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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. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the early days, the nonprofit technology community was a small community of that was generously shared its knowledge and skills. (The The same values hold true today over at NTEN ). He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Tips for Good Openings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning is about connecting the dots to existing knowledge and skills so participants can build on it during the training. (3) Next week at the NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I am co-leading a session with fellow nonprofit tech trainers, John Kenyon, Jeanne Allen, and Cindy Leonard on how to supercharge your training.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. NTEN / Portland, OR / $899. Feb 21 - 24.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I gave a lightening talk at the Gates Foundation convening of the Markets for Good community on “ Between the Keyboard and the Chair “ Facilitation and Train the Trainers: I was honored to co-facilitate a leadership track at the first ever Leading Change Summit hosted by NTEN which was an amazing learning experience.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

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Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. Since most educational games struggle to find logical ways to be integrated into a classroom, Ovos took a different approach by creating a game based solely on curriculum-based material. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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