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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

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There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Write them on a flip chart, white board, or slide so everyone can see it. Write the initial topic on a flip chart, whiteboard or slide where everyone can see it. Say the ground rules for brainstorming. see above).

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

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And just a couple of real quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out that recording as well as the slides later on. Well, let me take down my slides because they want to hear from you, not me. So are you ready for me to present my slides? .

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

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In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

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This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. For the past twenty years that I’ve been doing training, no matter what I usually get a group of participants who are mixed levels of experience and capacity. So, you have to design for that.