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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. There are two different methods to evaluate your training.

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Learn You Will: #14ntc Nonprofit Tech Training Session Reflection and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session

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Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Instructional Design. Design Labs.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instructional design is more than just delivering the content, so this post shares some of the thinking that went into designing a learning experience where people will apply what they learned. The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. In addition, I write a reflection on my lesson on what I felt worked best or how to modify for the next time. I ask them to generate a list of keep, tweak, and delete.

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. We had a lot of content to cover in two days. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment. My debrief of the two-day workshop.