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

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It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

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This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Internet connectivity in this very rural area was a challenge – which is why the last few days of the training sessions were held in Kigali so participants could get some hands-on practice. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

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Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Adults who work for nonprofits and feeling pressured to adopt and incorporate social networking tools and techniques. Performance ???

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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

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Here’s what he said about the Networked Nonprofit: “The Internet means never having to ask permission before trying something new. Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory.

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Flickr As Mechanism To Reconnect With Professional Colleagues

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I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. skills like how to search the Internet, how to manage email, how to build a simple web page with HTML, and other good stuff. I was teaching Web1.0

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What's a Watt Stopper? My First FLIP Camera Experiment

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See 3 Video Guide: This step-by-by video guide goes from the picture to the techniques of story telling and into editing and marketing. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. There's also a YouTube Channel with some how-to videos and lots of other useful information.

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Reflections from Wow2 conversation: Nonprofit Due Dilligence and Micro Blogging in the developing world.

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How do you optimize your media (like video and photographs) to upload quickly and take up less time (and money spent) at an Internet cafe? It isn't all about technical issues like compression, but it is also covers aesthetics -- for example, with video blogging using the technique of moment capture.