The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It can reach a larger number of people in a shorter amount of time than in-person training. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. By Guest Contributor, Amy Morrisey , Artisan E-Learning. Many nonprofits are interested in using e-learning to train staff members and volunteers. Guest Contributor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Nothing like first-person accounts. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructional design. They can follow up with questions on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

So, I had participants do a share pair with another person or team and discuss their target audiences. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. One might think, oh no, this is impossible. But learning from adjacent practices can also be quite rich.

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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. With a small amount of time, focusing on one person’s actual problem takes less time. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. A bonus delivery tip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. I worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to design, development and facilitate training on how staff can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy, including a special session training your attention online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Next, each person got to introduce themselves and their challenge, while the instructor, Pete Maher, expertly facilitated a network map on the wall. It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for. This may be mean rapid prototyping as well as front-end research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

When more than one more person wants to speak, you acknowledge and give them a order to speak. Sometimes the person’s statement is too long and complex to be recorded verbatim, so the facilitator assists by paraphrasing or breaking it down so the scribe can write the condensed version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise. 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, 2016

During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. But as we all know, changing personal habits isn’t easy for a lot of people. I write down stuff I won’t do, a “no thanks” list.

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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. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In this HBR article about asking empowering questions, the benefits are clear: An empowering question does more than convey respect for the person to whom it’s posed. A disempowering question, on the other hand, undercuts the confidence of the person to whom it’s asked and sabotages her performance. 3: Don’t judge the other person.

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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. For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks to express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have debate get in the way of the instructional flow later on.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 76

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. Things like, “Hey, Awesome Marketing Person, your most recent blog changed the way in which I view our product.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Relationships, feelings and personal security are important to Amiable Style people. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Others see them as slow-paced and detail-oriented. Others see them as friendly and warm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated. They suggested looking for a person who has the curiosity to ask the right questions, learns quickly and is good with storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Instructional Design Notes.

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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. Then each person gets to speak with another participant for 7 minutes and we do 6 or 7 rounds of speed dating.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

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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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

I personally am out of poké balls and am unable to join in on the fun at current moment… perhaps I’ll take a lunch time walk down to the nearest poké stop. I myself have been charmed by the application and find myself turning it on at night time just to see what’s around me as I’m sitting on the couch.

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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. I need to remind myself that when I bring social media instruction into a different context, I need to also learn as much as I can about the instructional content of other people on the team. .

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

You’ve had to adjust to this pandemic-era lifestyle in both your personal and working life— and do so quickly. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. The mass migration to working from home, new terms like “social distancing” and “N95/KN95 masks,” and Zoom-based schooling are all buzzwords.

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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. At the end of the day, as part of a reflection exercise, she had do a walk and talk with another person to discuss what we learned and what we hoped to apply. In other words, to what end?

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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

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 learned about the four keys of fun in game design as well as the role emotion plays in engaging people. Growing My Instructional Chops.

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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. It’s not clear how you identify the person who is doing the learning. Enough providers are now doing it that it’s talked about enough to be at the peak of inflated expectations.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

This includes social distancing and masks for safety, building capacity limits for instructor-led training, and of course, the mass pivot of all in-person events to the virtual sphere. These features allow you and your members to have a comprehensive view of each individual’s personal achievement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. This may include some personal exploration like setting up their profile on social networking site or even a blog. Comfort Levels. They've done some amount of experimentation.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Your association’s members aren’t completing continuing education (CE) credits because they simply enjoy sitting through a course — they’re doing so because they either: Want to learn something new for their own personal and professional benefit. Group Collaboration with Feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The biggest challenge for me was scaling with mic runners. I had mic runners stationed at different quadrants of the room who would go to the person who wanted to speak. It was hard to get people as engaged as a full group after the table discussions.

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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. I don't believe in the expert as one person, but more as a network. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic! I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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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. to take in two of the technical topics."

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 3, 2021

Instructional design, curriculum development, and teaching experience is a plus . Location: Virtual: Home-based office in US or Canada; some travel required for marketing, in-person training sessions. Knowledge of instructional design best practices such as evidence based online delivery models (e.g.,

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Both of which occur in-person in an instructor-led format. But, just because your current in-person training efforts are technically working, that doesn’t mean that they’re the best solution for your overall organization, staff members, and volunteers alike. A yearly refresher course for staff members. These strategies aren’t uncommon.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

And, we can’t forget one of the biggest benefits—online training courses replace in-person, instructor-led courses and all of a sudden, your learning and development team has significantly more time on its hands for other efforts. . When you invest in custom development , your partner can: .

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Since not every person in the cohort could travel to Washington, DC, we had virtual participants who joined us via phone and the webinar software.

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