Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In this article, 10 Steps to Effective Listening , by educator Dianne Schilling provides the basic building blocks to effective listening. ” This builds trust and establishes your objectivity. It lets the speaker hear what they just said and can build trust. 2: Be present, practice mindful listening to the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. I wondered about a creative way to use already collected burning questions without taking up instructional time to rehash them again through an icebreaker. Comfort Levels. It's 90 minute workshop and there's a content to cover.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. ” This builds trust and establishes your objectivity. It lets the speaker hear what they just said and can build trust. Some formats help people develop deeper relationships and others help with cross pollination of ideas or build trust in the beginning of a workshop or meeting.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we provide professional services to help associations like yours build their ideal learning business. This could mean helping your association build its learning business from the ground up or providing guidance for future growth. Some of these services include: Creating a strategy for your learning business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Audience Research.

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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. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Yasmeen Qazi who is the Pakistan Country Advisor and her very talented team members, Dr. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. Program Design. Program Design. 4. Design To Build A Community of Practice. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I’m very interested in the train the trainer concept, so for my own learning I have been taking many trainings to learn new instructional techniques – hopefully gaining some empathy for being a student in a train the trainer session. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Resilience: This theme is related to all the writing, curriculum development, and instruction that I will do this year based on my work on the Emerging Leaders Playbook and The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But how do you get started building a program, especially if most of your funding comes from foundation grants? Before this, he was an Instructional Designer and Editor at Element K, a provider of learning solutions for businesses and nonprofits. George holds an MA and BA from Binghamton University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Each four-person team had 20 minutes to design and build a paper prototype for a new type of car radio. This lead into another technique we practiced called “Think Outloud User Testing,” where we conducted a user test of our paper prototype. This may be mean rapid prototyping as well as front-end research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Teaching: Teaching is my passion which is a good thing because my consulting work is designing and facilitating capacity building and training programs. You can find out more and register here. My Three Words.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Measuring this change has benefits for both your members and your learning business alike: For your learning business, understanding this change gives you insight into both the knowledge of your members and the efficacy of your courses to instruct them. What are the different types of online assessment? Proctored Exams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. . — Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014.

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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. Program Design. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Build up your social media strategy throughout the year so you have a ready audience on the big days like #GivingTuesday. It is possible for multiple giving days throughout the year to build upon each other rather than creating donor fatigue.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

Instead, effective content is and must be designed specifically for use on our handheld devices and tablets. More and more instructional designers and content providers are specializing in this medium and as the technology around them gets better Mobile Learning itself will continue to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated. Building on the futureme exercise, he encourage people to get the contact information for a colleague and connect following the conference.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

IOT Physical Simulators: The idea here is to build physical training devices that connect to online learning technology. The challenges of building these experiences have decreased as device manufacturers have provided application developers with new toolkits for developing applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

He said success is about building your network, and that is both on an institutional level as well as personal network building. He also noted that the future belongs to people who are good searchers and can synthesize information quickly. Instructional Design Notes. An effective digital team. Being Data Informed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. In addition, we had expert knowledge in the room from JD Lasica, Paul Lamb.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

These reports need to include: Information about specific activities, including the date of accredited activities, hours of instruction, type of activity, learners that completed the activity, and much more. As a baseline, will the provider be available to help you troubleshoot any challenges that arise with your LMS?

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JULY 14, 2021

Build opportunities for learners to practice. By building multiple levels into the game, the learner can practice their responses and learn from their mistakes multiple times in a risk-free environment. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

They’ll bring technical course authoring and instructional design expertise to the table, so you’ll walk away with a course that teaches your staff members or volunteers to do their jobs better. . Build interactive and engaging learning elements, such as video, games, simulations and scenarios, and assessments. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project. This year’s work will build on this past year. So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. The rafts were launched into the ocean in a race.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m very interested in seeing how this thinking can be applied more broadly to the social good and nonprofit sector. Stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This ranges from the ability to create hotspots, such as click to reveal and drag-and-drop elements, to the ability to build more complex interactive elements such as learning games. Interactive elements. Format conversion tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

One thing I haven't been doing over the years is documenting the instructional design or lesson plan. (Reflections coming soon!) Last week, Gordon used a version of the game at a conference in NYC. His reflections below. It's been in my head. Some of the issues that Gordon describes below I've found creative ways to address those.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula. With the rise of social media, this is more important than ever. Collaboration is the ability to work effectively and respectfully with others.

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