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How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session

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In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Instructional Design. Creating a Network Map.

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

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They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructional design. Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo.

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

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For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings.

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Learn You Will: #14ntc Nonprofit Tech Training Session Reflection and Resources

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Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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What Pokémon Go Means to the Learning Industry

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As per Merriam-Webster, “Augmented Reality is an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device (as a smartphone camera).” In conclusion, embrace this new era of technology and what we can experience in our daily lives.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

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These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. The Importance of Icebreakers: Getting To Know People in the Room.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

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organizational change, and technology. This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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