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Collaborating in Virtual Silence | Post Growth Institute

Collaborating in Virtual Silence | Post Growth Institute | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it

Might this be an option for peer learning check-ins in the future? 

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How To Avoid Being Dependent on PPT Slides As Memory Aids

How To Avoid Being Dependent on PPT Slides As Memory Aids | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it

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I present and teach workshops on many topics.   And getting content into brain can be a challenge.     You should be able to glance at your slide and know what's coming. 


Here's some tips to help memorize your content

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Peeragogy Cmap - Testing Cmap tool for representing peeragogy outline

Peeragogy Cmap - Testing Cmap tool for representing peeragogy outline | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it
This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Peeragogy Cmap, Work Doing research, Work Finding resources, Meta-learning (learning about learning) Learning to Learn, Socio-technical...
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Colleen Stevenson graphic recording, facilitation and custom wall charts

Colleen Stevenson graphic recording, facilitation and custom wall charts | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it
The three main areas of custom chart work are graphic facilitation, graphic recording and custom chart work...
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Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught

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Lecturing was invented as a way to share information in a time before books were widely available. Now, there are better approaches.


Peer Instruction


Rather than teaching by telling, he teaches by questioning. 


Here's how he does it:


Before each class, students are assigned reading in the textbook. Pretty standard for a lecture class, but if you talk to college students you'll find that many of them don't bother with the reading ahead of time.


They come to class to figure out what information the professor thinks is important, then they go to the textbook to read up on what they didn't understand.



"In my approach I've inverted that," says Mazur.

He expects students to familiarize themselves with the information before hand so that class time can be spent helping them understand what the information means.



To make sure his students are prepared, Mazur has set up a web-based monitoring system where everyone has to submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them. He uses their answers to prepare a set of multiple-choice questions he uses during class.


Mazur begins class by giving a brief explanation of a concept he wants students to understand. Then he asks one of the multiple-choice questions. Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur's laptop.


Next, he asks the students to turn to the person sitting next to them and talk about the question. The class typically erupts in a cacophony of voices, as it did that first time he told students to talk to each other because he couldn't figure out what else to do.


Once the students have discussed the question for a few minutes, Mazur instructs them to answer the question again.




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Euan Semple - Google+ - How to design your presentations for social sharing Thanks…

Euan Semple - Google+ - How to design your presentations for social sharing Thanks… | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it
How to design your presentations for social sharing Thanks to the relentless spread of social media and mobile devices, the art and practice of making…...
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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations is a coalition of grantmakers committed to building strong and effective nonprofit organizations.
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10 Ways to Avoid Burnout as an Entrepreneur - Forbes

10 Ways to Avoid Burnout as an Entrepreneur - Forbes | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it
Running your own business takes a tremendous amount of time and energy. And, as we learned last week, entrepreneurs are uniquely prone to exhausting themselves. This makes for a bad combination that can have a dangerous result: burnout.
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How To Host Engaging Online Events: Key Principles

How To Host Engaging Online Events: Key Principles | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it
How do you transform a webinar or an Internet conference into a memorable, highly engaging and useful event?
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Thought this was a great post! What do you think?
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Bloom’s Taxonomy and iPad Apps | Langwitches Blog

Bloom’s Taxonomy and iPad Apps | Langwitches Blog | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it
LearningToday shares with everyone two beautiful posters, that help us remember Bloom’s Taxonomy: the Blooming Butterfly and the Blooming Orange. How do we connect the Bloom’s Taxonomy with the iPad?
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Objections to participation in conferences « Chris Corrigan

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networked-ngo - The Networked NGO

networked-ngo - The Networked NGO | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it

I would write a quick summary! 

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Facilitation Resources « Chris Corrigan

Facilitation Resources « Chris Corrigan | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it
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About + FAQs | TechCampGlobal

About + FAQs | TechCampGlobal | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it

TechCamp is a program under Secretary Clinton’s Civil Society (CS) 2.0 initiative – an effort to galvanize the technology community to assist CS organizations across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to enable CS organizations (CSOs) to harness the latest ICT advances to build their digital capacity. In Introducing Civil Society 2.0, Secretary Clinton stated:

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Teaching strategies

Teaching strategies | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it

Useful handbook for instructional design including lots of ideas for classroom activities

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Peeragogy Lit Review - Google Docs

I found this via Howard Rheingold

https://plus.google.com/u/0/105273428597140573510/posts/RkYnTESdw8d



A new term for me "peerogogy" - self organized peer learning.  It attracted me because I'm doing organized peer learning and dabbling in self-organized peer learning.


