Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. It also provided a nice transition between sections, giving people a little brain break to digest the information. What to do? Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2013

I will sometimes take notes on my laptop during a conference session or webinar if I am planning to do a write up. I prefer these tools when I’m capturing a discussion from a meeting that focused on a designing a program or a reflective conversation. I also wonder if there is an impact on being creative?

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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. The session was so engaging and informative that, as soon as the session ended, I logged into my laptop and set up CI jobs in my project to get practice setting up my own pipelines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” One of my favorites is Ommwriter which turns your laptop into an old fashion word processor. However, if you have to do “work” on Facebook, here’s some work flow tips for avoiding distraction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. We arranged for wifi in the room and asked participants to bring their laptops). Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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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. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On. We are working very closely with V.S. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual).

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