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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. is done by students during class hours, with a teacher’s supervision and hands-on input; and what was once the core of the classroom experience (teacher lectures) is now absorbed at home via online resources. So, you have to design for that.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. The title is " Remix This Powerpoint " -- it's some draft thoughts on remixing and wink to SlideShare's new feature - the ability to download the Powerpoint file ! The stuff the runs on the machine.

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The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function

NTEN

Each reason is clearly presented with no more text than you might put on a PowerPoint slide. Prior to Minds On Design Lab, Seth worked in the educational field first as a 5th grade classroom teacher and then as a technology and support leader in a thriving education technology startup. American Red Cross: Why Should I Give?

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Intermediated Conferences and Backchannels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since the workshop is essentiallly about designing more interactive face-to-face learning environments, I don't want to model a 85 minute lecture with 100 slide powerpoint, leaving 5 minutes for q&A at end. Coolcat Teacher wrote an excellent post reflecting on the use of backchannels in the classroom.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. It is far less work to slap together a powerpoint presentation and prepare the content. Illustration by Beth Kanter. Participants will retain what they learned, it sticks.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. Unfortunately, there's a 10 MB limit if you're uploading a PowerPoint file and you can reach that pretty quickly if you are presenting with visuals. The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording, as well as the slides, later on this afternoon. So I’m going to stop sharing so that you can bring up those beautiful slides we were just looking at. Marie: Wonderful.

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