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Creating a Sense of Community in Virtual Classrooms

Gyrus

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. Online learning is even said to enhance information retention by 25% to 60%.

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Creating a Sense of Community in Virtual Classrooms

Gyrus

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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The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Classrooms: Benefits and Beyond

Gyrus

The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Classrooms: Benefits and Beyond GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. Improved Motivation and Learning Outcomes A strong sense of community in virtual classrooms can significantly boost students’ motivation to learn.

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Tech Tools to Benefit the Spanish-Language Community

Tech Soup

To help you serve your constituents better, TechSoup offers many products in Spanish including: Office productivity software — great for native Spanish speakers on your staff, in your classrooms, or using your library’s computers. Bilingual survey and polling programs to help you get feedback from your community.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It takes several iterations of your survey to develop one that works, but you really gain a good understanding of the level of your audience. Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research.

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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

The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. In the presentation, I showed folks how to easily survey the audience using google forms. However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. Vicky Davis, CoolCatTeacher Blog, writes about how it might be used in a classroom.

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