Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Learning Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

One of my favorites was this terrific warm up from John Kenyon to help you when you are about to present. Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. Rachel Hassinger (@solidarity4just) March 15, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps. It also helps participants take risks in trying new techniques because they have the support of their peers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While most of the tech experts used lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice as their pedagogical approach and we did some pre-session surveys, it was still important for us to get to better understanding of the skill, knowledge, and mindsets of the participants once in the room. This helps the interpreters prep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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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. These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? What changes in knowledge, or attitudes, or skills are you looking for, and how might they be measured? Evaluation.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 3, 2019

From there, you can focus on fine-tuning those qualities in their potential successors, and, vice versa, examining which new skills your future leaders will bring to the table that the person in the current position may lack. Yes, things like training materials, conferences and lectures are helpful, but they’re inefficient on their own.

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