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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? Low risk allows participants to collaborate on an answer to question and high risk asks one person to respond. What do you actually retain?

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While most of the instruction was done as a full group, we also wanted to allow some less structured time for people to self-organize into small groups and get hands-on time at their own pace and specific questions answers. We allowed people to move from group to group once they go their questions answered. Here is what they shared: 1.)

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The Future of Mobiles for Nonprofits

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I could point to the Haiti disaster as the tipping point in cell phones -- for the increased engagement with donors, and more importantly, for the contributions of information from survivors. Here's the question for the future: how are you enabling the conversation between your donors and your beneficiaries, and is this a two-way call?

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