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To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting

Candid

In summary, the arts play a well-documented role in shaping resilient and well-rounded individuals during their formative years. Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? But now we’re missing an “as” before “supported by research” in the first sentence.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. I also gave them a summary of recent research from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute about giving motivations for women’s and girl’s causes. If you know me, sticky notes and marker were also involved.

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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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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

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As a trainer, I create two agendas – a participant agenda which is a summary and a more detailed facilitator’s agenda. There is always a dance between too much detail and specific times vs less detail. The other orientation piece is the agenda. The Importance of Icebreakers: Getting To Know People in the Room.

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Coaching in your Learning and Development Program

Gyrus

Instructional designers have been trying for years to come up with the perfect teachings for organizational entities, with learnings ranging from electronic, social, micro, mobile, instructor-led, and blended. .” In summary, coaching is a unique value added concept to a learning and development program.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

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I recently submitted a proposal for NTEN’s 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference with colleagues Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon and Jeanne Allen called “ Supercharge Your Technology Training ,” so please take a minute to vote for it. . I often incorporate sticky notes and often have to rearrange the furniture.

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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

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The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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