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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

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Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Now, this isn’t just string of instructional videos and isn’t a series of webinars — that’s just old school. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Make Sarah Bunting Wear A Tomato Outfit, Parade Around Rockefeller Center and Support DonorsChoose!

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Last year, Sarah Bunting, who writes the blog Tomato Nation , a culture and humor blog, offered to shave her head if her blog readers donated to DonorsChoose.org , a site that allows donors to purchase school supplies for needy classrooms. Her readers responded, raising approximately $30,000 in a few days.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Begin Connections.

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Educating To Mobilize the Masses

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They use a model where they can change the zoning based on the issues they learned about. They produce a model that shows the consequences of the proposed change. The answers after gave them more analysis. The players conduct a site visit to understand the problem from the point of view of people who use the street everyday.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

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These courses are designed for adult learners, using a " scholar-practitioner " model. They have to figure out how to communicate and organize their work online, to accomplish a case analysis together. Sites/Blogs about blogging as an instructional tool: Weblogs in the Classroom provides links to articles, tools and examples.

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