Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 27, 2014
So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 5, 2014
I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 19, 2016
People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. If you do this for about 5-7 minutes, it will wake people up and they will be concentrate focus on the content delivery.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going. Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 8, 2019
In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 14, 2015
Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !
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