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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

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GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. Around Gender. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning.

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Intermediated Conferences and Backchannels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is part of my preparation for a 90-minute webinar I'm doing for N-TEN on making face-to-face workshop/panel sessions more interactive. I'm thinking of ways to integrate the chat with the phone discussion -- similar to what I experienced and learned about during Nancy White's Online Facilitation Workshop last fall.