Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Do we need to the whole hour to accomplish the same amount of work?

Learning Theory 139

Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

Instructional Design 113

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises.

Train 60

Train Training Design Tech 60

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Both emphasize museums reaching out into the community to support, understand and experience what the community is already doing.

Museum 49

Museum Program Participatory Community 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Using tools and a process, the words, ideas, experience, sounds, etc., that are conveyed and shared within a context, are made available to a virtual audience. The learning is not in that moment in which these actions are taking. Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into?

Knowledge 50

Knowledge Collaboration Social Media Tools 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

Slides 22

Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22