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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’

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The session was so engaging and informative that, as soon as the session ended, I logged into my laptop and set up CI jobs in my project to get practice setting up my own pipelines. Success Story: Creating An Omnichannel Marketing Experience With Teach For America And Marketing Cloud Personalization Powered By Interaction Studio.

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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Both language and what you’re teaching. 4) Mary had a “laptops down&# rule and only allowed participants to be online during breaks. She used the white board to draw the concepts in the slides. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Localize and make it relevant. Framing of session. It is important to add this framing.

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

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And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and will be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. So I’ll let you pull up your beautiful slides. So let me share my slides with you all. You teach people how to relate to you.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. But, you can't teach the way you feel comfortable teaching all the time. ? This was circa 1997. What did I do?

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Arts Summit 2008: The Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations - Reflections

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Since we shared my laptop, she kindly gave me permission to upload her slides). You can find the slides and resources at my Arts and Social Media wiki. I spoke about social media and future leadership in the arts - and also did a workshop. I have a long history with the arts community in New York. It gets a good laugh.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. That’s the theory at least.