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

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For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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The One Secret To Better Virtual Meetings: Empathy

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A common scenario is where the majority of meeting participants in one location, a conference room, and are trying to collaborate with a handful of invisible partners on the other end of phone line or video conference call. This can happen even if your organization is using video conferencing. The exercise teaches empathy.

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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

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The session provided strategy theory and a simulation exercise based on creating a digital activism campaign for the Story of Electronics film (that now has Arabic sub-titles ). Both language and what you’re teaching. Even if you have a video with sub-titles, the speakers might be speaking too fast.

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The Networked NGO in India

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The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea. ” On Day 2, we take a deep dive into understanding how to develop an integrated social media strategy, beginning with an exercise that helps participants really define what success means.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

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I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. But, you can't teach the way you feel comfortable teaching all the time. ? I am teaching two more sessions.

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An Internet Lesson in a Rural Cambodian Village: And Then You Wait.

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Computer classes are held every morning utilizing donated laptops and desktops (that are hand-carried over by Dr. Hendrie on her quarterly trips) Students, picked by lottery, come daily for six weeks to learn word processing, spread sheets, and Internet use, on our one, slow connection, acquiring a useful skill for future employment.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

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I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased.