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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training.

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Surprisingly Cool Things You Can Do with an LMS

Gyrus

Scheduling that same instructor, the classroom, the projector he/she is using, a laser pointer and a shared laptop… priceless. Resource Management. The number one item on our cool stuff list is Resource Management. Having the cooperative capabilities to schedule an instructor on a localized calendar has unmeasurable benefits.

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Going Virtual – An Alternative Volunteer Event Guide

Connection Cafe

One of the strongest roles companies can play in helping communities come back online after a disaster is by supporting them – through crisis communication training, scenario planning, facilities evaluation, and other critical resiliency efforts — before disaster strikes. There’s an app for that!

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. MacArthur Foundation.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. Know of any?

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. Hot debates follows in another post on charity evaluation and metrics over at Tactical Philanthropy blog suggested that we forget on a metric to measure "Total Good Accomplished" and focus on real measures.

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