I have been involved in an experiment of self-organized peer learning for the past 18 months with colleagues in social media and nonprofits - and this gives me some underlying research/frameworks/thinkers to connect to better understand it.


From the document:


According to Charles Jeffrey Danoff, writer, educator, and organizer at P2PU, peeragogy (which he refers to as “paragogy”), is a collection of “the best practices of effective peer learning.” (Paragogy: Synergizing individual and organizational learning) It is also a theory of peer-to-peer learning and teaching that addresses the challenge of peer-producing a useful and supportive context for self-directed learning.


Danoff is currently putting together a book on peeragogy, in which he outlines 5 principles that encompass what the growing movement has been trying to accomplish:


  • Changing context as a decentered center.
  • Meta-learning as a font of knowledge.
  • Peers provide feedback that wouldn’t be there otherwise.
  • Learning is distributed and nonlinear.
  • Realize the dream if you can, then wake up!
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A new term for me "peerogogy" - self organized peer learning.  It attracted me because I'm doing organized peer learning and dabbling in self-organized peer learning.

 

I have been involved in an experiment of self-organized peer learning for the past 18 months with colleagues in social media and nonprofits - and this gives me some underlying research/frameworks/thinkers to connect to better understand it.

 

From the document:

 

According to Charles Jeffrey Danoff, writer, educator, and organizer at P2PU, peeragogy (which he refers to as “paragogy”), is a collection of “the best practices of effective peer learning.” (Paragogy: Synergizing individual and organizational learning) It is also a theory of peer-to-peer learning and teaching that addresses the challenge of peer-producing a useful and supportive context for self-directed learning.

 

Danoff is currently putting together a book on peeragogy, in which he outlines 5 principles that encompass what the growing movement has been trying to accomplish:

 

Changing context as a decentered center.Meta-learning as a font of knowledge.Peers provide feedback that wouldn’t be there otherwise.Learning is distributed and nonlinear.Realize the dream if you can, then wake up!
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Michele M. Martin's ePortfolio - Reflective Practice for TAFE

Michele M. Martin's ePortfolio - Reflective Practice for TAFE | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it
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Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool : NPR

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http://www.bethkanter.org"With modern technology, if all there is is lectures, we don't need faculty to do it," Redish says. "Get 'em to do it once, put it on the Web, and fire the faculty."



Role has changed in instruction.  It is no longer just about information delivery, and more about making sense of the information facilitated by the instructor.


"It used to be just be the 'sage on the stage,' the source of knowledge and information," he says. "We now know that it's not good enough to have a source of information."


Mazur sees himself now as the "guide on the side" – a kind of coach, working to help students understand all the knowledge and information that they have at their fingertips. Mazur says this new role is a more important one.



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50 Teachers Who Are Social Media Stars | Best Colleges Online

50 Teachers Who Are Social Media Stars | Best Colleges Online | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it

Good list of teachers who use social media

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations is a coalition of grantmakers committed to building strong and effective nonprofit organizations.
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Graphic facilitation workshop

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Agenda for Graphic Facilitation Workshop at Share Fair Rome
1. Paired drawing exercise - a4 paper and pens, 15 minutes plus debrief and segue into workshop introduction and slides (45 minutes)
2. B...
Nancy White's comment, December 23, 2011 12:48 PM
Beth, I'd love to share what I've learned doing these workshops some day!
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Training for Nonprofits That Sticks? Yes, It’s Possible! (July 14, 2011) | Opinion Blog | Stanford Social Innovation Review

Training for Nonprofits That Sticks? Yes, It’s Possible! (July 14, 2011) | Opinion Blog | Stanford Social Innovation Review | Nonprofit Capacity Building and Training | Scoop.it
The focus on preparing leaders to change, rather than actual implementation. “Ready, Set, Go.” Skills-building, reports, and plans, will only take people so far (i.e., “Ready” and “Set”). In the end, they need to be able to take action (i.e., “Go”).
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