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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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Use Learning Theory. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. Has the workshop been effective in advancing the participant’s learning?

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QuickBooks Keeps Kantorei Singing

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The participants learn the foundations of choir singing, such as posture and breathing, vocal technique, and tone. They also learn theory, ear training, foreign language skills, and the study of music within a social context. With reliable technology and software, of course! " Staying in Tune with QuickBooks.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

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Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. Gen Z by the Numbers.

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Twittering and Forgetting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The title of this post is a play on a book I read The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith in 1998 when I was working with arts educators on integrating technology into their lesson plans. I would recommend technology resources and they would share books about learning. She uses the favorites option.

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More on Collaborative Knowledge Capture for Conferences Using Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's simply because learning is a process that happens when the information shifts from short-term to long-term memory and results in changed beliefs and behaviors. Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into? But, as such, it's just grist for the learning mill - it's not yet learning.