Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need.

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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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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 119

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. Send them home with students so parents are aware of the fundraiser and can provide support. Thank your donors and readers.

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Hosting Fundraising Badge Pledge 52

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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Attitude Student Classroom Problem 105

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter. Within the modules, I break it down in 15 minute blocks.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Training 113

Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. People learn in different ways, and in an eLearning, the human element is removed causing the need for content to be taught in a variety ways in one sitting. Learning Styles. With new media comes challenges. Interactive.

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eLearning Learning Instructional Instruction 63

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

I facilitated a number of openings, but we also got to experience a few opening exercises they use at the Starfish School. Milk the Cow is one example and while it might have been fun to do different handshakes when you were summer camp in Junior High, it is awkward and a little creepy to do this type of opener with professionals.

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Open Guatemala Tips Train 71

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's August, school's back in session, and besides traffic being a pain in the you-know-where again, children are back in the classroom with their thinking caps on. Jump Rope For Heart and Hoops For Heart are two service learning projects that educate and create awareness among teachers, parents and students ages 7-14.

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Blackboard Wikipedia Convio Children 29

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. Today, there are thirty kids fidgeting in a classroom, talking to their friends, messing with their phones. Come work in the fields, grow organic vegetables, do leadership exercises, and eat healthy food. He works with kids who rarely show up to school. Hanging out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). I'm nervous.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives?

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Interview San Francisco Classroom Classes 40

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And so today’s topic is hopefully just that, it helps inspire you to be able to work in a more organized way to engage all of the different stakeholders that we work with in the field. I’ll share some lessons as we go, experiences that I’ve had, and how to also manage different stakeholders and people.

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Community Video Slides Survey 79

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So we have several different topics today and the four. ” And to determine what we want to track, we want to look at different areas of engagement. Those are two different things, efficient and effective operating. And there’s three different areas that we can look at. So perhaps we’ll see some of you.

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Measure Report Process Impact 81

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. How important is it that some of the students at participating schools gain heightened awareness of the museum and physically show up one day?

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Flickr 20

Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. They’re exploring the different ways that they can unleash their agency in the world. And gave them examples of different technologies.

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