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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Here’s what I learned. Spectragram. Next, try provocative statements.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

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Part of delivering instruction is being a good facilitation of people’s learning and there is no better way to learn how to improve your own technique than watching world class facilitators in action. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise.

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The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!

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I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. How can we get people to talk to us? Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics.

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

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Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning.

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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

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His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” There were 2o people in the dining party, and AppleBee’s policy is to add the 18% tip automatically to any parties over 6. The bill was divided up and Alois Bell wrote on her receipt, “I give God 10% why do you get 18%?”

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

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The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. What you know?

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Ways that Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Can Build Virtuoso Listening Skills

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We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Organizational Awareness: the ability to understand the politics within an organization and how these affect the people working in them. Service: the ability to understand and meet the needs of people you work with.

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