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How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session

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Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Instructional Design. Design Labs.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on “Data Informed Philanthropy” hosted by the Packard Foundation – not only was the content compelling (stay tuned for a post on that), but it was also a fantastic opportunity to observe one of the best facilitators I know, Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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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. They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student. Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo.

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Learn You Will: #14ntc Nonprofit Tech Training Session Reflection and Resources

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It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. Our session was really about “train the trainer” which requires going beyond mere content delivery and do what I call “going meta.” The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

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Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time!

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The Networked NGO in India

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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. Program Design. Participants create a poster of their networks, view other the network maps of others, and then do a debrief.

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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. Program Design. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

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