Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

Make it easy for committees and leaders to access resources like PowerPoint templates. Zonta has a standards guide that includes instructions related to style and formatting. “Do a brand audit and review everything that you’re currently producing.

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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. Death by PowerPoint: C’mon you know the look: Save your monologues for the stage. Note from Beth: Last January, I put together a train the trainers session for nonprofit trainers. Don’t just talk at them, interact!

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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. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You may know Prezi as an innovative PowerPoint-esque software that lays information out as an animated map rather than sequential slides. This month, as many schools attempt to utilize online instruction for the first time, Prezi is rolling out two new tools tailored to distance learning. But Prezi is playing a long game as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I modify instructions or make accommodations for physical disabilities. In any of my instructions for any interactive activities, I always tell people that it isn’t required to move around or stand – do what they comfortable doing and modify. I made this part of the instructions.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Rosetta 2 essentially “translates” instructions that were written for Intel processors into commands that Apple’s chips can understand. First, the original Rosetta converted every instruction in real-time, as it executed them. Developers won’t need to make any changes to their old apps; they’ll just work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2006

It came from Richard Van Eck's presentation "An Instructional Designer Looks at Digital Game-Based Learning." On pages 20-22 of the mega huge powerpoint bullet points [link] Was Gagne's Nine Events and how games embody them. Learning Retention Rates Originally uploaded by Eric Rice.

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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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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

JANUARY 31, 2007

I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. I also thought of a book title from about ten years ago called " Learning and Forgetting " I went a little overboard on the 80-plus powerpoint slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

It was particularly rewarding to see instructional techniques (the social media game ) that I had developed and been using since 2007 used by someone else. We lost electricity and could not use the powerpoint. One of the fun parts of the project for me is the opportunity to observe other trainers and learn from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

Many of my presentations are training, so it is also thinking through the instructional delivery. Tags: powerpoint. Next month will include NTEN's NTC. I love doing presentations, the preparation, creating the content, and the performance. How have you resolved those issues?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Presentations and instructional content are an important part of my content strategy and the lifeblood of my work as a trainer. Slideshare helps set my work free and share it with nonprofit professionals all over the world. In the long run, they are helping to make the world a safer, fairer, healthier place to live.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

Read step-by-step instructions for customizing the Ribbon in Office 2010. Get tips, tricks, and shortcuts on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and tracked changes from this series of posts. We know you may use it every day, but you can use it even better. Get the most out of Office with the resources below to help improve your office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

As a follow up to last week's screencast on how to use flickr as a visual resource, here is a post about how to share your wonderfully visual powerpoints with others via your blog or flickr. This is a powerpoint that Cheryl Hanback and I used to lead an N-TEN Affnity Group of technology trainers at last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

It really helped me think through the final instructional delivery, specifically how to manage popping between the powerpoint slide and sharing the desktop (web browser) and how to integrate participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I play a little PowerPoint Karoke. 6. Creative Use of Energizers: Avoiding the 3:00 PM My Brain Is Full Slump: No matter how engaging your content or instructional technique is – people get tired towards the end of a whole day of training. That’s why you need energizers. Movement can really help.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The letter instructed her to “cease and desist from these activities…. About three months later, Holmes sent PFM Management’s Bryan Grossman a Powerpoint presentation. He then instructed her to read some tender exchanges to the court. “I sure as hell wish we treated her differently,” Holmes said of Cheung. Leach asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

It will be interesting to see if this achieved and there is a high likelihood since powerpoints (except for instructional sessions) have been banned. The session and moderator guidelines are designed to make the next a very interactive and participatory conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

The title is " Remix This Powerpoint " -- it's some draft thoughts on remixing and wink to SlideShare's new feature - the ability to download the Powerpoint file ! help me and others understand the value of remixing content and remix culture by remixing this powerpoint! The podcast outlines the metaphor further.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

with art teachers on the issue of integrating digital tools into their instruction. The reflection question was about how the challenge of transfer - how will you take the skills you've learned today in powerpoint or photoshop or whatever the hell I was teaching and integrate them into your life.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2015

Check out our Microsoft Publisher: Reach Out to Donors piece for step-by-step instructions on how to get going quickly with the application. You can save entire PDF files or just selected portions of them as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel documents, retaining layout, fonts, formatting, and tables. The admin fee is $45.

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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. I asked a few why they were doing that — expecting a response about wanting to be able to share the map or poster in a powerpoint back at the office.

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Gyrus

APRIL 14, 2015

How many of us have had to sit through PowerPoint presentations, and thought a picture would work better, or watched a training video and wanted the steps and instructions written down? The point is that I sought out different types of materials in different mediums: print, discussion forums, tech manuals, pictures, and videos.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2012

When contemplating their favorites, they likely thought about which books were in their minds the best, most favored, most inspiring, most instructional, most relevant, and which ones they might reference frequently. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

When contemplating their favorites, they likely thought about which books were in their minds the best, most favored, most inspiring, most instructional, most relevant, and which ones they might reference frequently. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

When an external trainer gives everyone specific instructions to be silly or try something odd, everyone gets to go through the stress, excitement, and positive outcome that comes with healthy risk-taking. His supervisors kept saying no, nicely, and he kept making his powerpoints.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Use video, PowerPoint, or other visual aids to help tell the story of why your cause is important. Make sure that you have everything you need to make your event successful, including clear instructions on how to donate. . “ To help make your fund-a-need appeal as compelling as possible, remember that visuals are key.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

He offered these step-by-step setup instructions. Note that these instructions are for Windows MultiPoint Server 2011. For a quick overview of the installation process, see How to Install Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 (video) and Interns Guide to MultiPoint Set Up (PowerPoint). Learn More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. Both events had their share of clunkiness. that didn't last long or ruin the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. Aaron who is the tech person at Meyer Memorial Trust tipped me off to something that I didn't know existed in powerpoint and I must explore it. I must also memorize how to skip around in powerpoint without flipping through slides.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Elevated Engagement and Interactivity: At Artisan, we worked with the American Red Cross to transform a less-than-engaging PowerPoint into a self-paced e-learning course. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. With these tips, you’ll create e-learning courses that are valuable and engaging.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

I wrote a post about how to create a content inventory several years ago in case you need some instruction. Messaging hierarchy – Word doc or PowerPoint deck. If you ever plan to redesign your website, the best thing you can do to prepare is to create (and maintain) a content inventory. Page Description Diagrams – Word doc.

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