Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

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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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences that Connect, Inspire, and Engage. Training Design'

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Training Train Technology Instructional Design 114

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. Peer Assist brings together a group of peers to elicit feedback on a problem, project, or activity, and uses insights from the participants’ knowledge and experience.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

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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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Training Train Brain Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. intense days of meetings. The design incorporate many interactive learning techniques to ensure that participants were actively learning and sharing, and not falling asleep! Increase reach on social media channels.

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Network Build Learning Strategy 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. So, you have to design for that. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Manually generating reports, exporting them from your LMS, and submitting them to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) is a complicated, precise administrative burden for your team to tackle. Your association needs to report to PARS for all accreditation activities.

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Associations eLearning Module Course 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

While the purpose of assessments is to understand the knowledge of your members, they can also actively work to instruct your learners and help them improve. With proctoring capabilities, your association won’t be limited from facilitating assessments related to accreditation and licensing. Proctoring high-stakes exams.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project. 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.

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Leadership Develop Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post.

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Fund Campaign Practice Giving 130

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Inspire visitors to look, think, and respond actively to the works on view? We provided a guide to these locations for visitors at the activity table.

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Museum Arts Problem Design 45