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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

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Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. When I’m training other trainers, I often get asked “What books should I read?” Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

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Photo by Equal Rights Advocates. Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.”

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Photo by Gary Clark. I have a goal for one learning day per month where I will take workshop on instructional topics and share those here. Year in Review.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

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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. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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

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While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. But, the brain fog has started to fade. Here's where the coffee cup photos enter. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

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They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. Colleges and vocational schools have interns that will write for free because they can earn credit. Which was more compelling, the list of facts, or the story with the photo?

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