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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. In the first portion of the training, Jeanne and Cindy modeled four great practices for designing training content, including: Spend a little time researching adult learning theory, or.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

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Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. This book is filled with great tips on designing engaging learning experiences that help your participants connect, inspire, and engage. Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J.

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Twittering and Forgetting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The title of this post is a play on a book I read The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith in 1998 when I was working with arts educators on integrating technology into their lesson plans. I would recommend technology resources and they would share books about learning.

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More on Collaborative Knowledge Capture for Conferences Using Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's simply because learning is a process that happens when the information shifts from short-term to long-term memory and results in changed beliefs and behaviors. Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into? But, as such, it's just grist for the learning mill - it's not yet learning.