ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Nonprofit leaders have heard the call but are struggling to meet expectations due to a lack of basic resources, expertise and support. Some things to consider include: What resources (technology, space, materials, time, finances, etc.) Does the staff have any evaluation experience? Staff with position, rank, or experience.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Program Attitude Instruction 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it The model balances content, learning design, and participants. The ideas, tips, and tricks are grounded in adult learning theory, but the book is very practical. and discovered this book in the stream.

Skills 105

Skills Network Technique Evaluation 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

The title of this post is a play on a book I read The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith in 1998 when I was working with arts educators on integrating technology into their lesson plans. I would recommend technology resources and they would share books about learning. How can the two impulses be combined?

Twitter 50

Twitter Bookmarking Learning Theory RSS 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

" Loretta argues: The first supposition is that as various means are used to capture the proceedings of an event, (Nancy mentions: Chat/IRC, Videocasts, VOIPcasts, Podcasts, and Visual Facilitation), the performance of encapsulating and depicting is in itself learning. Using tools and a process, the words, ideas, experience, sounds, etc.,

Knowledge 50

Knowledge Collaboration Social Media Tools 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Both emphasize museums reaching out into the community to support, understand and experience what the community is already doing.

Museum 49

Museum Program Participatory Community 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences. Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. I did an experiment in my wording with the session introduction. Basically, the idea is that most organizations learn in a single loop that connects programs to results.

Slides 22

Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22