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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th

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New from NTEN: Technology Champion Master Classes

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Instead of a lecture-filled one-day workshop, we instead challenge you to do your homework and readings before the class. event Leadership master class nptech nten Strategy technology champion workshop' This is not one of those workshops where you listen to the teacher and feel your eyes glazing over by the end of the day.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about. Interactive Lectures by Sivasailam Thiagarajan. If you teach in higher education, you most likely will find yourself having to deliver a lecture. Training Design'

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Human attention peaks at about about 12 minutes, particularly if it is a lecture. The learners will space out and come back to attention but not as at the high level at they did at the beginning of the presentation. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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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. Content Delivery Is Not Learning. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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The 10th Anniversary Games for Change Festival

NTEN

With the aim of bridging the gap between commercial and issue-driven games, the conference will highlight case studies, roundtables, lectures, and demos to strive for further collaberation in game development and distribution. Plus, NTEN community members can reach an additional 10% off with the discount code: nten.

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Who Sits at Your Leadership Table? A Case for Senior Technologists

NTEN

He is a frequent speaker on nonprofit tech issues at forums, including the Google Grants Conference, NTEN, U.N. Youth Summit, NonProfit Coordinating Committee NY, National Conference on Volunteering and Service, National Red Cross Conference for Volunteers, and as a guest lecturer at NYU and NYIT.