Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design.

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Training Train Design Classroom 123

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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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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. 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. This has had an impact on the design of the cards, game instructions, etc.

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Social Media Game Media Social 87

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JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

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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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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I must also memorize how to skip around in powerpoint without flipping through slides. What worked? What didn't?

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Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

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. His slides and my notes and reflections follow. ask each member of the circle to pick two people, but don't tell them.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93