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. The practices are intended to balance the energies of any given space to assure health and good fortune for people inhabiting it. How does the room set up support or fight your instructional design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. At the beginning of the summer, I taught a master class and workshops with colleague Tharum Bunn from Cambodia at the IFC/Asia. Spectragram.

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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. I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. By Vicki Halsey. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Exercise classes. This is great for events such as concerts or even an online class! Sell tickets to your virtual event and provide instructions on how to access the livestream video. For one thing, offering a virtual alternative to an event allows more people to participate. People from all over the world can tune in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient.

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Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Not only did I design and deliver workshops and master classes for capacity building organizations for a range of nonprofits, but I also expanded my practice to internal workshops for nonprofits and foundations on a variety of topics, including workshops on creating the ideal work culture. Reflection helps energize me and helps me focus.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

They have to be in class during the day, dividing homework time between short study halls or evenings and weekends. People often don’t recognize the real reason for their procrastination, they just beat themselves up for it. But the original book just isn’t a good fit for a student. A student’s life is completely different.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

I now feel even I can help people living in America!!” The project's goals were to work with organizations that provide opportunities for people with disabilities and digitize a million pages of books to be added to the Bookshare collection. She says, “This job has greatly increased my self-esteem.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2021

They have to be in class during the day, dividing homework time between short study halls or evenings and weekends. People often don’t recognize the real reason for their procrastination, they just beat themselves up for it. But the original book just isn’t a good fit for a student. A student’s life is completely different.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 23, 2018

When sending a fundraising email, nonprofit Digital staff are keenly aware of the metrics that they need to achieve; a high open rate means the most people are actually seeing the content of the email, and a high click rate indicates that the email's messaging was persuasive enough to move people to donate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this Ted.com talk , people are sitting 9.3 There was an aerobics class going on outside with conference participants. I made a commitment to change.

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Work Brain Exercise Conference 135

Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

But even then, I often felt my mind drifting off in class, doodled on notes, or encountered moments where I was not motivated enough to attempt to process the course content. People learn at different paces and best with very different methodologies. Do not be afraid to survey your department: People know how they like to learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

This past month I’ve done several workshops where I experimented with different audience online interaction tools to engage people in the room as well as a remote audience tuning in through a live video stream. My instructional needs were simple: Question/Answer back channel where participants in the room or faraway could post questions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

They have to be in class during the day, dividing homework time between short study halls or evenings and weekends. People often don’t recognize the real reason for their procrastination, they just beat themselves up for it. But the original book just isn’t a good fit for a student. A student’s life is completely different.

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Student Skills Teach Life 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Here’s some reflections: 1.) Small Group Composition: How you select people to put into small groups may or may not be important to a small group exercise.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 15, 2019

Flower Arrangement Class. Then all you’ll need is proper instruction and complimentary refreshments. One of the reasons people put off their spring cleaning is because they don’t know what to do with all their unwanted stuff. Make sure the winner of the round gets a cool prize! Spring Cleaning.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they'd need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. Over time we refined our instructions.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they'd need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. Over time we refined our instructions.

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Library Case Study Studies Instruction 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they’d need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. Windows MultiPoint Server. Installation Problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bora Vuth, a young man from Cambodia who is attending college here in US, put his finger on it as he joined 136 other people on Facebook who donated to the Sharing Foundation. It makes you feel good to give and celebrate and be part of a network of people doing the same. I'll also share some insights about instruction.

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Gyrus

JUNE 16, 2016

When I was a child, I had difficulty with a math class, and an obsession with baseball cards; my father, saw this as an opportunity. This particular environment best motivates people who are enamored with structure and offers a quality foundational learning approach when compared to the training industry. Leaderboards.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Young people are not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's tech-centric workforce—and that's a huge problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I worked with the Foundation Center to develop an online course about how nonprofits can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy. I continue to hone and improve my instructional practice and share tips with these many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

A lively discussion took place regarding how to prepare young people for the jobs of the 21 st century and what nonprofits and corporations can do to support the initiative. with the goal of creating opportunities for 300 million young people worldwide. TechSoup for Libraries: Edge Benchmarks: Gadget Instruction. More Resources.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Improve first line of defense safety net programs to protect people during COVID-19. – Hold virtual ‘town halls’ to educate the community on places people can go to get food. Spin up a local virtual “bulletin board” where people with cars / online access can sign up to run errands on behalf of others. Urgent issues.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

It often surprises people when I mention that education accounts for fully one-fifth of nonprofit activity , second only to human services. Educators can also create "classes," which are groupings of students (one to 1,000) that they want to share playlists with. I think I may have a lead for you.

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Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2011

The course is intended for people in IT, especially computer network administrators. Classes will be a mix of live instruction using AdobeConnect as well as independent and collaborative work. While the workload may vary from week to week, we would estimate an average of 5-10 hours per week outside of class.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The first Presidential Debate of 2016 occurred this week, and people on both sides are fired up about it. People from all over the world were focused in on the United States and what was going on for the entirety of the 90-minute session (plus additional time)… So, I have already used some of my time. Blog Commencement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Note from Beth: One of the things that I enjoyed most about IFCAsia was the networking opportunities to connect with other people in the region who share interests. We know that young people like Generation Z are future donors, so programs that help introduce philanthropy at a young age will a big pay off down the road.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises. We allowed people to move from group to group once they go their questions answered.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. They’re essentially running it like an Internet café, but also plan to use it for training classes. Remember we didn’t supply any instructions at all on this installation.

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Kindful

MARCH 8, 2021

In fact, if you think about it, automation frees you up to improve the ways your nonprofit connects with people on a human level. Because Mailchimp offers instructional pages and best-in-class automation, we’re going to reference the ways they make automation work for you.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

People who are already your fan will not see this page by default, but it will be visible and accessible as an extra tab on your regular page. Mashable’s article has great, step-by-step instructions for how to set up this application and finish setting up the landing page.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

Our job is to get those people, those lives, those schools and communities to want to tell our stories. And if 1/100 th or 1/1000 th of those people who like it go donate just imagine the impact. People love to talk about themselves! We are changing the world and there are stories to be told. How did it help your child?

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