Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. Don’t leave them hanging. Ask questions.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Establishing Clear Communication Channels This includes providing students with detailed instructions on how to reach out for help, whether through email, discussion boards, etc. Creating a Positive and Inclusive Online Environment Instructors can create a positive and inclusive atmosphere by fostering respect, diversity, and open-mindedness.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Establishing Clear Communication Channels This includes providing students with detailed instructions on how to reach out for help, whether through email, discussion boards, etc. Creating a Positive and Inclusive Online Environment Instructors can create a positive and inclusive atmosphere by fostering respect, diversity, and open-mindedness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Establishing Clear Communication Channels This includes providing students with detailed instructions on how to reach out for help, whether through email, discussion boards, etc. Creating a Positive and Inclusive Online Environment Instructors can create a positive and inclusive atmosphere by fostering respect, diversity, and open-mindedness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you are on the lookout for the best tools out there, this blog post is for you. If you are on the lookout for the best tools out there, this blog post is for you. If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you are on the lookout for the best tools out there, this blog post is for you. If you are on the lookout for the best tools out there, this blog post is for you. If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you are on the lookout for the best tools out there, this blog post is for you. If you are on the lookout for the best tools out there, this blog post is for you. If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need.

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Authoring Tool eLearning Authoring Tools 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. This may include some personal exploration like setting up their profile on social networking site or even a blog. Gordon Meyer has good reflection on the Community Media Workshop Blog). (2) Comfort Levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. ” - Drawing People Out: After you listen and paraphrase, you ask open-ended questions to draw people out. ”Tell me more …” is one of several identified in the book. Peer Learning / Coaching. Reflective Practice.

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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 !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn. My Three Themes:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I did a pre-session blog post with all the annotated sources and some book recommendations. I’m very interested in the train the trainer concept, so for my own learning I have been taking many trainings to learn new instructional techniques – hopefully gaining some empathy for being a student in a train the trainer session.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Tools range from highly intuitive platforms ideal for non-technical users to more complex systems requiring a deeper understanding of instructional design or technical skills. 2. The tool’s templates and built-in guidance also help ensure the courses adhere to instructional design best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. How do you inspire people to be open to learning during a session? Then we opened up for discussion. Learning Begins with Igniting Curiosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. I typically draw a vertical line down my notebook page, and label each column “Content” and “Instructional Process” to capture both types of notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Here’s a some of what I learned about facilitating innovation and train the trainers design. A Good Opening Opens Possibilities from Learning from Other Participants. This may be mean rapid prototyping as well as front-end research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Ever since the SXSW blog discussion " What is the distinction between social media for charity and social media for social good " I've wanted to play the game with a critical mass of smart people who have a program and social change lens. . Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Or, individuals in a business course could complete an open-ended case study-based assessment to test how well they can apply the information presented, effectively testing skills acquired. Open-Ended Questions. Open-ended assessments are designed to have a learner share everything that they know about a specific topic.

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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. Program Design. 2. Design for Organizational Reluctance. organizational change, and technology.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

It seems that Training personnel are always focused on new and innovative teachings, and designers are obsessed with developing an open platform that can accommodate all these visionary changes that we as learning professionals would wish to implement.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. The sitting brain is really disengaged. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training? Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Or just keep your ears open. “I kissed a squirrel & I liked it” #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong.

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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. She had the 30 participants walk around the room while she urged us to open up and think about what we wanted to get out of the day. In other words, to what end?

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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. Program Design. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Amiable Style people show their emotions openly and prefer to ask questions rather than give orders. Relationships, feelings and personal security are important to Amiable Style people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. 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. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

6: Ask clarifying, open-ended questions when the other person pauses. ” Drawing People Out : After you listen and paraphrase, you ask open-ended questions to draw people out. I’ve paraphrased and summarized these below: 1: Face the speaker and maintain eye contact. 2: Be present, practice mindful listening to the other person.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

In the Learning and Development world training has migrated from solely instructional and self-taught. Walking the floor at an ATD conference is a real eye opener as to what the current market possibilities are. To completely accessible without time requirement, electronic, as well as mobile learning platforms. Gamification.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Will the course authoring software integrate directly with your LMS or will you need to figure out a different solution?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 7: Say thank you in creative ways.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Her blog has aided many individuals and organizations in the areas of action mapping, scenario-based learning models, and developing training that truly matters. He is the CEO of The Craig Weiss Group and has been blogging about eLearning for over 14 years. Know more 2.Cathy Know More!

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Her blog has aided many individuals and organizations in the areas of action mapping, scenario-based learning models, and developing training that truly matters. He is the CEO of The Craig Weiss Group and has been blogging about eLearning for over 14 years. Know more 2.Cathy Know More!

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eLearning Linkedin Instructional Design Industry 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Her blog has aided many individuals and organizations in the areas of action mapping, scenario-based learning models, and developing training that truly matters. He is the CEO of The Craig Weiss Group and has been blogging about eLearning for over 14 years. Know more 2.Cathy Know More!

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