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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

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If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

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The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. The Accelerated Learning Handbook.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

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Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

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I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training? I told them to come back at a precise time.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

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see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. In other words, to what end?

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The Networked NGO in India

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This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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