Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. I created a storify of the tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. paper into quarters, number the spaces, and answer the questions or draw pictures.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. For example, you could ask learners to: Create a timeline. Sequencing.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? Creating a content development strategy. That’s great! Final Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The team’s first planning session should be one of learning about each’s other trade craft versus diving into the design of the session. That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

To mark Valentine’s Day, I took some inspiration from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the vintage Valentine’s Day Cards pinterest board to create a presentation about social media measurement love. Bonus: Spreadsheet Appreciation. Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I had to learn how to create web pages, manage email, modem escape codes, navigate the Internet, and whatever came along. And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. Ask questions. Reign in your facts, figures and stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail?

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Forj

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Although I don’t expect instructional designers to leap from their desk chairs and start dancing in glee, the Department of Defense’s statement is an important symbol of change in the industry. SCORM authoring tools are intended to create standardized curricula content that can easily be moved from one LMS to another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

This took an extensive amount of planning and design on our part, an estimated 30 hours. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. A frequent question Peter is asked about how an organization can become more innovative. “What are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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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. Even asking direct questions doesn’t result in replies. How can we get people to talk to us? 4. Make it Buzzworthy.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When it comes to training, your staff has new questions. Let’s explore a few big changes and how you can create custom-developed courses to incorporate them. Adjustments to Course Design and Development. Custom-designed, relatable courses. Creative, engaging design decisions. Evolutions in Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. 3. Create A World Fusion Curriculum. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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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

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants took the “Columbia Leadership Styles” diagnostic created by Paul Ingram and Bruce Craven in 2013 that session leader Jeffrey Golde had customized for arts leaders. Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Ask Good Questions. Often, these types of questions focus on failure or betray that the questioner has an agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. In other words, to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

But none of this would not have been possible if not for the dedication, vision, and leadership from Andrew Means, who has passionately been working on creating a learning community of nonprofit professionals interested in data for social change called Data Analysts for Social Good. Markets for Good (@MarketsForGood) May 1, 2015.

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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. It doesn’t empower you to create new content and keep up with the latest developments in your field.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

A better system would (1) quantify the educational value provided by CE providers, (2) create a race to the top in which CE providers were awarded an allowance of credits that they could market in return for the value they created. When we open that can of worms, we’ll know we’ve reached the trough of disillusionment.

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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. Participants create a poster of their networks, view other the network maps of others, and then do a debrief.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. I select what I questions I do based on answers in an online pre-survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

After the workshop in Ohio, one of the participants thanked me, saying that creating a strategy for integrated social media had been on their to do list after taking a workshop last Spring, but had never gotten around to doing it. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

These platforms are what elevate a static PDF or slide show presentation to greater heights, creating courses that are engaging, interactive, and full of multimedia elements. Work with an eLearning consultant or content development partner to create your courses. The choice between these two options depends on a few different factors.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Users have to watch it, then they have to answer some questions, then they have to click a couple things. Are you yourself as an instructional designer capable of ripping out the fluff and unnecessary components in order to optimize the microlearning? Is it something that lacks the complexity to warrant an entire eLearning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. What metrics will you use to measure success? And everyday until….

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

In the Learning and Development world training has migrated from solely instructional and self-taught. A simple question of “How can we get our department to motivate one another? To completely accessible without time requirement, electronic, as well as mobile learning platforms. Microlearning.

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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. Another trainer is adapting the game for use in a large environmental organization will be creating a train the trainers guide and template and it will be added to the site. It's been in my head.

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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 6, 2017

Now that we’ve created solutions for easily defined problems, it’s time to focus our attention toward complex problems. For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula. click below to save your seat!

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Now that we’ve created solutions for easily defined problems, it’s time to focus our attention toward complex problems. For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula. click below to save your seat!

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