sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Engaged student and alum supporter: My daughter gets very excited when she hears talk about the university she attended. That’s because her school did a great job of engaging her while she was still a student. Alums often visited her classes to talk about their careers and ways to connect.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Creating a Sense of Community in Virtual Classrooms Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. Enhanced Student Engagement and Participation Interaction is at the core of building a sense of community.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. An effective strategy to utilize the potential of virtual learning is to create a strong sense of community within online classrooms — using the virtual environment as a means to reinforce community practices.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Classrooms: Benefits and Beyond GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. Virtual learning, also known as online learning or e-learning, is a form of education where students can access courses and materials through the Internet.

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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. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

Rufina’s new job is working for an education software start up that is developing operational software for schools It is called: EnTeEf: “Enabling Teachers’ Effectiveness “ in classrooms. At the Sujaya School, I visited a second grade art class. I also visited the sixth grade class. www.enteef.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media.

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Connect and combine things in unusual ways Example: She gave her students an assignment to combine two household items and create something with a new function. Space matters Example: Kindergarten classrooms where you can sit on the floor, move things around, be messy, work with others easily, and have space to move, encourage creativity.

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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. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 29, 2021

And we helped equip educators to better engage with thousands of students when classrooms had to become virtual. Salesforce.org focuses on delivering world-class technology to nonprofits and higher education customers. It has been a year of challenge and change. About the Author. CEO at Salesforce.org. .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. He was wrong.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Student Role Demonstrate the student’s ability to launch eLearning courses. Show how the student can track their progress through the course. Demonstrate the student’s ability to find a class that is required of them and self-enroll. Show how the student could cancel their enrollment if they needed to.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Student Role Demonstrate the student’s ability to launch eLearning courses. Show how the student can track their progress through the course. Demonstrate the student’s ability to find a class that is required of them and self-enroll. Show how the student could cancel their enrollment if they needed to.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Student Role Demonstrate the student’s ability to launch eLearning courses. Show how the student can track their progress through the course. Demonstrate the student’s ability to find a class that is required of them and self-enroll. Show how the student could cancel their enrollment if they needed to.

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Examples eLearning Classes Demonstration 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

I will be leading several workshops called " Exploring Cambodian Culture " at the Sage School (preK-8 school for gifted students) during "Cluster Week." The site defines it as: CultureQuests allow students to examine, understand, and appreciate diverse cultures, including the student's own culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

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. My ultimate dream would be to send Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging over to the Sharing Foundation's fledging computer school.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. iStudiez Pro. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The Flipped Classroom is mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning. It’s being done in elementary, high schools, and colleges. While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.)

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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?" PinkHeels of Pink Heels uses Moodle with her university students. askbritt online classroom learning education career advice. I actually didn't know, so I asked my Twitter network.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 30, 2015

.” Expanding on that thought, employees can attend training class after training class after training class, and even pass tests that show they’ve “learned,” however that does not truly mean that they can leverage the information presented in the class in the real world as skills.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. He was wrong.

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Children Foundation Camera Laptop 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Mayer’s research is from the 1990s, but the finders were recently validated again in a study from Carl Wieman that college students learn more, attend class at higher rates and are more engaged in their education when teachers take a more interactive approach in the classroom.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. For example, if your organization provides rent and utilities assistance and you have had a steep rise in requests for help, you could pitch a story about the crisis of middle class people falling into poverty.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Student Role. Demonstrate the student’s ability to launch eLearning courses. Show how the student can track their progress through the course. Demonstrate the student’s ability to find a class that is required of them and self-enroll. Show how the student could cancel their enrollment if they needed to.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 1, 2013

In other words, shooting and uploading video to YouTube alone does not a videographer make, at least not in my class of sixty undergraduates who come from any major on campus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

The project started by a college student named Shawn whose wants to make the world a better place one small personal action at a time.   In the classroom, I got to hear a lot of theories as to why poverty exists - but that actually made things seem more confusing.    He says it better in his own words: I???

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. However, many of the in-depth classes cost a bundle and take a week or more of your time. The GE Crotonville Center is the legendary example An easy "ask" for your local corporations is: can I get a donated seat in your classroom? Some are free.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program. A TEALS teaching assistant for a classroom in rural Kentucky noticed the transformation of a young man involved in the program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops. Our writing workshops focus on autobiographical writing and storytelling, and we actually do a lot of storytelling performance and theater with the students.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Student Role (same as Associate, Employee, or Customer). The benefit is that the focus is student development by skills, not just training. It is a central location for students to manage their development. Students can then easily locate and enroll in training required for those skills.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. We weren’t sure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

" The course had no existing curriculum and it provided a real life laboratory for him to have the curriculum come out of the community interactions that were happening in the classroom. It is part creative zone, part class note record and part review space. between students evaporated. the sense of ???competition???

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

When I was teaching young people for Streetside Stories , I worked in the classroom of this incredible teacher, Ms. When visiting these schools I would often notice that many of the staff had low expectations of the students, but not Ms. If a student was late for class or forgot their pencil, they were not allowed into class.

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