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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” 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. 3. The Evaluation Survey.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Feng Shui of Good Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I select guests who can answer a specific set of questions related to my lesson plan or expand on an example of a campaign or example that I share. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. Nothing like first-person accounts. I ask them to generate a list of keep, tweak, and delete.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. I create lesson plans for every workshop where I ponder the instructional goals, what I know about the audience, the mechanics of the interactivity, the room layout, AV, and supplies. There are many ways to do it.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization.

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Coaching in your Learning and Development Program

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Or perhaps something more pertinent, such as, what lessons can we learn from these competitions and the pomp and circumstance that surround them? In these meetings present the employees with real-life practice problems or perhaps current departmental issues that best reflect the teachings of the lessons.

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