Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. This was one of the best webinars I've attended (not just because I helped co-produce it) because there was so much resource sharing happening in the comments. Slide Decks and Activities. GCF Learn Free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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Reflection Data Slides Exercise 95

Tech Soup

JULY 3, 2012

One of my favorite pieces of advice is to remember that your economy of language is incredibly important when creating your slides. When creating your slides, you want your words to be complementary to your verbal presentation, not identical. For more information, check out this list of animation resources from Microsoft.

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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 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 28, 2019

Give clear instructions on your expectations. If you don’t like a certain behavior, don’t “let it slide” sometimes. It’s easy to look at their behavior around the office and judge solely on that. You may think you have your mind made up about their character, but there are always more factors at play. Be consistent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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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. Social Instructional Design.

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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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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 119

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. Some tools provide extensive libraries with customizable elements, while others offer more limited resources. 11.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. Nonetheless, there is a nonprofit perspective and my instructional materials and experience speak to that audience.

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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. The slides and resources list are on the wiki. I also got a few leads to more blogs by Extension Professionals.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site.

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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. The flickr set has notes and pointers to other resources if you are interested in the content. View the Screencast here.

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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. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. So, you have to design for that. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. Presenting Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Check out this presentation from Slide Share that uses the Wizard of Oz to explain Web2.0. state, ostensibly so that each district has similar populations, resources, monuments, Starbucks, and whatever else makes a member of Congress all atwitter.

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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. I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. What worked? What didn't? The venue, the IRDC , was wonderful place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Ivan's story adds an excellent example to accompany these resource links. now off to integrate it into my slides show for my session at the Bridge Conference on Tuesday. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. You can set this up in advance with a sign-up sheet, instructions, and referencing it at the beginning of the meeting. 7: Make Sure Everyone Can Hear & Identify the Speaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. The CC licensed work on Flickr and CCmixter are wonderful resources. discoverable resources (does not mean repositories, but does mean openness). I remixed it from an earlier prsentation called Associations 2.0

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Blue Avocado

AUGUST 20, 2024

I’ve designated a series of endowments in my will for substantive amounts and have had sufficient resources to establish them via RMDs. If this isn’t possible, such information should be easy to find, and any instructions should be simple to follow. I have made plans to leave a major legacy upon my death.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2007

Serious games now are viewed as “resources” (for education, training, instruction, simulation) or “platforms” (for messages, persuasion). McGonigal has many excellent resources for your perusal. We just accidentally re-invented Science as pop culture entertainment."

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this presentation and we will be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on today. Steven: bring up your slides. . I’m just going to make sure that I can see my slides. I love that everyone loves my slides. Just a couple of quick housekeeping items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Step 1: Find People.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2022

They do, however, require an investment of your time and resources to really pay off. Who will provide instructions, commentary, and announcements? Have your sponsors’ logos rotating on the slides at the event. And with this quick guide and resources, you’re ready to start planning an amazing auction event!

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

These platforms are what elevate a static PDF or slide show presentation to greater heights, creating courses that are engaging, interactive, and full of multimedia elements. Essentially, these platforms are used by those with the need for and resources to invest in comprehensive training programs to train a large audience of learners.

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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. The Agenda Wizard allows organizations to structure presentations by adding agenda slides between topics that list speakers and agenda item durations. The Admin fee is $8 for Microsoft Publisher.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve been exploring how to integrate social media into instruction at face-to-face workshops and as well as webinars. The concept of before, during, and after is an important way to plot out your instruction, getting a good understanding of the audience, and modeling. Additional resources. Social Learning In Webinars.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2022

They do, however, require an investment of your time and resources to really pay off. Who will provide instructions, commentary, and announcements? Have your sponsors’ logos rotating on the slides at the event. And with this quick guide and resources, you’re ready to start planning an amazing auction event!

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Though the type of tools and equipment you’ll need will depend on the unique event you choose, there are a couple of crucial resources you can’t fundraise without. Once they’re all sold, instruct everyone to pop their own balloon and see what they’ve won. They can include mud pits, mud crawls, mud slides, mud inflatables, and more.

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