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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. What do you actually retain? And, what do you actually apply? Writing is better than reading.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

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My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching. I modify instructions or make accommodations for physical disabilities. I made this part of the instructions.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

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We were lucky enough to locate the training at the America House Kiev which offered the dream combination of great lattes, flexible space, state of the art equipment, and super fast internet. The first day the room layout was in small groups, to encourage knowledge sharing and co-learning. Here is what they shared: 1.)