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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. That was my big takeaway from Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Training Stick.”

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It's almost time for #11NTC - See you there?

Judi Sohn

Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. It's the new shiny.

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It’s almost time for #11NTC – See you there?

Judi Sohn

Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. It's the new shiny.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My early experience in doing technology training was collaborating with teachers to deliver professional development on how to integrate technology. I was introduced to lesson planning from veteran teachers and have written “lesson plans” or now that I’m an adjunct professor a syllabus for everything I teach.

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Be Your Own Filter In the Global Brain

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He talks about the impact of too much information on the human brain and considers how the human brain may evolve over time as the Internet matures and the amount of digital information increases. Some neurons in my brain made me connect back to Shenk's book I attended NDN's New Audiences, New Tools Forum. He said no.

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