Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Additionally, supplementing the teachings found within the book, Sonnenberg provides you with more learning opportunities via free content and in-depth instructions at ComeUpForAir. Nick Sonnenberg Play special attention to the Three Key Takeaways and Pro Tips that expertly summary each respective chapter's teachings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. How do we teach leaders to know when emergence is working? Participants would have clickers and would be instructed to click every time they felt some discomfort.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Nonprofit Fundraising Support One of my favorite pieces of Greater Giving is that they have a robust Help section with a plethora of articles, instructions, and tutorial videos to teach new and experienced users alike the correct way to set up each of the elements in the software to best support your unique event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. How to think like a social instructional designer. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Check out his newest video about social bookmarking. I love instructional videos. So, I need to really cull down what I'm teaching to essence and provide good step-by-step docs as leave behinds. Click To Play. Lee LeFever has done it again! I use a lot of visual humor and it is probably to Americentric.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2011

Amber's specialty is instruction, and though she's moved on from driving the mobile lab, she shared some great insights with us about creating instructional and informational videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Micro-learning online courses consist of a video, an info-graphic or list of tips, and a set of instructional or assessment questions that help us think differently about the topic and find something bite size to apply immediately. The first two are available now for free.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Our learning instruction we receive from youth into early adulthood is fairly regimented; teachers are taught how to convey information to students, and for the most part, they engage in the same methodology across their efforts. Convey teachings in a manner that doesn’t sound like a dictionary definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

I took this video so I could show it to the kids. It's slow, but he is able to teach a lesson to the students about how to find supplementary materials for their school assignments. Mam Sary also received several of the video cameras that Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson brought over. I got a tour of the girls dorm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Tobais Eigen captured it on video. Autumn Patterson ( @nerddotorg ) took excellent notes of the key points during the session. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching. Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week, I became completely intoxicated with the online videos of Vi Hart , self-described mathemusician. Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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Bloomerang

MAY 29, 2021

Here is advice from several providers to give you a general idea: Bloomerang : YouTube video with instructions for coding gifts as “in-kind” in the “Fund” field and entering a gift value of $0. You can then select either “good” or “service” and type the estimated value in the FMV field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

It was particularly rewarding to see instructional techniques (the social media game ) that I had developed and been using since 2007 used by someone else. Both language and what you’re teaching. Even if you have a video with sub-titles, the speakers might be speaking too fast. Mary did a fabulous job!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. In the above video, Naeema Zarif. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants. Each group was told to use words, text, audio, or video and then we presented to the whole group.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Whether you're educating yourself or your staff, or teaching others technical skills, we can help you stay up-to-date on the latest technology, fundraising tools, or development strategies. Access donated live instructional QuickBooks seminars with QuickBooks Made Easy, now available in TechSoup Limited. Photo: phonakins.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

From investing in upgraded LMS technology to creating a learning business plan to instructional design, each task involves a specific skill set that the average association professional may not have. However, creating a formal learning business within your organization is a whole new ballgame. Virtual event planning.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

– Plan a weekly “teach in” series about COVID facts and advice. Facilitate a virtual gathering for supporters to make masks together, with instructions on material to buy. – Host virtual story time or recess where kids play together on Zoom video. Raise awareness of critical, life-saving COVID-19 measures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above. It's slow, but he is able to teach a lesson to the students about how to find supplementary materials for their school assignments. (The Computer education groups repeat on a rotating basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning included a brief presentation about the principles of social media strategy based on what I’ve been teaching for the past 5 years. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

TikTok is a social media platform that allows users to generate 15-second videos and host live streams. At first, the ability for users to quickly gain fame through their videos is what made the app so appealing to teenagers, but for-profit companies caught wind of the speed at which content could go viral and wanted to get in on the action.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

To give all donors an at-home virtual screening, consider livestreaming the video online. These categories can be: Most money raised Most shares on a post Most likes Most views on a video. Not only are they simple to host with the right livestreaming or video conferencing software, almost anyone can lead them. DIY Fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

Using the David Wesch's video " The Machine is Us/ing Us " was an effective teaching method for filmmakers. I had to restate the instructions again and I said, "Write down on the back of the $20 bill" Rather than painfully print and cut up the cards myself, I used kinkos. It did with Extension Professionals.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Ten or eleven years ago, when I was learning HTML and Web site creation (in the very early days) and teaching arts organizations, I always started with an exercise called " Critical Browsing." The screencast is done MTV style - that is it is like a music video - visuals and music - no narration. Instructional.

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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. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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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. Decreased Non-Dues Revenue. For your association, providing CE credits isn’t just a benefit for your members— it’s a business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2007

My Logo, Cambodian Style by Virak Now that I finished the campaign to raise the money to get myself to Cambodia to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit, I've been very busy preparing instructional materials. I'm very excited to be teaching Web2.0 and video blogging to Cambodians and a delivering a keynote!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2015

Particularly for children with special needs, LOH can't ask families to come to just one location for dance instruction and performance. LOH also plans to conduct a large conference for dance instructors to teach them how to include children of all abilities in dance classes.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For undergraduate instruction, you may get a break if you are in-state vs. out-of-state. The seminar presenters don’t necessarily come with advanced degrees, or any degree at all, but they are usually well-vetted by the sponsor organization for their practical experience in what they’re teaching. Live Webinars and Online Conferences.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? instructional video. an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? E-mail marketing. event managment. Feedburner. Fundraising. General News. Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! 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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Step #1) G – Get the FOA/RFP/NOFA The first step in developing a grant template with the GRANTS formula is to G et the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) or Request of Proposal (RFP) or NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability): i.e. the grant instructions. As the rivers disappear, we mourn; agriculture is suffering.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Book entertainment like a live band and add in videos of your emcee showing off various auction items to drive bids and give your participants a better idea of what they’re bidding on. Do you have some avid video gamers amongst your supporters? Don’t be afraid to get creative! Game-a-thon. Virtual scavenger hunt. Serve-a-thon.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

They’ll bring technical course authoring and instructional design expertise to the table, so you’ll walk away with a course that teaches your staff members or volunteers to do their jobs better. . Build interactive and engaging learning elements, such as video, games, simulations and scenarios, and assessments. .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Now you can let people know about your upcoming church event in a fun, free way using the power of video. Instead of paying to advertise in local newspapers, I took a few minutes to record three short video interviews with Randy and Monica over Skype. Here's the second of the three videos we shot. For the better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Immediately after Molly’s presentation, we sent a company-wide email with instructions on how to sign up as a fundraiser. They decided to use soccer to teach adolescents, primarily girls, about the dangers of HIV, how to protect themselves from STIs and sexual abuse, and how to build confidence beyond their teenage years! Clark, M.D.

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