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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not. The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. Last year, I did a workshop at a conference for professionals who do audio description, a service that makes visual images of theatre, television, movies, and other art forms accessible to people are who blind or have low vision.

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Free Live Chat on February 26: How to Get Grants for Your International Work

Tech Soup

She is an attorney who has counseled hundreds of charitable organizations in the areas of tax and corporate law with Adler & Colvin and in private practice and regularly lectures on the topics of. It will not have audio. international philanthropy and grantmaking. She graduated from Harvard. College and Harvard Law School.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Quindi makes capturing meeting video/audio and action items really easy. Last week Jane Simchuk, Dave Offen and I got a demonstration of Quindi: the Meeting Capture tool. The link to Quindi came from my old buddy Patti Price, who I've known for many years as a leading speech technology researcher.

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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

Care2

Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. This app is heavily informed by its content and can adapt with each new exhibition installed at the museum.

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. The first was lecture and discussion at the Berkman Center's virtual island on Avatar Marketing based on the article written by a HBS professor. I also turned off my audio.

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Is my site accessible?

Connection Cafe

I’ll spare you a lecture on that subject here by reminding you that your site should, most definitely, be accessible. Is all graphic and audio/visual content also represented in text somehow? Chances are, you already know how important it is to have an accessible web site. So, how do you know if it is? Hint: use the TAB key).