Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. ” So, I like to share a few of my favorites that I have inspired me in my instructional/training practice. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. The session starts with two quick exercises so we can be comfortable with the concepts. How do we teach leaders to know when emergence is working? This is always enlightening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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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. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The workshop had 16 participants, mostly people who run innovation and research labs from corporations. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important. Train the Trainer: Must Incorporate Exercises that Use Simulations.

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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

MARCH 2, 2011

The session provided strategy theory and a simulation exercise based on creating a digital activism campaign for the Story of Electronics film (that now has Arabic sub-titles ). Both language and what you’re teaching. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy.

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JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. 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. Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. Interactive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Route 66 Route 66, our online platform for teaching reading, has officially launched thanks to support from the Peery Foundation. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities. Route 66 is software that provides teachers (and non-teachers!)

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MAY 1, 2023

And don’t overlook the power of social events and team-building exercises to cement relationships. I am not a fan of employees training each other unless you can shift responsibilities to ensure that people have the capacity to take on a teaching role. Start Small Start with small, manageable projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer ! Medium: Up to 50 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). In other words, to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If you are a trainer, you are working with the human brain every day and you need to know as much as possible about how humans learn and how to teach a topic well. Images are better than words for instructional aids. Participants might do an exercise, but the results are on the wall for a debrief. Incorporating Movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching. One of my favorites was this terrific warm up from John Kenyon to help you when you are about to present. Interactive Training Engages.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

In The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Any idea why? Mark : It depends.

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JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. eLearning assessments should only be used when there is a clear instructional imperative — so, only when they’re required for completion of the course or generally helpful for either of the two parties listed above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

As a trainer, sometimes we get into “ruts&# where we use the same exercises and that can make you less passionate about your work. The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants.

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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. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Any idea why? Mark : It depends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

To be successful in either teaching or learning, you have to slow down. I’ve been immersed in writing about measurement and testing instructional frameworks this year. I’m also interested in content curation and have been practicing it and teaching it, but want to take that to the next level.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Any idea why? Mark : It depends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2008

I'm prepping for my " Take Me to the Social Web " workshop that I'll be teaching in Australia. Explain exercise goals and that we'll be posting some of our burning questions throughout the day to Twitter and checking in for answers as the workshop unfolds. Give instructions to participants to do the exercise.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. How to solve a quadratic equation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Nonetheless, there is a nonprofit perspective and my instructional materials and experience speak to that audience. We did mostly full room discussion, but I broke it up with some moving around exercises. Here's the full room exercises. (1) So, I changed delivery tactics and it worked! She shared some really useful resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. It is a well known fact that exercise helps you think better. (And Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Movement can really help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above. It's slow, but he is able to teach a lesson to the students about how to find supplementary materials for their school assignments. We participated in a small group role play exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Ten or eleven years ago, when I was learning HTML and Web site creation (in the very early days) and teaching arts organizations, I always started with an exercise called " Critical Browsing." Instructional. There is a link to the download and the written instructions. There are call-outs to highlight features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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Candid

JUNE 14, 2023

It’s critical you read, re-read, and follow the instructions. For example, an activity is running a series of workshops to teach high school students in your district how to do workouts at home. An output is hosting six exercise workshops for 300 students. Double and triple check your math to be safe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. Discovery Exercise. Hiring people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. Setting the Right Dollar Goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

By blog coaching I mean that I teach people how to run a blog. I recognize that this is easier because of the sense of entitlement I'm socialized with, so I try to exercise some discretion when deciding whether my thoughts really warrant posting. Do you have step-by-step instructions for feedburner?).

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