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 17, 2005

Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. But it required some editing to make it link the tag to Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. " What if you linked your tag words to something?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Google undoubtedly grew tired of updating and developing two tools that couldn’t accurately reflect the type of complex user journeys we see today, where people switch between apps, mobile browsers, and desktops frequently. In our webinar, we provide step-by-step instructions! Why is Google making this change? Implement it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Tags as a metric. What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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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. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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JULY 8, 2021

Measuring this change has benefits for both your members and your learning business alike: For your learning business, understanding this change gives you insight into both the knowledge of your members and the efficacy of your courses to instruct them. What are the different types of online assessment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

Well, I'm rolling up my sleeves as Jordan V would say and as Sean Power suggests will be writing a post to share insights about what I've learned from today's action learning experiment about real time tracking, analytics, metrics, and reflection. I'll also share some insights about instruction. Tags: birthday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. And, the sand box needs to be more play than formal instruction. Reflection at the end to harvest learnings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. You can also tags. To celebrate, I concocted an action learning experience in user generated content, the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. 54 people joined the group. (It

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I'm remembering some tagging ice breakers I've used both online and offline that incorporate the concept of social bookmarking and tagging that I've used. Burning Questions Playing the Social Media Game Reflection at the End.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

However, with interactive exercises there is a time lag – so I did a little exercise in the beginning to do some social engineering in the room. We had folks color code their name tags. I tend to take a lot of photos to document the training approaches and use that for reflection to improve training techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

Many of my presentations are training, so it is also thinking through the instructional delivery. When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. Tags: powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Think about those 4th grade science experiments where huddled over your experiment you all learn together. The instruction not only included the content – all the best practices and how-tos, but also took an approach that encouraged and developed reflection. Participant-Generated Instructional Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

tags: arts ). That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also need written instructions for the steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

As I was reflecting about Slideshare and thinking about the characteristics of nonprofits featured in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , I realized that Slideshare is a haven for them. Tags: Presenting Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design slideshare webinar. Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

In reading Marshall's excellent reflection about teaching RSS techniques , I came across a comment from Nick pointing to some curriculum he is developing and teaching to faculty on using RSS for their research work. Technorati Tags: RSS , instruction , teaching , learning , adoption , training , effectiveness , nptech , net2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. We knew what was coming.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

This was reflected again in a great encounter I had at the Walter's Art Museum later in the weekend, when a silver-haired, well-coiffed lady (the perfect image of a traditional museum goer) told me "I get so annoyed by how quiet museums are. The instruction becomes a kind of social object that gives people something to talk about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

When it comes to tagging, I'm Felix, not Oscar. Not only have I confessed this on my blog, but I went as far to compare tag sloppiness to car slopiness. And one colleague, the ever so brilliant, Alexandra Samuels agreed and came to the rescue with some tips to help tidy up my tag collection. I will be honest. Yes, it got messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To stop being a digital slob in terms of my hard drive, tagging habits, flickr photo annotation, blog posts, etc. I'm going to continue to play and reflect and learn about technology tools and how they can be used to support nonprofits and to create instructional material. But maybe I can be fast and neater?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

I asked how she did that and she pointed me over to these simple how-to instructions ). We've placed relationships as an outcome or result using the techniques of listening, learning, reflection, micro-planning, and adapting. Tags: Books. She asked me if I would write about it or Tweet it. Giving Good Poke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

After seeing Nancy White's experiment and discovering Amit Agarwal's excellent instructions for. The instructions from Digital Inspiration were fantastic, but I made a few newbie mistakes that took me more time and were a little frustrating: 1.) So, I had to google the tag to find an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Some reflection questions: How to make it clear that anyone add or edit the wiki? Ben Sheldon suggested adding tags to pages based on editing task or completion - so people could find "clean slates. Sort of the balance between be expert driven instruction and constructvism or the line between training and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Why add KB or MB to the file size when my content instructional. I also discovered CCMixter and where you search for music by tag. Since I'm mostly creating instructional video, I have to ask myself - how much does this enhance the learning or ability to retain? I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

If there was all-day instruction on the Web 2.0 In reflection, after watching both Preetam's video and Thomas Wanoff's video of the game in process, I guess I should be so hard on myself. workshop, I spoke about tagging. After the workshop, John Weeks created a Khmer image for tagging using Angkun. During the Web2.0

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AUGUST 11, 2010

" There emerged in this discussion thread a "case study," that I felt was both inspiring and instructive. Tags: accidental techie case study Change Management change management Leadership nonprofit leadership NPTech Planning. fell into this field by discovering an interest or aptitude for technology while.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2008

This is what separates Daisy from all the instructional graphics and "What do YOU thinks?" Tags: usercontent interactives. Because the talkback station doesn't listen. Daisy may not be complex, but she's highly responsive. She wants to understand you, and you want to help her understand. we can put on screens.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Nancy White tagged me to participate in an interesting meme. Here is a definition from the Campus Compact site : Service-learning is a teaching method which combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Thread Studio contains two embroidery tables with designs printed on burlap and instructions for stitching, as well as a variety of looms on the wall on which visitors can weave with unconventional materials like jump ropes, vines, and bungee cords. They’re tagging with yarn.

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