Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” 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. The four levels are: Reaction.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Gyrus

APRIL 14, 2015

How many of us have had to sit through PowerPoint presentations, and thought a picture would work better, or watched a training video and wanted the steps and instructions written down? The point is that I sought out different types of materials in different mediums: print, discussion forums, tech manuals, pictures, and videos.

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Training Train Difference Learning 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Having trained nonprofits on every continent of the world (except Antarctica), I had a great laboratory to develop my instructional design and delivery skills. One of the biggest challenges is keeping nonprofits engaged. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes.

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Training Train Audience Activities 103

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. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Deborah Finn has invited me to be an instructor for a workshop on using outcome-based measurement for social media integrated strategy as part of a series of workshops on measurement and data in Boston next spring. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

When an external trainer gives everyone specific instructions to be silly or try something odd, everyone gets to go through the stress, excitement, and positive outcome that comes with healthy risk-taking. The outcome is very different. His supervisors kept saying no, nicely, and he kept making his powerpoints.

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Denver Museum Oakland PowerPoint 55