Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. I also gave them a summary of recent research from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute about giving motivations for women’s and girl’s causes. If you know me, sticky notes and marker were also involved.

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Forj

JUNE 28, 2017

In conferences, there’s definitely a sense of comradery: you’re an instructional designer? I am giving my presentation as a webinar. This was my first time attending the conference, but I still got that familiar feeling of excitement from being around colleagues in my field. Let’s talk shop. Talk shop we did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this.

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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. I typically draw a vertical line down my notebook page, and label each column “Content” and “Instructional Process” to capture both types of notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Materials and Lesson Plan Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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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. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

When doing interactive sessions, you also have to give a nod to the introverts in the room who don’t always process well by having a conversation with someone they don’t know. So, one of the things I highly value about instructional design is the time and space to reflect on what worked and what didn’t work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

In 2016, I completed my work as facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. It is also a pivotal year for many community foundations as they consider whether to ramp up or wind down giving day initiatives in their communities. My Three Themes: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. When more than one more person wants to speak, you acknowledge and give them a order to speak. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. That’s why I love looking and testing different methods. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

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. Many associations were faced with the challenge of canceling or going virtual with in-person learning events in 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? I am particularly grateful to Cindy Leonard who compiled and consolidated our slides based on the design. I’ve done this for many projects and it is a difficult design task when you are doing it as the sole trainer. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Measuring this change has benefits for both your members and your learning business alike: For your learning business, understanding this change gives you insight into both the knowledge of your members and the efficacy of your courses to instruct them. What are the different types of online assessment? Proctored Exams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In addition to the Emerging Leaders Peer Learning project, I continued to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts.

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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. Avoid giving it all away in the headlines. Also, don’t give it away in the meta-description. Or just keep your ears open.

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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

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. Using this visual techniques , allows participants to give each other feedback and also see points of connection.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Ask them to be ready to share and challenge their friends and give them some sample social media posts they can use. It is possible for multiple giving days throughout the year to build upon each other rather than creating donor fatigue. Engage your supporters – tell them you have something special coming for #GivingTuesday.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We are not all instructional designers, and even when we are, there is a chance that on our own, we are unable to truly capture the requirements of the learners within our organization. That can be traceable and effective, giving appropriate tricks and tips on how to be more effective within certain roles within an organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn?

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Courses need to be actionable and give learners the tools to be more effective in their jobs. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. Now to tie things back to e-learning: we know that the purpose of an e-learning course is to teach staff members how to do their jobs better.

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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. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders. Amiable Style people show their emotions openly and prefer to ask questions rather than give orders. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. Full attention listening: Giving full focus and attention to the other person. 5: Don’t interrupt or jump into giving advice. Ask Good Questions. 3: Don’t judge the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

There were 2o people in the dining party, and AppleBee’s policy is to add the 18% tip automatically to any parties over 6. The bill was divided up and Alois Bell wrote on her receipt, “I give God 10% why do you get 18%?” Instructional Design Notes. ” Lots of comments pros and cons. Being Data Informed.

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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. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. In addition, we had expert knowledge in the room from JD Lasica, Paul Lamb.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

This gives staff members and volunteers ample opportunities to learn a topic (as opposed to hearing it once during an in-person training session). E-learning can give you insight into course completion, the results of various assessment elements throughout the course, and even logistical aspects such as how long the course took.

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Training Train Tech Tips 52

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. Who are the people you want to reach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

The trip was packed with opportunities for us to reflect on our leadership and values, pursue our passion for crafting powerful stories and identify ways that we want to “repair the world” by giving back. So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design.

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