Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I came across the term “Learning Analytics” in an NPR story about the effectiveness of college lectures and ways to make learning more interactive. There are different definitions. This gives me some more insight about how to make teaching this concept more accessible. Please leave a comment.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Then, there are her responsibilities as a volunteer, which may look different each time she shows up. Are they going to encounter accents, different languages, or unique dialects that are different from those in their home country? What will patients in the designated country be wearing or otherwise look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions.

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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. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Learning Objectives: Understand why it is important to incorporate social media tools in your instructional practice for trainings. How to think like a social instructional designer. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. 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. You can see a word cloud of the different words that emerged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient. There are usually two aspects of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for. While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. I had different energizers planned for after lunch on each of the training days. And to make it more fun, I awarded prizes.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For example, you will generate quite a different set of responses if you ask for information on “education” rather than “STEM education.” Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? Be very clear and intentional with word choice.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Exploring the Impact of AI on Learning and Development in 2023 GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - AI has been at work across different industries to optimize efficiencies, improve outcomes, and drive innovation and profitability. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Exploring the Impact of AI on Learning and Development in 2023 GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - AI has been at work across different industries to optimize efficiencies, improve outcomes, and drive innovation and profitability. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Exploring the Impact of AI on Learning and Development in 2023 Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems AI has been at work across different industries to optimize efficiencies, improve outcomes, and drive innovation and profitability.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Mel Rancour, principal instructional designer for Blackbaud University’s Organizational Best Practices curriculum, joins today’s episode to talk about why you want to begin audit prep now, how this year is going to differ from previous years, and resources to help you get started with your preparations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I have different color codes for different types of work that also correspond with color codes on my google calendar and my hard drive/google drive files. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. All of them did it in less than the half time provided.

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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. I’ve collected the resources, notes, slides, and tweets from the session in this post. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The commonality was that everyone was working on Women’s Rights and Social Justice, although from different local contexts and different types of programs. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. One might think, oh no, this is impossible.

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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. For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks to express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have debate get in the way of the instructional flow later on.

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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. 534 is the average total amount raised by an individual.

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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. The four-day workshop has a different theme for each day as follows: Day 1: The Power of Networks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

For instance, Tencent-backed uLesson , YC-backed Kidato and LocalGlobe-backed Foondamate offer learning programs, via different methods, to K-12 students while the likes of Andela and GOMYCODE , among others, match skilled tech professionals and students with local and foreign employers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. In order to take advantage of the full flexibility of eLearnings, you will need to make them available in a variety of different offerings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. 2) Capturing the Energy in the Room : Part of the design is for each organization to implement a low-risk, thoughtful social media experiment that helps improve practice. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The five different styles included: Educator, Creator, Visionary, Organizer, and Creator. Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. They also had a chance to interact with peers with different styles to learn more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. As a participant, you can also learn a lot by observing and reverse engineering the instructional design.

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Forj

AUGUST 1, 2017

Typically, learners get different narrative endings depending on the choices they made throughout the scenario. If they’re unhappy with the ending they got, or if they’re curious, they can replay the scenarios to see what would happen if they had chosen differently. (If

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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. Typically, I have two groups of participants and as the chart above indicates, this group is no different - except that I probably have a greater number of people in Group 2. (1) Comfort Levels.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In College Football more than anywhere else, a coach can be the difference between five wins a season and obtaining an undefeated record. That is where coaching comes in. Your great learning program could be even greater with just a little coaching.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

The biggest difference here is who is responsible for carrying out the strategy that the consultant provides— the consultant alongside your internal team or your team itself. Who is going to be assigned to different tasks within the new business, such as talking to subject matter experts, building content, and administering your LMS?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2020

An email welcome series is different from a thank-you email, a newsletter, or other types of ordinary supporter email communications. Whether different types of supporters need different welcome emails. Getting the email welcome series right can take effort, and it may be more important than you think.

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Forj

DECEMBER 6, 2017

For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula. You may choose to, instead, ask them to brainstorm solutions to a problem or provide a simulated space for them to explore their different options.

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