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. Here’s how: 1.Establishing

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Sphero For taking its STEM robots into the classroom For over a decade, Sphero has built interactive robots and STEM educational tools that students of all ages can use in the classroom. To date, the company has activated 5 million robots, and its products are employed by more than 40,000 educators in 20,000-plus schools.

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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. Improved Motivation and Learning Outcomes A strong sense of community in virtual classrooms can significantly boost students’ motivation to learn.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The classrooms have child-size boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. Creators of the Reggio Emilia approach to early learning, an educational philosophy that emphasizes child-led learning, even refer to the environment as the third teacher in a classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate. The term Peeragogy came fluttering through my network, like a butterfly, and it caught my interest. It resonated. What struck me was his authentic co-learning process with his students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. For several years, he struggled in school because his vision was blurry and reading normal size print was grueling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms. In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This summer while leading a young women STEM study abroad program in Ghana she facilitated Tableau for Teaching workshops with students and faculty at the University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(Kumasi). Learn how you can get started with teaching data skills in your classroom. October 25, 2024

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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. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art classrooms. The workshops are included in the price of an Interactive, Gold, or Platinum Badge. Nonprofit Social Media Managers Enter The C-Suite: Peer To Peer. Sunday, March 10 3:30PM – 6:00PM.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Strong workplace communication is necessary to develop leadership skills, improve professional growth, facilitate collaboration, reduce conflicts and misunderstandings, and boost employee engagement. Organizations must invest in good learning management systems (LMS) to facilitate effective communication training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning.

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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. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2022

It lets you choose from Stripe or Moolah to facilitate online transactions, monthly gifts, or EFT donations. Kindful is another powerful donor-tracking software that facilitates online giving as a built-in feature. DonorsChoose is a cool platform for classrooms where teachers post a project and people commit to giving.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. Top 10 Ways to Help Your Child Readjust to Classroom Learning. Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Selecting training methods: Classroom training or workshops provide a space free from the distractions of everyday activities, so participants can focus on learning and getting to know colleagues in a new context. New to workshop planning and facilitation? " She develops and delivers classroom and online training. Get another!

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

StoryCorps provides a free, downloadable Do-It-Yourself Instruction Guide , as well as an Education Toolkit to use in a classroom or library, and a Community Service Toolkit to use in, "veteran’s hospitals, senior centers, homeless shelters, and other community centers." I also like their Great Question List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Around Gender. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Southern Economic Advancement Project and Fair Count created a dashboard to advance equitable access to vaccines in Georgia, facilitating more than 7,000 vaccination appointments and reaching hundreds of thousands of citizens with information on accessing the vaccine. Equitable Education .

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Tableau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Southern Economic Advancement Project and Fair Count created a dashboard to advance equitable access to vaccines in Georgia, facilitating more than 7,000 vaccination appointments and reaching hundreds of thousands of citizens with information on accessing the vaccine. Equitable Education .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

My role in the project is to the facilitate the training sessions, design the overall training, facilitate openers and closings, help prep the curriculum, and deliver modules on digital strategy and social media. Working with Wake is also a wonderful professional development experience to hone training and facilitation trade craft.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

It would involve a prototyping lab, offices, shared workspaces, meeting rooms and classrooms. So there’s a lot of contracting and collaboration that we facilitate between the startups as well as outsourcing to industry for short-term R&D projects.”

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

It’s a bridge connecting learners and educators, facilitating a seamless exchange of knowledge. This term represents a software platform designed to facilitate educational processes. This comprehensive approach helps facilitate both structured and flexible learning paths. What Does LMS Mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

These tools can facilitate coordination/discussion/communication amongst key stakeholders about the content. She offers some examples of this approach from the activism field. Online Collaboration Tools: A co-creation network will require an organization to have the ability to collaborate online beyond the organization's firewalls.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 29, 2022

From classrooms to districts to state houses across America, they are reimagining education to realize the day when every child has an equal opportunity to learn, lead, thrive, and co-create a future filled with possibility.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Hispanic Heritage Foundation is an award-winning nonprofit that identifies, inspires, prepares and positions Latino leaders in the classroom, community and workforce to meet America’s priorities. Here are just a few of our favorite organizations, which deserve your support this month and all year-round! Hispanic Heritage Foundation The.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. Spend some time at the beginning of your presentation explaining to your audience how you will respond to the twitter stream and audience members are more likely to use it responsibly.

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Gyrus

MARCH 7, 2025

Blended learning integrates traditional face-to-face instruction with online activities in a structured way, incorporating digital tools into the classroom. Digital tools facilitate self-paced learning, while classroom sessions provide structured guidance. This creates a more engaging and flexible learning environment.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

As such, standardized training imparted in a classroom might not be able to get all trainees to participate with active interest or even optimize the learning effectiveness. It is essential that companies provide an easy communication channel between trainees and trainers, so as to facilitate ease of doubt resolution.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

As such, standardized training imparted in a classroom might not be able to get all trainees to participate with active interest or even optimize the learning effectiveness. It is essential that companies provide an easy communication channel between trainees and trainers, so as to facilitate ease of doubt resolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things.

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