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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. You can also apply brain theory to designing and facilitating meetings at work.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. The model is called “SAVI” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

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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? .

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NTC: Plenary – Dan Heath, Flip the Switch

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. We have the wrong mental model for change.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end. Depending on the learning objectives, you could even skip the slides altogether, or adapt them for a pre-work activity. Peer: Shared knowledge and experiential learning that benefits from interaction between participants.

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NTC Plenary: Dan Heath, Flip the Switch

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. We have the wrong mental model for change.

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