Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Small Group Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation. Or, have them fold 8 x 11.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. In workshops, it is important to have a full group discussion about people's concerns about social media and a discussion about organizational readiness. Somewhat skeptical about the value of social media. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences. So, I had participants do a share pair with another person or team and discuss their target audiences. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. It is a technique that is used in Open Space design. Tips Training Design'

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APRIL 22, 2021

For example, they could assist with the search for a learning management system or consult on the pricing of your courses. To give you insight into what this might look like in action, let’s walk through the three steps that a Web Courseworks consultant would complete when consulting with your team about your learning business in general.

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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. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The topics we’re discussing, the ways in which we’re discussing them, who we can connect with— it’s all viewed through a pandemic-era lens. Adjustments to Course Design and Development. For example, let’s say you’re working from home. In a course about soliciting donations over the phone, don’t have the donor say “Hello.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Either way, we’d guess it looked quite different from the eLearning assessment types we’re going to discuss today. When done correctly, these assessments both provide data about your members and help those members reach greater heights in their continuing education efforts. This tests knowledge acquisition. Sequencing.

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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 research indicates that the human brain, on average, has the capacity to pay attention for about 10-12 minutes within an hour. With icebreakers, for example, you can use counting off or alphabetical order.

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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. If you look at the replies , you can see that it also got about 30 @replies, including replies where participants played the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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. Last month, I participated in the day-long convening of funders at the Media Impact Forum. ” This helped shift the energy and energize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. Incorporating movement isn’t just about stretch breaks, think about ways that participants can do discussions and small group exercises while moving or walking around.

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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

JUNE 28, 2016

They are often seen by others as highly efficient and not concerned about relationships or feelings. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Driving Style people control their emotions and speak assertively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. In my workshop design, I always include a “learning artifact” such as a “strategy poster” and time in the workshop for participants to present.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

But, before we dive into the five features that you should seek in your next CME LMS, let’s discuss why you’re seeking a new solution to begin with. For example, it’s easy to imagine new guidance around pandemic procedures on the horizon. For example: Members living in different geographical areas and as a result, different time zones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Even more inspiring was to learn more about the work that PopTech Fellows are doing to change the world. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context.

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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. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. It isn’t about content, although that is important. It resonated. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

An example would be getting your high-fidelity medical simulator to talk to your LMS and LRS. Augmented and Virtual Reality: Everyone is appropriately excited about the idea of overlaying educational graphics on the real world (augmented reality) or creating truly immersive virtual worlds (virtual reality).

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JULY 14, 2021

Taking a tech-fueled approach to nonprofit training comes with the following benefits: Increased Flexibility and Accessibility: One great example is volunteer orientation. With visuals of the form and walk-through examples, we were able to put the content into context and make the information easier to process. E-learning resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We learned about the country’s history, political complexity, religions, people, and ancient and contemporary life. So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

But, what about the software used to bring those courses to life? For example, your learning management system (LMS) may have course authoring functionality already available native to the system. Your team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and eLearning consultants work together to author content for your courses. 10+ Top Tools.

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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. We played with 6 groups of about 7 people each. All about the genius of the game and the value of learning from, or maybe that should be with, each other (see Beth’s post on social learning from last week).

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