Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. The game has a strong communications lens. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Adapting the Game from A Communications Lens to A Program Lens.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The best coaches achieve success with great game-plans, proper attention and research into proven methodologies, and an appreciation to their competitors and what their efforts for improvement may be. When you become a fan of college football, you do not just watch one game. These meetings will be very productive for your organization.

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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. I used the social media game as a peer assist exercise for the first time. Growing My Instructional Chops. Many people have also remixed it.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. Gamification: When we say game-based learning we mean learning activities that are games. Both are on the slope of enlightenment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for. While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process.

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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. Time Keeping: As I have learned from many years of facilitating the social media game workshop, a longer exercise needs to have the steps broken downand the facilitator needs to time each one to keep the group moving forward.

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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

JUNE 19, 2006

Reminds of something I read today about learning design and games. It came from Richard Van Eck's presentation "An Instructional Designer Looks at Digital Game-Based Learning." On pages 20-22 of the mega huge powerpoint bullet points [link] Was Gagne's Nine Events and how games embody them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Before we took a deep dive with Janet on social awareness skills, we had a short session on understanding non-verbal communication such as body language.

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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

However, we made it a fun e-learning game that’s much more engaging. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. Here are a few tips to help: Experiment with your formatting. We were tasked with creating a course about internet security— a topic that can be snooze-inducing on a good day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. . Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Every 4-6 six months, I blow up the game and start from scratch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning was designed around the Principles of Social Media Strategy and used a new version of the Social Media Game intended for a large group of people. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises. The Environmental Defense Fund has used the game for an internal training for 300 people.

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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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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Gaming scenarios: This scenario involves testing a learner’s skills using a gamified, perhaps less realistic application of the knowledge. Gamification or learning games is an engaging way to test your learners’ understanding without them actually feeling like they’re being tested. Gamification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I'm always overly critical about instructional delivery, and rely on evaluations to help hone and refine it. One of the instructional design flaws was that we assumed that all participants would be ready to write a draft social strategy as homework for the first night. I'd use the social media game as culminating activity.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

For example, seek functionality such as the ability to: Author courses with interactive video experiences, learning games, and hotspots and drag-and-drop experiences. Do they offer any additional professional services , such as instructional design, LMS administration, or even subject matter expert management?

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

They’ll bring technical course authoring and instructional design expertise to the table, so you’ll walk away with a course that teaches your staff members or volunteers to do their jobs better. . Build interactive and engaging learning elements, such as video, games, simulations and scenarios, and assessments. .

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

This includes all of the digital training materials that you provide, including full-on courses, infographics, job aids, quick video tutorials, learning games, and more. For instance, a game-based course about food bank shelf organization would be great for a food bank volunteer. E-learning resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

on a gray day with drinks just 30 minutes away, philanthropic communicators enjoyed the social media game (photo by Thom Clark). Tech in Maine where I did the beta version of the social media strategy game for Pop!Tech Last week, Gordon used a version of the game at a conference in NYC. Even at 4 p.m. Tech Fellows.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

There is a wide range of course authoring solutions on the market, from LMSs with built-in authoring functionality to independent tools targeting a specific type of course, such as learning games. Learning games. Mobile-responsive design for all interactive elements. What is course authoring software? Multimedia tools.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Because they’re so brief, microlearnings are quick to make, implement, and can be a real game changer for your training courses if implemented correctly. Are you yourself as an instructional designer capable of ripping out the fluff and unnecessary components in order to optimize the microlearning?

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

That being said, the platforms in which these games are being built are constantly evolving, giving designers better graphical capabilities, smoother operations, and in general more robust offerings. The concept of “funifying” learnings is here and an integral part of a modern learning approach. Microlearning.

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