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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Then I block out 90 minute and 75 minute modules with 15 minute breaks in between.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. What attitudes toward evaluation are present? What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

Museum 2.0

Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. Create a structure that values peoples' participation. Ensure that you as convenor are talking for a very small amount of the time--ideally just to frame, contextualize, provide clear instructions, and keep people moving.

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Should Museums Be Happiness Engines?

Museum 2.0

They provide clear instructions and rules for how to succeed, better feedback on how well you are doing, better community with which to experience the game, and induce more intense emotions of personal pride and accomplishment (fiero!). However, I'm wary of the limitations of game structures to support human happiness.

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