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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. The flexible classroom is a large open space. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I most often have to hack the space.

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. For this exercise, it would have been helpful to have people in each group with some prior real life experience designing an ROI study. What are your tips and tricks for designing and delivering effective webinars?

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. So, you have to design for that. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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Nonprofit Focused Workshops at SXSW Interactive Festival: Join Us!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art classrooms. The workshops are included in the price of an Interactive, Gold, or Platinum Badge.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. Year in Review.