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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities.

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How #GivingTuesday Can Help Your Nonprofit Reach PhilanthroKids or Generation Z Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Research points to the emergence of a dynamic generation: educated, industrious, collaborative and eager to build a better world (see slide 10). A good checklist and some recommendations can be found on slides 50-53. It’s a huge group: two billion worldwide. How do businesses and nonprofit reach out to this generation? The Giving 2.0

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Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $68M

TechCrunch

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. Lingoda notes that teachers set their own schedules and call classes themselves, rather than being ordered into them.

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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

In a classroom, everyone knows who walks through the door—but sometimes in Zoom, that’s not clear. If you are lecturing, showing slides, otherwise not engaging the audience for more than 10 minutes, something needs to change. Launch a poll, ask for feedback, switch speakers, turn off the slides. Welcome everyone.

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Google Docs and Sheets are experiencing partial outages

The Verge

Google’s Workspace Status Dashboard is reporting that Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Classroom are all experiencing service disruptions. Downdetector is currently showing spikes in issues with Google Drive, Google Classroom, and Google itself, though we’ve not encountered any issues on Google’s main search site. Developing.

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Zoom’s new focus mode could keep students from distracting each other

The Verge

Zoom has announced a new Focus mode, which it says is meant to keep students from getting distracted while in a virtual classroom, while still allowing the teacher to keep an eye on everybody. It seems likely that virtual classrooms are going to be sticking around for some, so it’s good that Zoom is adding features to improve tele-learning.

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

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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. There are computers and large monitors in each classroom, Internet access, and of course, the software development. www.enteef.com.

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