Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. How does the room set up support or fight your instructional design? Feng Shui is an ancient art and science developed many years ago in China.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. ” So, I like to share a few of my favorites that I have inspired me in my instructional/training practice. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Nonprofit activities shape the students, teaching them valuable skills, helping them foster empathy, and connecting them to causes that matter. Offer clear instructions, an easy registration process, and incentives like certificates of appreciation or small tokens of gratitude. Students are bursting with potential.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Companies using the technology have found that it cuts downtime, boosts worker productivity, and significantly reduces the time needed to produce usable instructions. The new software also includes an AI copilot that answers further questions users may have based on uploaded manuals and other relevant documents. million global views.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

With most teaching repetitive coding, in a very rigid, instructional way, it tends to appeal more to boys than girls, says EAK. After R&D of two years, it came up with a game designed to teach kids and girls as young as eight skills such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript through highly gamified, story-driven gameplay.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This month, as many schools attempt to utilize online instruction for the first time, Prezi is rolling out two new tools tailored to distance learning. Szafranski believes — or hopes — that after giving live-streamed video a shot for remote instruction, teachers will keep the tool in their pocket post-pandemic.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Simple Steps for Teaching Privacy. Although privacy issues can be a challenge to teach, Scott recommends a few simple steps for digital literacy educators: Provide basic privacy instruction. It's a heated, political topic and it will come up when you're teaching privacy. Reset the Net's Privacy Pack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

The kit comes with instructions on how to build five robots. It’s designed as a way to teach children basic STEM skills, including programming, and it’s the first new entry in the Mindstorms lineup in seven years. The kit comes with instructions for five robots. Image: Lego.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. . Tableau Academic programs help instructors teach data literacy by providing free software and learning resources for students and teachers.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Teach Some Curiosity. In other words, teaching business/marketing to web engineers is vital. More Doing, Less “Instructions” The best way to learn is to actually do something. If someone tells you (teaching) the solution, then all you are required to do is regurgitate that solution (college).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. Assessments/Quizzes. GCF Learn Free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. How to think like a social instructional designer. Audience Research.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. Tableau Academic programs help instructors teach data literacy by providing free software and learning resources for students and teachers.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 22, 2024

2023-2024 HBCU Fulbright Award Institutions visualized by Mary Dunaway We spoke to Dr. Dunaway about her impressive career journey, the growing importance of data in today’s society, and how she uses Tableau to teach data skills to students and educators. So analytics is everywhere and it’s also my passion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 23, 2012

Text: If you haven't visited the brand new Golfers Insider website, then you are missing out on FREE golf instructional videos from top PGA teaching professionals like Martin Chuck, Mark Evershed, Eddie Merrins and Roger Fredericks. Subject: Take a Look at our Welcome Video. Attachment: FREE Golf Tips Video.html.

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The Verge

APRIL 17, 2022

It looks like JK Brickworks plans on creating in-depth building instructions as well, as he notes “instructions will be forthcoming” in the description of his design breakdown video.

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John Kenyon

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Mix up your approach with written instructions, video demonstrations, interactive workshops, and personalized coaching. Match Training to Different Learning Styles – Some people learn by reading step-by-step guides, others need video tutorials, and some require hands-on experimentation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Route 66 Route 66, our online platform for teaching reading, has officially launched thanks to support from the Peery Foundation. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities. Route 66 is software that provides teachers (and non-teachers!)

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Posted by Wenhao Yu and Fei Xia, Research Scientists, Google Empowering end-users to interactively teach robots to perform novel tasks is a crucial capability for their successful integration into real-world applications. The Reward Translator maps natural language instruction from users to reward functions represented as python code.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

Some of Canon’s own toner cartridges are now being detected as fakes — and they’re forcing the company to teach customers how to bypass its own DRM (via Techdirt ). But Canon is now getting a taste of its own medicine. But wait, there’s a simple solution, says Canon!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. The goals for the Giving 2.0 3) Giving 2.0: Philanthropy'

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Mark explained throughout his four-minute pitch that his company teaches kids Spanish through games and stories. He likened FabuLingua to Prodigy Education’s ultra-popular education product that teaches math through a similar gamification service. The company was founded by Leslie and Mark Bergert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. I have found the ideas and skills described in the book to be invaluable to training and teaching and appreciate having this “recipe” book. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

I am not a fan of employees training each other unless you can shift responsibilities to ensure that people have the capacity to take on a teaching role. The best instruction is probably going to come from the experts who are most familiar with the product, i.e. the vendor.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Tableau Academic Programs Instructional Designer. Those experiences not only informed my teaching, but it became a personal passion to bring foundational data skills to all. If you’re an instructor at an accredited institution, you can request a free Tableau for Teaching license for instructional use or noncommercial academic research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

If not, teach him what he needs to do differently to avoid the mistake from reoccurring. Finally, you may discover that the mistake happened because policies, procedures or your assignment instructions were confusing or unclear. Ask him what he thinks he can do in the future to avoid the mistake from happening again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. This exercise was teaching us to be open to change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. How do we teach leaders to know when emergence is working? Participants would have clickers and would be instructed to click every time they felt some discomfort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

” Although “paragogy” is a more rationally derived word that extends “pedagogy” (teaching children) and “androgogy” (teaching adults), I’ve started calling it peeragogy because many people get the point as soon as I use the word.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The book’s teachings are based on exclusive research from two Salesforce studies of thousands of employees and c-suite executives around the globe, and further validated by hundreds of executive conversations and other industry research. Closer employee alignment with business goals. Greater employee satisfaction with leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This past year took me to London to teach nonprofit leaders at workshops on digital strategy hosted by LinkedIn and Social Misfits, and to Cambodia to teach a series of workshops for Women’s Rights NGOs hosted by Wake International. My Three Themes: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. Teach for both the color-in-the-lines people (ie: guidelines, next steps) and the runs-with-scissors people. Lisa Bunker (@mutabilis) March 10, 2013. Come join us on Twitter using the hashtag #npsmpeer.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

If we gave you a list of instructions with the following information—and only the following information—what would you do? The point is that providing information and instruction isn’t very helpful to learners if you don’t provide specific examples to back it up. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer.

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