Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

People are better at judging length, so bar charts are a decent option also useful for comparisons. Our brains make better sense of the data when we replace the legend with direct line labels. Stephanie Evergreen blogs , tweets , and trains on how to make awesome graphs, slides, and reports. Step 4: Directly Label.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. There are a couple of bonus slides in the deck about how to use metrics for podcasts and video. Use of metrics to measure your results. Communicating the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. He starts with how Lost gave us a control study with a comparison - Gilligan's Island - to compare the complexity. He showed a slide that illustrates Lost's Mysteries (e.g. They were presenting in Davos, Switzerland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." Here's a brain dump of some key points. Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit.

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