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

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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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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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. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation.

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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. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. Where do you get the time to put some of what you've learned into practice?

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Forj

JANUARY 23, 2018

Don’t you hate when you get out of a conference session feeling all pumped about an idea, but by the time you get back to your workplace you realize that you have no idea how to do the thing you were so excited about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you? My Three Themes: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. Participants were asked to set up blogs as their workshop notebooks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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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. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes.

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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. In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient.

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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. The research indicates that the human brain, on average, has the capacity to pay attention for about 10-12 minutes within an hour. I set up opportunities for people to apply what they just heard through reflective questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I also wanted to get a sense of what content to include, so I asked for burning questions I usually do that as an icebreaker in the room, so this will save some time. I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Comfort Levels. Also, the seating is fixed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. The Sun Sets on 2014. But, it isn’t just about learning new techniques.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

As Learning and Development professionals it is time to ask ourselves… What does this mean to our industry? 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.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Movie streaming services, family members and pets, and noisy neighbors all add up to one thing— limited time and attention to dedicate to e-learning during COVID-19. Custom-designed, relatable courses. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when doing so: Use background scenery and visuals that are reflective of your organization.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Perhaps it was a multiple-choice final exam or an essay-style test printed in double-spaced Times New Roman. Assessments are closely tied to learning objectives, or what you want members to have learned by the time they complete the course. What did the last assessment that you took look like? Fill in the Blank.

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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. 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

JULY 19, 2016

One technique that I use all the time is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone. Here’s a description of some other body breaks that I’ve used – these are simply stretches and energizers. You have them pause, make eye contact, and say hello and then walk more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

intense days of meetings. The design incorporate many interactive learning techniques to ensure that participants were actively learning and sharing, and not falling asleep! It takes time to develop a solid organizational practice in social media, so we wanted to celebrate those small victories.

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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. All of them did it in less than the half time provided. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Elucidat is known for creating training for large– at times global– employers, and that’s reflected in both its features and pricing.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. The variety of creative responses we received reflect the myriad perspectives of visitors to our interdisciplinary institution. Reassert the "forum"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. What metrics will you use to measure success? And everyday until….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Reflections coming soon!) His reflections below. One thing I haven't been doing over the years is documenting the instructional design or lesson plan. Tech in Maine where I did the beta version of the social media strategy game for Pop!Tech Tech Fellows. Last week, Gordon used a version of the game at a conference in NYC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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Forj

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The answer may seem obvious, but that’s not readily apparent in the eLearning we design. Many of our curricula reflect what we used to value in the workplace: mastery of domain knowledge. Now that we’ve created solutions for easily defined problems, it’s time to focus our attention toward complex problems.

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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The answer may seem obvious, but that’s not readily apparent in the eLearning we design. Many of our curricula reflect what we used to value in the workplace: mastery of domain knowledge. Now that we’ve created solutions for easily defined problems, it’s time to focus our attention toward complex problems.

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