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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

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There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. Another option is to briefly share some content or a framework to kick off the participant knowledge sharing. We opted for the latter.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. More specifically, datamaking is an action whereby we transform information into data so that data can contribute to knowledge.

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

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Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. Strategic Dialogue.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

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I charted them across the year and pledged to try one each month, inviting others to do them with me and blog about the experience. Experimonth had the potential to generate new scientific knowledge. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Thus began a year of play.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

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The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

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For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. Then, he charts the incidence of each of these six for many different major comic empires (i.e. Ideas design participatory museum interactives. Narratively, this makes sense. X-Men) and artists.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Experience a Sea of Support - come ride the wave of knowledge!