Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2015

One of my main projects this past year, and continuing into 2015 was to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

We framed the session as what to think about before, during, and after a training , using the “ADDIE” model as an organizing device. Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Reflective Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. 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. Social Instructional Design.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

When done correctly, these assessments both provide data about your members and help those members reach greater heights in their continuing education efforts. There are a variety of types of eLearning assessments that you can use to evaluate your association’s members. This tests knowledge acquisition. Open-Ended Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

How about you? I also facilitated sessions on healthy and productive online and offline meetings for Guide Star, including a sessions about walking meetings at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference and Online Community Managers Meetup. Happy New Year ! Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. If you look at the replies , you can see that it also got about 30 @replies, including replies where participants played the game.

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

However, my inability to participate aside, Pokémon Go is a very good application of Augmented Reality, and with the user base growing at such an alarming rate, it has caused many organizations to take pause and evaluate what seems to be endless opportunities in not only the game and its facets but in the delivery method itself.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

So much so, we here at Gyrus tend to talk about it… a lot. Instead, effective content is and must be designed specifically for use on our handheld devices and tablets. Mobile Learning – Is it Finally Viable? Mobile Learning has been a cool shining beacon in the learning industry for quite a while now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

(see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. In addition, we had expert knowledge in the room from JD Lasica, Paul Lamb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. We distributed the cards and had participants pair up with peers to learn more about their successes. Making the work flow part of the workshop is always a good idea, especially set up tasks.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Augmented and Virtual Reality: Everyone is appropriately excited about the idea of overlaying educational graphics on the real world (augmented reality) or creating truly immersive virtual worlds (virtual reality). Enough providers are now doing it that it’s talked about enough to be at the peak of inflated expectations.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

These reports need to include: Information about specific activities, including the date of accredited activities, hours of instruction, type of activity, learners that completed the activity, and much more. Inquire about the level of support that the LMS provider offers. Automated PARS & Accreditation Reporting.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

It hosts your courses and discussion forums, empowers learners to track their progress, and tracks all of the data about your programming. They’ve taken a job or signed up to give their time with your organization for one guiding reason—they’re passionate about your cause. You could create a course about the history of your nonprofit.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

As we embark hundreds of years down the road from some of these grand musings and green field possibilities, it is important to look back and evaluate what we as humans have actually accomplished. In the Learning and Development world training has migrated from solely instructional and self-taught. E-Learnings. Microlearning.

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