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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. So, you have to design for that.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. The flexible classroom is a large open space. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I most often have to hack the space.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. Moving to Zoom, the simplest way to adapt would be screenshare my slide deck. So I started using collaborative Google documents.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. How: 6 Tools and Tips. Know of any?

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Intermediated Conferences and Backchannels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since the workshop is essentiallly about designing more interactive face-to-face learning environments, I don't want to model a 85 minute lecture with 100 slide powerpoint, leaving 5 minutes for q&A at end. Coolcat Teacher wrote an excellent post reflecting on the use of backchannels in the classroom.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

As always, just a couple of quick housekeeping items, I want to let everyone know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording and the slides later on today. ” That reflection is really important. . Steven: I definitely will. . Julie: I’m happy to address it. Here we go.