Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Training Train Design Classroom 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Chris Sacca quipped that he usually attends technology conference where most people in the audience are buried in their smart phones or laptops and that this conference was the one where felt the mostly everyone was paying attention to him. She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others.

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Blackberry Attention Mind Phone 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. We arranged for wifi in the room and asked participants to bring their laptops). The Power of Social Learning: Online and Offline . I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement. When facilitator says go, everyone moves so that they are always equidistant between those two people who they chose. His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

FrontlineSMS:Medic helps coordinate health workers using FrontlineSMS , a free software platform enabling large-scale, two-way text messaging using a laptop, mobile phones, and a GSM signal. FrontlineSMS:Medic - SMS for Medical Records and Mobile Lab Diagnostics. First Place: $25,000.

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I was networking weaving between the offline/online. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages.

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Switzerland Aggregator Blogher Social Media 50