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Rethinking Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations

Tech Soup

One of my favorite pieces of advice is to remember that your economy of language is incredibly important when creating your slides. When creating your slides, you want your words to be complementary to your verbal presentation, not identical. What does "economy of language" mean? Bobbi Newman, Why Transliteracy?

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Social Instructional Design.

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Being brave at the top of the slide

Connection Cafe

She provides examples and click-by-click instructions. And hearing strategic marketing advice from my coworkers chiming in has made a difference, too. Because that's the feeling at the top of a water-slide, too. And the tone is so encouraging and helpful. She admits she has to muster some bravery. You can't see the endpoint.

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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Extension 2.0 in Ten Easy Steps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It really helped me think through the final instructional delivery, specifically how to manage popping between the powerpoint slide and sharing the desktop (web browser) and how to integrate participation. The slides and resources list are on the wiki. I also got a few leads to more blogs by Extension Professionals.

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My First Intergenerational Social Media: Learning from Gen Z's and Value of Different Points of View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonetheless, there is a nonprofit perspective and my instructional materials and experience speak to that audience. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. Then had a discussion having the ready folks give advice to the not ready. . So, I changed delivery tactics and it worked!

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.