Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

A follow up question revealed that a big challenge is making goals measurable. This gives me some more insight about how to make teaching this concept more accessible. The polling after the section of content about how to make goals measurable showed that the needled moved slightly in the other direction, towards hating measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Gunner also facilitated a brainstorming and affinity mapping exercise to unpack all the possible topics for deep dives in small groups in the afternoon. I’ve used these techniques myself and been in many other sessions where facilitators used design-thinking techniques. There are usually two aspects of this.

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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. I also try to identify a framework that will help me design the content. Audience Research. Materials and Lesson Plan Development.

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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. Even asking direct questions doesn’t result in replies. How can we get people to talk to us? 4. Make it Buzzworthy.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For example, rather than showcasing a North American hospital, it would be more valuable to share images of field hospitals in the designated location. Examples, questions, and scenarios that reflect what the learner will encounter. Or, would you have questions like: “Who is the learner and what do they ‘like’? We could go on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The team’s first planning session should be one of learning about each’s other trade craft versus diving into the design of the session. That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Do you have a preferred method?

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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

MARCH 25, 2014

The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work. There were some excellent “burning questions” that folks shared about nonprofit training. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. We were also accommodating a remote audience as well. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

” - 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. ” This builds trust and establishes your objectivity. You end your paraphrase with with “Did I get it?”

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? Amid all the talk about generative AI, fundraisers, especially grantwriters, may be asking themselves: Am I out of a job?  Will I be replaced by ChatGPT?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I suspect the same sorts of things happen when you are doing a powerpoint monologue or long lecture without any movement, interaction, or holding all questions until the end. This is not learning – and I dare say that it isn’t healthy for folks either to be sitting so long.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field. 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

AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field. 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

AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

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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. How do you define failure for our organization or program?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Participants volunteer their question for the Spectragram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders. Amiable Style people show their emotions openly and prefer to ask questions rather than give orders. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I don't always get a chance to do pre-workshop surveys, but in this case I had the opportunity to add two questions onto the registration form. I also wanted to get a sense of what content to include, so I asked for burning questions I usually do that as an icebreaker in the room, so this will save some time. Comfort Levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Instructional Design Notes. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. ” I love these interactive sessions because the questions always give me great ideas for blog posts – so stay tuned. How CEO’s can encourage all staff participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

For the leadership development, there were four guiding questions that we explored throughout our journey – and now as I’m back I will continue to reflect and take action based on these: What does it mean to be a leader in the face of complex challenges. Clarifying Questions: 4 minutes for others to ask clarifying questions.

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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. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . I select what I questions I do based on answers in an online pre-survey. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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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. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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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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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? That’s great! But, where do you begin? What does a learning consultant do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Ask Good Questions. As you can see from the above list, leaders that have solid listening skills know how to ask good questions that inspire people to think in new ways, expand their vision, and enable them to contribute more to a team or project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. In other words, to what end?

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

We’re going to cover types of eLearning assessments through the following questions: What is an eLearning assessment? Multiple-choice assessments are those that pose a question with three to five accompanying responses. Learners are asked to choose the one correct answer that aligns with the question asked.

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Forj

JUNE 28, 2017

In conferences, there’s definitely a sense of comradery: you’re an instructional designer? They asked questions throughout the session and enjoyed playing through the games I demoed for them. Let’s talk shop. Talk shop we did. I presented my session twice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Users have to watch it, then they have to answer some questions, then they have to click a couple things. Are you yourself as an instructional designer capable of ripping out the fluff and unnecessary components in order to optimize the microlearning? Is it something that lacks the complexity to warrant an entire eLearning?

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Forj

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Although I don’t expect instructional designers to leap from their desk chairs and start dancing in glee, the Department of Defense’s statement is an important symbol of change in the industry. By “traditional”, I mean developed-in-the-year-2000-why-is-our-industry-still-using-17-year-old-technology traditional.

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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. It’s hard to teach employees creativity if you’re making them select one right answer from a multiple choice question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

For this exercise, rather than having people sit and interview each other in pairs in the room I had them write down the interview questions on 3×5 card and go for 20 minute walk around the hotel and do a walking interview, ten minutes each. I told them to come back at a precise time.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

When students feel connected to their peers and instructors, they are more likely to contribute to discussions, ask questions, and share their insights. Establishing Clear Communication Channels This includes providing students with detailed instructions on how to reach out for help, whether through email, discussion boards, etc.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

When students feel connected to their peers and instructors, they are more likely to contribute to discussions, ask questions, and share their insights. Establishing Clear Communication Channels This includes providing students with detailed instructions on how to reach out for help, whether through email, discussion boards, etc.

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