Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience. There was a lot of snapping. There are many ways to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. 2.) Exercise Task: Having the ability to break into small groups, provides an opportunity to use Peer Assist or After Action Review models. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. In Philanthropy.

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Difference Game New York City San Francisco 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. We have the wrong mental model for change. He talked about a test using a food drive with two sets of instructions, one complicated and one simple.

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NTC Brain Children Local 82

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. We have the wrong mental model for change. He talked about a test using a food drive with two sets of instructions, one complicated and one simple.

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NTC Brain Children Local 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. So, I was able to get folks to self-assess where they were on the on the model and then group themselves in the room. That’s why you need energizers.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. We have the wrong mental model for change. He talked about a test using a food drive with two sets of instructions, one complicated and one simple.

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NTC Brain Children Change 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. TechCrunch. The Big Picture.

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News Technology Africa Nonprofit 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. Some Quick Reflections on Instruction. I asked the students what else does that? I did not eat chocolate.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95