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

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I’ve collected the resources, notes, slides, and tweets from the session in this post. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? I am particularly grateful to Cindy Leonard who compiled and consolidated our slides based on the design. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching. You can find all resources materials here.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

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I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. This can be a mix of presentations by peers, with lots of facilitated discussion and interaction.

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RIP Google Reader: Don’t Scream Who Moved My Cheese, Pivot Your Reading

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Geoff Livingston had a great suggestion of using the Google Reader closing for a moment of self-reflection and to pivot and purge what you’re reading. Some new topics that are beckoning for me are: Effective teaching and learning techniques that can be used for designing and delivering training. If so what are they?

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

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” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” The New Social Economy. That’s changed. They want to combine both.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Teaching Nonprofits How To Bring Relevant Information To Their Desktop

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I participated in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop last fall where one of the participants was the thoughtful Nick Noakes who is the Associate Director for the Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching at a university in Hong Kong. " Here's the PDF of the slides. " I think he succeeded.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

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Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. I don't believe in the expert as one person, but more as a network.