Remove Brain Remove Exercise Remove Resource Remove Slides
article thumbnail

Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

Content 130
article thumbnail

Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need. So, you have to design for that.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Small group or partnering learning activity: Reflection on reading materials, debriefing on exercises or practice activities, identifying issues and concerns, brainstorming ideas and solutions to bring to the whole group, action research. Medium: Up to 50 people. The connection between participants is less intimate.

article thumbnail

NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. A good exercise is to try to convert your intangibles. Can the conversion be accomplished with minimum resources? If subjected myself to an tracking my time exercise in the beginning, I wouldn't be blogging today. (tags: nonprofits roi ).

ROI 50
article thumbnail

[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

And just a couple of real quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out that recording as well as the slides later on. Well, let me take down my slides because they want to hear from you, not me. So are you ready for me to present my slides? .

People 78
article thumbnail

A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People in Philadelphia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to). Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain.

article thumbnail

[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . So if you are curious about that, or maybe you’re shopping before the end of the year, check out our website there’s all kinds of great resources. Kevin, when you’re ready you can put the slide deck up. So good news.

Money 107