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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. Development.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites. It's infinitely more convenient for a student to be granted access to literature or documents whenever they want online , rather than keeping libraries staffed and open 24 hours a day to cater to students' study habits. Success in Second Life.

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New Screencast: Web Analytics Demystified: A Primer for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created a companion wiki where you find lots of links to additional resources to help you learn more. What I discovered is that creating a screencast is a terrific personal learning environment because you can't create a media piece unless you really know the topic. High bandwidth version available here.