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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

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Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. What to do?

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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

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I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.”

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual).

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

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Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. We arranged for wifi in the room and asked participants to bring their laptops).

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The Networked NGO in India

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It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

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It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

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But, the brain fog has started to fade. The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. My travel hassles combined with sleep deprivation made it really difficult to write complete sentences.

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