of your students who may be further away, such as aunts and uncles, grandparents, and family friends. They also give you a unique opportunity to get the family members of those students to make a recurring donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. This start up has a triple bottom line and is the vision of founder and CEO Priya Krishnan – a woman who is passionate about high quality education and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. " The Role of Libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 27, 2008

The biggest issue I'm still working on is one I mentioned two years ago: getting access to the textbooks in the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC). There are more than 8,000 textbooks and other instructional materials in the repository, but very few of these have reached students.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

PowerMyLearning is a new, free online resource that has educational games, videos, and other activities for elementary, middle-school, and high school-aged students. CFY was founded by Elisabeth Stock in 1999 with the mission of helping low-income students do better in school by improving their learning environments at home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I teach a seminar course on integrated social media strategy for international nonprofits and a session for students to learn how they leverage their professional networks for career and learning in a flexible classroom space. My Three Themes: . What about you? What will you accomplish in 2017?

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