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

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As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

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Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. I also recently discovered this post/podcast called " Remixing the Classroom." The podcast outlines the metaphor further.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

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whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. The blog focuses on instructional approaches, not on the technologies themselves. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively???whether

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). Step 1: Find People. Hiring people.

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