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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. This six-step instructional model is called “ENGAGE.”

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory. Documentation.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Equal Rights Advocates. The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo: Americans for the Arts. Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. ” I like to use this one after lunch when people’s energy usually dips.

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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

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Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. Other times, I simply made them stretch like the photo above. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Program Design. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

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