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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

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My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. I believe that interactive training makes for better learning and there is research to back that up. I modify instructions or make accommodations for physical disabilities. I made this part of the instructions.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

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When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Images are better than words for instructional aids. All these techniques incorporate interaction and better processing of your content.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

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While I delivered some content sessions on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn strategy, I also facilitated interactive sessions. However, with interactive exercises there is a time lag – so I did a little exercise in the beginning to do some social engineering in the room. We had folks color code their name tags.