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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting

Candid

In summary, the arts play a well-documented role in shaping resilient and well-rounded individuals during their formative years. Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? But now we’re missing an “as” before “supported by research” in the first sentence.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Documentation.

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3 Strategies for Effective Nonprofit E-Learning

The Nerdy NonProfit

The American Red Cross wanted to educate volunteers to fill out key tracking documents, logging the resources that are used in a facility. These documents were complicated, and the information was previously shared through a long PowerPoint presentation. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity. The documenter will also transcribe sticky notes into a word document and capture any thoughts shares via social media hashtag. Defining Roles.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. There are usually two aspects of this.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to design, development and facilitate training on how staff can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy, including a special session training your attention online. I plan to do that with facilitation techniques for design and innovation labs.