Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice. My job was the network weaver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Images are better than words for instructional aids. What do you actually retain? And, what do you actually apply? Writing is better than reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. Ever since the SXSW blog discussion " What is the distinction between social media for charity and social media for social good " I've wanted to play the game with a critical mass of smart people who have a program and social change lens. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. Social Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Nonetheless, there is a nonprofit perspective and my instructional materials and experience speak to that audience. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. We did mostly full room discussion, but I broke it up with some moving around exercises. This breaks up the full room discussion format a bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. There are many ways to do this, but try to avoid the “Q/A of the Expert at the End,” and facilitate discussion that is more reflective.

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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. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Forum One

MAY 7, 2009

Don't forget clear instructions about audio, whether using teleconference or VOIP. As participants log in, have a slide or whiteboard that clearly shows the instructions for the audio. Use the technology available to vary activity with video or slides, interactive polling, application sharing or whiteboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. I also thought of a book title from about ten years ago called " Learning and Forgetting " I went a little overboard on the 80-plus powerpoint slides. "How much time do you spend online?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I must also memorize how to skip around in powerpoint without flipping through slides. What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

When people verbally discuss a topic in a meeting room together without being mediated through a video platform like zoom which has a delay are at an advantage compared to people using a video platform. We think of meeting facilitation as a real-time or synchronous activity where a group of people exchange ideas or discuss topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. The morning agenda was the full group - presentation and demonstration with lots of opportunity for discussion. I would have addressed this with some differentiated instruction in the small groups in the afternoon.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. Networks in an International Context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. A Museum group is also forming to discuss and explore what museum's can do in SL. Both events had their share of clunkiness. that didn't last long or ruin the event.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, I was honored to chair a fabulous panel on empowering museum staff to take creative risks ( slides here ). When preparing this panel discussion, we spent some time wrangling as a group about the difference between "being creative" and "taking risks."

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Ted Hart’s suggestion was along the lines of ‘these are great, they are here to stay so figure out how to make them work for you’ and I think that was a common angle taken by the experts when discussing these future trends. But that wasn’t the story – as amazing as it was.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

I’m Steven, I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion as always. . Just want to let you all know that we are recording this presentation and we will be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on today. Steven: bring up your slides. . Rachel: Wonderful.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

You can now view the video in its entirety via YouTube here (or by clicking play above), and you can download Jane’s slides here. We had a very active chat-based discussion during and after the webcast, and the chatlog will be available at the CFM site soon. Games are happiness engines that are designed to support these four things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve been exploring how to integrate social media into instruction at face-to-face workshops and as well as webinars. The concept of before, during, and after is an important way to plot out your instruction, getting a good understanding of the audience, and modeling. Social Learning In Webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Openness - ????A

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

These platforms are what elevate a static PDF or slide show presentation to greater heights, creating courses that are engaging, interactive, and full of multimedia elements. Some of the stand-out features of Adobe Captivate include the ability to: Use ready-to-go slides for common compliance and soft skill topics. 10+ Top Tools.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

And I’ll be moderating today’s discussion as always. . Let’s see if we can get those slides going. You may have your slides up on your computer, but try hitting that share button. ” And yes, we are still on the first slide that is called what is philanthropic psychology. So thanks for being here.

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