Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Here’s the description: Hands down, this is the most interactive session you will attend at 16NTC! Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Instructional Design. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Flexible Space: Designing for Interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences. Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. The learning objectives for the workshop were two fold: Participants understand best practices and how to apply. I thought the most helpful synthesis task would be a “design rationale.” Or, have them fold 8 x 11.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. Don’t just talk at them, interact! Don’t leave them hanging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. Movement helps wake them up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I came across the term “Learning Analytics” in an NPR story about the effectiveness of college lectures and ways to make learning more interactive. There are different definitions. The outcome for this webinar was: To leave the webinar ready to take one small step towards improving social media measurement practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. The scribe should only interact with the lead facilitator, not the group.

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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

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

They also had a chance to interact with peers with different styles to learn more. This section started out with a mini-session on practical skills for self-management so your emotions don’t run away with you. Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time.

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

It can dual in purpose as a means to view landmarks that have been long forgotten, as well as force social interaction that hadn’t previously existed. Lending to even further advancements in mLearnings engagement and potential. Social Feeds have aided in the Pokémon growth enormously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change. Assessment Framework and Theory of Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Pay close attention to interactions with other people. 2: Be present, practice mindful listening to the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

When it comes to eLearning assessments, there is a wide range of possibilities when it comes to interactivity and engagement. What eLearning assessment best practices can strengthen your courses? Then, we’ll wrap up with a few best practices to take your assessments to the next level. Let’s dive in. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. Movement can also incorporate what you’re training on.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Instructional designers have been trying for years to come up with the perfect teachings for organizational entities, with learnings ranging from electronic, social, micro, mobile, instructor-led, and blended. Let the students interact with each other on what they have learned.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Providing situations where the complete picture of a role is thought out from the first interaction to some of the most difficult interactions an employee may face. Practice makes perfect. How do we further the reach of our learnings?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee noted that if you read all the comments, there was tons of discussion about lots of issues around this – from corporate employee practices, privacy, religion, minimum wage policies, spiritual beliefs and practices, vigilantism, corporate social media policies and the list goes on. Instructional Design Notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

Instead, effective content is and must be designed specifically for use on our handheld devices and tablets. More and more instructional designers and content providers are specializing in this medium and as the technology around them gets better Mobile Learning itself will continue to improve.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Administering continuing medical education (CME) is no simple task— from the advanced accreditation reporting to the ongoing evolution of medical best practices, it can be a huge administrative task for your team. Evolving Medical Practices. No one wants to interact with a CME LMS that’s clunky and hard to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. It isn’t about content, although that is important. Geoff Livingston did a great live blog post on the content.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. 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. You’ll notice that right away below the fold. Innovation Trigger.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Elevated Engagement and Interactivity: At Artisan, we worked with the American Red Cross to transform a less-than-engaging PowerPoint into a self-paced e-learning course. Now that we’ve discussed the benefits of technology in nonprofit training, let’s get into the nitty-gritty of what this looks like in practice.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

The partner creates a prototype of the course to illustrate key design elements and the overall direction of the course. . Details such as interactive elements, assessments, and visual elements are included. . Build interactive and engaging learning elements, such as video, games, simulations and scenarios, and assessments. .

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2020

In today’s interview with sgENGAGE Podcast veteran and Blackbaud University instructional designer Jocelyn Wright, you’ll learn more about why a welcome series is important, why they are valuable even in an email overload world, and what the best practices are for developing an email welcome series.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

The LMS is vital in organizing these different types of learnings, as well as shaping the way in which you interact with training and development content. ” As such the LMS evolved, giving employees the opportunity to work together on modules, evaluate courses they are taking, and directly interact with each other in learning options.

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eLearning Mobile eLearning Industry Training 66

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

THE CHALLENGE Carnegie Museum of Art director Lynn Zelevansky challenged us to find a way to overcome a major practical problem with our Forum Gallery space: how to get visitors to enter a gallery that is often obscured by a large wall that blocks the light from the large lobby windows nearby. SOLUTION: POST-IT NOTES? Thank you so much!

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