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

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Like Geoff,s I often get tired of reading the same people and ideas over and over again – and like to discover new topics and thinking. Some new topics that are beckoning for me are: Effective teaching and learning techniques that can be used for designing and delivering training.

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What I Learned About Unpresenting from Heather Gold

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In addition to comedy, Heather is a keynote speaker and teaches her unique style of interactive performance in “ unpresenting &# workshops. Translation Techniques: If you use any jargon, be sure to pause and ask “Does everyone know what that is?&# Try to establish relevancy in the room.

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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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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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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? One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

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Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. Depending on the learning objectives, you could even skip the slides altogether, or adapt them for a pre-work activity. This can be a mix of presentations by peers, with lots of facilitated discussion and interaction.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.