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3 Strategies for Effective Nonprofit E-Learning

The Nerdy NonProfit

Or, do they need to change their mindset, such as revising their habits and lifestyle to work from home successfully? For the work-from-home example, this could be a simulation that walks through how to design the perfect home workspace. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. It’s a balancing act!

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How Nonprofit Staff Training Is Evolving Due to COVID-19

Top Nonprofits

How do we complete work, training, and more on one strained WiFi connection? The mass migration to working from home, new terms like “social distancing” and “N95/KN95 masks,” and Zoom-based schooling are all buzzwords. You’ve had to adjust to this pandemic-era lifestyle in both your personal and working life— and do so quickly.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. There are lots and lots of bookmarkets around, some good, some bad, and some designed to work specifically with Web2.0 Now, thanks to Marshall, you don't have edit so it is even less work. I hope you get a good laugh.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After seeing Nancy White's experiment and discovering Amit Agarwal's excellent instructions for. The instructions from Digital Inspiration were fantastic, but I made a few newbie mistakes that took me more time and were a little frustrating: 1.) My work flow. I created a storyboard with small scenes. Capture my rehearsal.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. That's the only thing missing.

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Assembling the Right Team for an E-Learning Project

sgEngage

Your e-learning content development partner reviews the training content you already have and works to understand your goals for the course. . Write and review storyboards. If one of your board members works for a tech company, for example, put a coffee chat on their schedule before the full group meeting. .

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Tips for Taking a Tech-Fueled Approach to Nonprofit Training

DNL OmniMedia

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. They believe in the work of your organization and they want to play a role in advancing that work.