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. They start the day with a student posting an inspirational quote on the board. My favorite was the world time zone calculator. www.enteef.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. 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. So, you have to design for that.

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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

Finding time to sit down and read isn’t always easy in people’s busy lives. 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. What is a read-a-thon fundraiser?

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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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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 27, 2014

Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. In addition, I do a little real-time assessment in the room by doing “raise your hand” polls or in a webinar by using the polling feature. This can help you adjust in real-time to the audience needs or what I call a real-time pivot.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Interactive. I like to refer to this as the Sesame Street Rule.

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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. The challenge is getting people’s attention when time is up because the noise level goes up. ” And I walked through the middle of line with the noisemakers telling them it was time to change.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. 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. It starts—every time—with relevance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise. world, reading and commenting on blogs, it's time to start blogging. Research to incorporate in instructional materials.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You should have it by dinner time, that’s my promise to you. We’re going to try to save a little bit of time for Q&A at the end, but don’t be shy about that. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. So how do we know what to track?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A so don’t be shy, don’t sit on those hands. They want to invest more time, more resources. I’ve got 1:00 Eastern.

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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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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. Computer science is one of the most popular majors at Stanford—it’s taken by nearly 20 percent of the student body. I’m Amy Costello.

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