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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Idealware's 2011 Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

You probably know Idealware from the excellent product comparisons and other articles that its writers contribute to our Learning Center. Rather than rely on my scattered brain to remember every great tool I find, I keep this meaty reference at my desk. Last year, we wrote about Idealware's Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits.

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Millennials and Direct Mail Campaigns: A Crash Course

Achieve

Emails are also direct marketing, but the sheer number of emails received throughout the day can make them feel less meaningful in comparison to a few personalized letters. . also supports the impact of physical documents as our brains comprehend text better when it’s printed than when it’s on a screen.

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Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap

Gyrus

Then, by comparison, that same definition is described in detail, portrayed with a depiction and a layer of organizational relevance is also applied. People learn in different ways, and in an eLearning, the human element is removed causing the need for content to be taught in a variety ways in one sitting. Adaptability.

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#datanerds: Six Steps to Great Graphs and Charts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People are better at judging length, so bar charts are a decent option also useful for comparisons. Our brains make better sense of the data when we replace the legend with direct line labels. It’s difficult to interpret area, so if you use a pie, restrict the number of wedges to 4 or fewer. Step 4: Directly Label. It will feel good.

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Things We Like (August 2010)

NTEN

If you're looking for a new mass e-mail platform, you should check out Groundwire's precisely named " E-mail Service Provider Comparison Report 2010 " Wired recently declared that the Web is dead. Regular readers of this space will know there's a growing consensus that technology is physically changing the ways our brains work.

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