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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Do we need to the whole hour to accomplish the same amount of work?

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Does the staff have any evaluation experience? What level of interest and incentives to learn and implement evaluation are present? Staff with position, rank, or experience. Someone with a sense of humor who can see the big-picture to promote a positive environment and ground the experience. are available?

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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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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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This book is filled with great tips on designing engaging learning experiences that help your participants connect, inspire, and engage. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. The ideas, tips, and tricks are grounded in adult learning theory, but the book is very practical.

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More on Collaborative Knowledge Capture for Conferences Using Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Loretta argues: The first supposition is that as various means are used to capture the proceedings of an event, (Nancy mentions: Chat/IRC, Videocasts, VOIPcasts, Podcasts, and Visual Facilitation), the performance of encapsulating and depicting is in itself learning. Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into?

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences. Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. I did an experiment in my wording with the session introduction. Then, he moved to museums as a "thing to do"--to touch things, play with interactives.

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