Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Instructional Design. Creating a Network Map.

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Training Train San Jose Instructional Design 50

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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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

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. I’ve used these techniques myself and been in many other sessions where facilitators used design-thinking techniques.

Facilitation 101

Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. The Importance of Icebreakers: Getting To Know People in the Room.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

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. Being able to do concept mapping on the wall with sticky notes is a core technique in a number of the methods that we practiced throughout the two days.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I’m very interested in the train the trainer concept, so for my own learning I have been taking many trainings to learn new instructional techniques – hopefully gaining some empathy for being a student in a train the trainer session. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

Training 100

Training Train Reflection Resource 100

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