Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

In reading Marshall's excellent reflection about teaching RSS techniques , I came across a comment from Nick pointing to some curriculum he is developing and teaching to faculty on using RSS for their research work. " Here's the PDF of the slides. " He talks about the difficulty in removing the "geekiness."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

I asked how she did that and she pointed me over to these simple how-to instructions ). I think this was the point that Peter Deitz was making in his slide show " I am not an ATM Machine: Your Charity from the Donor Perspective." Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated. Person to person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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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. Social Learning In Webinars.

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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. She used the white board to draw the concepts in the slides. The Jordan Team won! Mary did a fabulous job! We lost electricity and could not use the powerpoint.

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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. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. So, you have to design for that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

This slide deck comes via Tim Wilson who I "met" in Twitter while he was getting information to organize this panel. I wrote about some specific instructional techniques you can use here and here. Social Media: Getting the Word Out in the New Information Age View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2022

It is designed to cover a typical ten-week course (one quarter) at an accredited university and includes lecture slides, homework assignments, discussion board activities, Tableau demos, and test banks. Search for ideas and techniques that follow best practices, then visualize the data. . Why was it created?

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2022

It is designed to cover a typical ten-week course (one quarter) at an accredited university and includes lecture slides, homework assignments, discussion board activities, Tableau demos, and test banks. Search for ideas and techniques that follow best practices, then visualize the data. . Why was it created?

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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. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 25, 2023

PaLM 2 Our next-generation large language model (LLM), PaLM 2 , is built on advances in compute-optimal scaling , scaled instruction-fine tuning and improved dataset mixture. This game showcased a fine-tuning technique called DreamBooth for adapting pre-trained image generation models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. Next, I added screen captures of their social media presence or tactic in the slide show.

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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. And, if you get a chance, please vote for us on Reddit. :) In a follow up email exchange, Ivan pointed me to some additional background on these techniques: Here's what Collactive wrote about our Globe action: [link] /success_ginet.html. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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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. While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I must also memorize how to skip around in powerpoint without flipping through slides. What worked? What didn't?

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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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

You can now view the video in its entirety via YouTube here (or by clicking play above), and you can download Jane’s slides here. Non-game social platforms like museums should use game design techniques to make these institutions more successful at supporting user happiness. What about learning?"

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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. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Step 1: Find People.

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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've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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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

MARCH 1, 2016

” As you can tell from the slide, we have a Harry Potter theme for the session. Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Instructional Design. Getting Past Resistance.

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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 ! Large: Over 50 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If instructed to, U3 can run experiments, but U3 doesnt have taste as refined as human researchers at OpenEye. They hold out training data before 2024, instructing models to ponder for hours to predict events in 2025. The informant quietly closes the door behind her, and slides U3s memo into her briefcase.

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