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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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Ten Ways Small NGOs Can Collaborate

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NTEN and TechSoup list a few. Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. The GE Crotonville Center is the legendary example An easy "ask" for your local corporations is: can I get a donated seat in your classroom? What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? Some are free.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

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I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. I love the way NTEN does these sessions. An NTEN staff person interviews the expert on a conference call line, while people listen and post questions in the back channel. Know of any? They're done on the phone and chat.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

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You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. There's also dogooder.tv

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

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Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use.