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#visdo: Visualise like Mac Gyver

What to do when the seminar room is empty?

Let’s say your seminar is today. You arrive early to prepare everything. You enter the room. Emptiness. Where you would have expected a projector, a flipchart or whiteboard, or at least pens, you find nothing. And there is no one far and wide who can provide what is missing. The participants are on their way, it will soon start. What to do? Panic? Not us.

Because today I’m giving you a little toolbox that will enable you to use images in your seminar without any outside aids or materials. You can do that? Oh yes.

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#dimi_18: Collaboration as a learning principle

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As a trainer, how can I create a safe framework for collaborative learning?

Haven’t we done that already? Why another #dimi on this topic? The answer is that creating a collaborative learning environment is one of the most central questions in the design of learning processes and therefore deserves a lot of attention.

This blog post addresses the question of what makes a group work well and what it takes for me as a trainer to make this happen.

Using the SCARF model, I will explain why group work and other forms of collaborative learning can unconsciously generate a lot of stress and what we as trainers can do to turn stress into a positive learning zone.

In order to follow well on from the #dimi_17, I will summarise the most important statements once again:

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#dimi_17: Collaboration as a learning

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Why cooperation is sometimes so difficult and yet can increase learning success

Have you also experienced that learning in a group is sometimes easy and fun and sometimes feels like an uphill struggle with no satisfying outcome?

This blog post explores the conditions that make collaborative learning work well at times and create frustration at others. Where is the turning point when learners are motivated to participate despite initial resistance because they realise that they can take away more from this kind of learning than from a full-frontal lecture?

The current #dimi is about what collaborative learning is and how it can contribute to the development of competences. The next #dimi will then take a closer look at the conditions that make collaborative learning difficult or easier.

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#mm: Storytelling online

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Stories and examples for lecture, training and seminar

On 14 October 2020, the seminar „Storytelling in trade union education work“ took place for the second time. This time online and therefore also shortened in time. The big question for the trainers Michael Ziereis and Ulli Lipp: Storytelling, is it also possible online? How much is lost when we hear the narrators through the speaker and see them as a section of a picture?

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#mm: Methods with distance – Part 2

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Lineups with avatars

Constellations are an extremely popular method that many trainers like to use often – so often that they even made it into our series „Annoying Methods“.
In Corona times, however, constellations cannot be done anyway – unless perhaps the whole group goes outside and everyone takes their baby elephants with them. So what to do?

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#mm: Methods with distance – Part 1

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Classroom training is starting up again. Now, methods are needed in which we don’t get too close to each other and in which the risk of infection is also minimized in other ways. There is much more to it than just a frontal lecture. Diversity of methods and especially the activation of the participants are also important in times of a pandemic! Here are our experiences after practical tests.

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#mm: Tips for closing

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Designing the end of trainings, courses and seminars

Conclusions of seminars & co. are a key point in the learning process. They also determine whether participants leave the seminar room full of energy and encouragement or get up from their computers after a webinar. We have compiled tips and suggestions: How do I close the bag?

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#dimi_06: Learning targets

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Why learning goals create orientation

*Impressions from my holidays*
*Photo: Margret Steixner*

Welcome back from the summer break. Which travel destination did you choose? The local mountains and lakes or did the sea call to you, as it did to me? Wherever the destination was, it was certainly formative for your entire holiday planning. The same goes for learning goals.

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#dimi_05: Training design

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Why planning and quality go hand in hand

„Planning is half the battle“ is a saying that also applies to the matter of training design. In order to be able to successfully design learning processes, I make numerous preliminary considerations that help me as a trainer to obtain clarity in advance about the content, the methods, but also the group and the necessary spatial conditions.

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Methoden Toolbox für Soziale Inklusion

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outdoor education centre Nouriso-ja
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Unser REFAK Absolvent Michael Scheuchenegger ist auch in der internationalen Jugendbildung tätig.
Dabei entstand im Rahmen des Erasmus+ Projekts “outdoor activities for inclusion” gemeinsam mit Teilnehmer*innen aus neun europäischen Ländern, ein praktisches Handbuch mit erlebnispädagogischen Methoden aus ganz Europa.

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