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

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Since many of the guests are from time zones that are far away, to make it convenient, I will pre-record a video interview for students. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructional design. They can follow up with questions on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

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Typically, the facilitator may come up with a few provocative statements in advance, based on a participant assessment, interviews, or survey. But in this gathering, the provocative questions were crowdsourced from participants and this was done in small groups with sticky notes. Participants volunteered their question for the spectragram.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

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Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!

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I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. “I kissed a squirrel & I liked it” #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong. Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

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When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. I was inspired so I decided to alter one of the exercises in the design lab I facilitated two days later. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

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For this exercise, rather than having people sit and interview each other in pairs in the room I had them write down the interview questions on 3×5 card and go for 20 minute walk around the hotel and do a walking interview, ten minutes each. I told them to come back at a precise time.

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

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For each technique we were introduced to do, we were given a situation or simulation to apply it. The exercises we did were done individually (think and read/write), pairs (interviews), and in small groups. We debriefed in full groups. This may be mean rapid prototyping as well as front-end research.