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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

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The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises. Incorporate the three learning styles: visual, audio, and somatic. Using a content interaction exercise grid to prepare varied interactive exercises (a blank grid is included with the session handouts).

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

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The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. As you plan your facilitator outline,review each activity or exercise focusing specifically on how remote participants will engage.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

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Someone on the call had moderator access and was able to flip the slides (I had them memorized) and they also read any of the questions in the chat line to me. I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work. We got started about a half hour late. No problem.

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How To Facilitate Effective Virtual Meetings

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Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. Here are some more tips for making audio-only conference calls more impactful. Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

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Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

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You should already have the slides, but in case I missed you, we’ll send all that good stuff later on today. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. If you have the slides already, I’m going to ask you to try to not read along because you can only either listen or read, not both.