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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

We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences. Adults tend to interpret information received in a training based on existing knowledge in their brains and then integrate it with previous experiences. Incorporate the three learning styles: visual, audio, and somatic.

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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. Using tools and a process, the words, ideas, experience, sounds, etc.,

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Both emphasize museums reaching out into the community to support, understand and experience what the community is already doing.

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