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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love. Please leave a comment.

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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 enjoy sharing their ideas and perspectives openly with others. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Next Janet shared examples of empowering questions that help facilitate listening and coaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. In order to accomplish as much as possible, I have lived many of the ideas around self-care that in our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I worked with the Foundation Center to develop an online course about how nonprofits can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy. I continue to hone and improve my instructional practice and share tips with these many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training. My Three Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Program Design. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. This gives an opportunity for the audience to share their story and their knowledge. Adapting the Game from A Communications Lens to A Program Lens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

They communicate more effectively, stimulate new ideas, and apply what they hear to improve their team’s productivity and results. Like any other skill you want to improve, it helps to get a baseline assessment of your listening skills. Don’t Put People on the Defensive : Instead of “Did you make your sales goal?”

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JULY 8, 2021

Open-ended assessments are designed to have a learner share everything that they know about a specific topic. Proctored exams are those that are overseen by an assessment professional, with the goal of providing the same amount of time and assessment experience to each learner completing the test. Open-Ended Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. We had a lot of content to cover in two days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

For the last five years, I have been using Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words ” to identify three words that help you visualize your goals for the year. Last year, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. I love Bregman’s idea.

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JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker. This information was used to create some cards that participants could pick up and review.

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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. Objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

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. As a participant, you can also learn a lot by observing and reverse engineering the instructional design. Exercise #4: Leadership Dilemmas.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. aspect of the Forum Gallery by motivating visitors to share their own ideas and interpretations of the artwork with other visitors in physical and virtual formats. Reassert the "forum"? Thank you so much!

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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. (Reflections coming soon!) Last week, Gordon used a version of the game at a conference in NYC. His reflections below. It's been in my head. Some of the issues that Gordon describes below I've found creative ways to address those.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Communication is the ability to share ideas with others through various media, such as writing, presenting, listening, and technology. For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Communication is the ability to share ideas with others through various media, such as writing, presenting, listening, and technology. For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula.

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