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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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? What do you actually retain? And, what do you actually apply? It is good to begin with low-risk.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A quick focus on the solutions without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking. We were asked to listen to a PPT presentation that shared the history, mission, goals, challenges and opportunities. But, there was a twist – we were asked to do critical or active listening.

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The iPad as an Honest to Goodness Business Tool: 4 Apps You Need

NTEN

LogMeIn allows me to log into my computer back at the office and control it, opening apps, printing docs, running searches in our database. They are nowhere near as fully fucntioning as the counterparts, but these apps get the job done, and allow you to send.doc,ppt, and.xls versions to your colleagues. Keynote/Pages/Numbers.

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The iPad as an Honest to Goodness Business Tool: 4 Apps You Need

NTEN

LogMeIn allows me to log into my computer back at the office and control it -- opening apps, printing docs, running searches in our database, haunting office-mates. They are nowhere near as fully functioning as their counterparts, but these apps get the job done, and allow you to send.doc,ppt, and.xls versions to your colleagues.

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26 great apps for your new 2020 Windows PC

The Verge

It’s quite similar to Microsoft 365 and can open and edit Office documents — except it’s completely free. The Suite includes Writer (Word), Spreadsheets (Excel), PDF Editor, and Presentation (PowerPoint), which can open nearly all Microsoft Office formats (including.docx,ppt, and.xls, for example). 7-Zip / PeaZip.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. It is a work in process and as a trainer you have to be open to learning and adapting. This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching. … Read More.

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The Future of Mobiles for Nonprofits

NTEN

We should not take this lightly, but rather approach it with "beginners mind" and be open to the student educating the teacher. As the artist replays what just happened and slows it down for the brush or the pen, so too we need to be open to surprises, rewind and play them back in slow motion until we get the nugget of meaning.

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