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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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It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. Here is what they shared: 1.)