Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. The chart writer’s role is to captures the groups ideas. Whenever possible, the chart writer writes down the speaker’s exact words. It is basically a pause. It helps people process complex thoughts.

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Facilitation Technique Chart Method 121

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Delight: Check out these charts and graphs! Denial: You can’t measure social media! Fear: What if we find out our social media didn’t perform well! Confusion: I don’t know what or how to measure social media. Measurement Love: Connecting measurement to decision-making and getting better results.

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Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 96

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’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events.

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Social Media Headline Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for. While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

(see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective.

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Learning Objectives: Understand why it is important to incorporate social media tools in your instructional practice for trainings. How to think like a social instructional designer. I also try to identify a framework that will help me design the content. Integrating Twitter as A BackChannel into Instruction.

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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Each facilitator’s “corner” has two pieces of flip chart paper on the wall which was divided into a two x two grid and a stack of colored sticky notes.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 76