Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences. Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.

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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. Read Danielle’s blog post ). I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. Don’t just talk at them, interact! Ask questions.

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Forj

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Although I don’t expect instructional designers to leap from their desk chairs and start dancing in glee, the Department of Defense’s statement is an important symbol of change in the industry. I’m not going to delve deeply into the advantages and disadvantages of xAPI in this blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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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 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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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

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. The scribe should only interact with the lead facilitator, not the group.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Providing situations where the complete picture of a role is thought out from the first interaction to some of the most difficult interactions an employee may face. Be sure to join me and Gyrus Systems as we further investigate the Learning industry and all that it entails here at the Gyrus Systems Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. This blog post is a summary of my notes from the day. Instructional Design Notes. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. Digital Trends. The importance of experimentation and learning from failure.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Instructional designers have been trying for years to come up with the perfect teachings for organizational entities, with learnings ranging from electronic, social, micro, mobile, instructor-led, and blended. Let the students interact with each other on what they have learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

One of the successes was how most participants are learning to balance the strategic with the spontaneous of social media as described in this blog post. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. Increase reach on social media channels. Cultivate “super fans”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. 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? Social Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I suspect the same sorts of things happen when you are doing a powerpoint monologue or long lecture without any movement, interaction, or holding all questions until the end. This is not learning – and I dare say that it isn’t healthy for folks either to be sitting so long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. Program Design. 4. Design To Build A Community of Practice. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated. I will also share my notes and reflections on other sessions at the conference in a second blog post. Closing Keynote Plenary Session. Mark of a good conference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

They also had a chance to interact with peers with different styles to learn more. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Learning Objectives: Understand why it is important to incorporate social media tools in your instructional practice for trainings. How to think like a social instructional designer. I also try to identify a framework that will help me design the content. Audience Research. Materials and Lesson Plan Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. This may include some personal exploration like setting up their profile on social networking site or even a blog. Gordon Meyer has good reflection on the Community Media Workshop Blog). (2) Comfort Levels.

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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. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Pay close attention to interactions with other people. Reflective listening skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a team meeting, training, or interacting with co-workers and whether you are the facilitator or a participant. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

When it comes to eLearning assessments, there is a wide range of possibilities when it comes to interactivity and engagement. These assessments are more traditional, less interactive, and held to strict standards. This includes the creation of next-generation online learning courses and instructional design services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Geoff Livingston did a great live blog post on the content.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

No one wants to interact with a CME LMS that’s clunky and hard to use. This allows members and your team to interact with your LMS even when not connected to an internet network and simply save the information to the LMS once you’re reconnected. Intuitive Interface for Users and Administrators. Offline use with automatic sync.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Guest post blog submitted by: Artisan E-Learning, a nonprofit e-learning consultant. Elevated Engagement and Interactivity: At Artisan, we worked with the American Red Cross to transform a less-than-engaging PowerPoint into a self-paced e-learning course. Include interactive elements to make courses engaging.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Course authoring software platforms empower learning professionals, often alongside content development experts, to author, design, and assemble eLearning courses for learners. Interactive elements. With CourseStage LMS, you can create the following in your courses: Interactive video experiences. Format conversion tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

For the last five years, I have been using Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words ” to identify three words that help you visualize your goals for the year. Last year, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. As a participant, you can also learn a lot by observing and reverse engineering the instructional design.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

The LMS is vital in organizing these different types of learnings, as well as shaping the way in which you interact with training and development content. ” As such the LMS evolved, giving employees the opportunity to work together on modules, evaluate courses they are taking, and directly interact with each other in learning options.

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