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. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. A Simple Method For Getting Started.

Content 101

Content Skype Learning Slides 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. It was particularly rewarding to see instructional techniques (the social media game ) that I had developed and been using since 2007 used by someone else.

Activities 92

Activities Active Activism Digital 92

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

If participatory exhibit design is going to progress as a design methodology, it has to produce outputs that are demonstrably equivalent to or better than exhibits created by traditional methods. You can view and download all the slides here. This is a question we grappled with in the Tech Virtual project.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. Dormant: At this stage, the organization does not know where to start.

Culture 115

Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Someone on the call had moderator access and was able to flip the slides (I had them memorized) and they also read any of the questions in the chat line to me. First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. But, you can't teach the way you feel comfortable teaching all the time. ?

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Reflection Laptop Wiki Artist 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

” This is a common theme for those interested in incorporating visualization techniques. But I followed the advice of colleague Rachel Smith, who teaches visual thinking and facilitation : “Send your inner critic who says you can’t draw on a vacation to Hawaii.” It has stopped me in the past.

Technique 109

Technique Data Hawaii Artist 109