TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Taking time to reflect on what makes you successful as a leader can be an important exercise in helping you grow. Many believe self-reflection and constructive criticism is the best way for us to grow as individuals. Interested in learning more?

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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. Medium: Up to 50 people. The connection between participants is less intimate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises. We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 6. Creative Use of Energizers: Avoiding the 3:00 PM My Brain Is Full Slump: No matter how engaging your content or instructional technique is – people get tired towards the end of a whole day of training. It is a well known fact that exercise helps you think better. (And

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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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. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” 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. Trainer Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

I really think that it is much more effective for learning than talking heads or expert brain dump. On the content side, I was surprised to hear the responses to the simplicity exercise - what could your organization do less of? Meetings was a big one, followed by worry!

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I have been using this technique for the past couple of months to incorporate walking and exercise into my day. The benefit of moving around helps with concentration. Capacity Reflection' Still, you have to get stuff done. How do you procrastinate? How do you get work done? What is your method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I used this a variety of ways: whiteboard interactive lecture and brainstorm; sticky note exercise; and student work space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The value of this exercise was that it inspired me to rethink my routine about bedtime rituals. hours per night, I felt a lot better and had much more discipline to start to build other healthy habits – such as daily exercise. Identify a goal, track your progress, and reflect on how to improve your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Group Idea Generation: After laying out the ground rules and a simple warm up exercise, participants are encouraged to share their ideas verbally. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. Say the ground rules for brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Your brain can't go on automatic pilot for mundane tasks because it has had to rewire neurons. It's like trying to get back into physical shape after you haven't been exercising for a while. . It uses a different part of the brain. It's the everything is new, different, and not familiar. I actually cheated a little bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. Here’s a round up closing plenary and a brief reflection about the plenary session and some great learning moments below. Mark of a good conference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, 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. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises. There was also excellent AV support and acoustics.

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APRIL 27, 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. There is also an self-assessment exercise. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

He lead us on a series of improvisation exercises designed to teach important skills for networked leaders: empathy, awareness, celebrating failure, being open to change and more. Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. Flexibility. Co-Creating.

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APRIL 14, 2022

This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology. saw audience members partnering up to conduct a team-building exercise built to skill up on development concepts in a fun, engaging manner. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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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. The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly. If you had the first group work on the simulation exercise, they'd be uncomfortable. We only had an hour for the exercise which is tight, so I simplified and had all the groups do the same simulation.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

No matter what the issue is, if people can see themselves, their families or their neighbors reflected, they are more likely to act for good. Initially, we act in small ways to satisfy the brain’s desire to take the path of least resistance. The brain is an economic model that is always trying to gain the largest return on investment.

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

His reflections remind me that I wish I could have immerse myself in the entire content (which was enormous) for the entire month, but those exercises and discussion that I managed to swoop into provided me with significant learning. It also reminded me that I haven't posted my own reflection.

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Gyrus

JUNE 21, 2016

But there is so much more to this branding exercise. When you think of brands like Coca-Cola or Walmart, there is a clearly defined color palette that tends to circle around in your brain. Your LMS should reflect your brand language and how you refer to well, stuff. Are nachos really just crunchy triangles with toppings on them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. PRIORITIES.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Beyond that, in the organizational environment, effective learnings must be applicable to daily life and reflect experiences that could be faced every day on the job. These touches will only increase the drive to accomplish the entirety of the learning exercise, as well as aid in. Also, please try not to make them boring. Interactive.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

It’s a new year, so that must mean it’s time for reflection. The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good , published almost exactly a year ago, was written by Donald W. Instead of adopting resolutions about what we eat, drink or how much we exercise, why not be guided by being thankful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. I "met" Dorine Ruter when we both participated in the online Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

January is a good time to reflect, recharge, and establish healthy habits that make us more effective in our nonprofit work. Train the brain to deal with chaos. Exercise empathy and compassion. Many of us work for nonprofits because we are passionate about social change missions. ” Model and encourage well-being practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate.

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MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Tami Simon offered a self-reflection on her technology use, she's a blackberry user, sharing her inner feelings on why she grabs her blackberry on a Friday evening. He said that there are only 24 hours in a day and you have to make choices about your time. Playfulness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain. I did a full-room reflection exercise before the break in the morning called "Let's Walk the Line."

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

Eating better, exercising more, finding a relaxing balance, etc. By thinking freely, I had no problem considering outrageous ideas to help, but my leadership brain applied the necessary guardrails to make practical and cost-effective decisions. Recognizing the need for change is easy. All of this is change.

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