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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

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Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. What was your experience?

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea. ” On Day 2, we take a deep dive into understanding how to develop an integrated social media strategy, beginning with an exercise that helps participants really define what success means.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises. I said yes. There was also excellent AV support and acoustics.

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Game Friday: Do Games Have to Be Fun To Be Good?

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He notes that film, music, visual art, and literature have evolved as media that are used in all kinds of environments, from the mundane to the profound. Scott McCloud makes a similar argument for "sequential art" in his excellent book Understanding Comics. Supposedly it improves your brain function.

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