Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time! Most likely, there will be some content delivery you share during your workshop. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter. Your design is not just about content. Then I block out 90 minute and 75 minute modules with 15 minute breaks in between.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

For 2017, we be launching an online site that includes the content and facilitator guides so that any nonprofit or trainer can provide leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. I also continued my position as Adjunct Professor teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. Are students just checking their email and tuning out or does the laptop help them think? blame the internet! :-).

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