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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. I typically draw a vertical line down my notebook page, and label each column “Content” and “Instructional Process” to capture both types of notes. Here’s what I learned.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

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There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks to express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have debate get in the way of the instructional flow later on. a) Green: Great things you’ve heard of, or done yourself. Learning More.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. And then the fee for service is mostly school districts that contract with the Workshop for science enrichment/science instruction. I knew I could learn a lot from it.

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Bags at Blogher.and the orientation session

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Not many black boring bags at all - colors - pink and green seem to be popular. The session and moderator guidelines are designed to make the next a very interactive and participatory conference. I'm at the live blogging tutorial and people are introducing themselves and I've noticed some great computer and hand bags.

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Free2choose and the Social Dimension of Polling Interactives

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Every few feet on the bench, there is a small box about the size of a lightswitch with two buttons on it, one red and one green. Visitors see a ticking countdown and are told to vote by pressing either the green or red button on one of the small boxes. Green indicates yes, red, no. There are many other options.

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Lean Impact Series: 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact

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Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair). Gateway Green is a project in Portland to turn a stretch of unused land into a multi-use bike park. The Gateway Green team ran a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo , seeking $100,000 to begin work on the park. Vanessa Hurst, Girl Develop It (Co-Founder).

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process.

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