Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate. Rheingold published this post as a backdrop to his Monday evening talk. What struck me was his authentic co-learning process with his students. It resonated.

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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. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. The work I’m doing for the Emerging Leaders Playbook this to help train other trainers is fantastic opportunity to reflect, remember, and document facilitation processes and techniques.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Anne Kotleba Lecturer/ Program Coordinator, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Last time we introduced Anne, a new lecturer in the School of Community Resources & Development and coordinator of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and the Certified Nonprofit Professional Credential. What events do you have planned this year?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits. And, I expect no less in 2015.

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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. Human attention peaks at about about 12 minutes, particularly if it is a lecture. The learners will space out and come back to attention but not as at the high level at they did at the beginning of the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. Are students just checking their email and tuning out or does the laptop help them think? blame the internet! :-).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. " Then he takes us to where they are now - after seven years of doing, reflection, and improving this project - he lays out the main elements of the project: Skill training. Photos of the slides.

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