Talk:Presenting a workshop
Source: http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Seminars&oldid=45821
- make seminar a 5 star event
- Not a top down approach.
- ask "who is the training valuable to?" (see a good trainer}
- assure your bets
- example of product that is too important to screw up. faced with deciding which manufacturer to go with. decided to go with BOTH.
- "trickle up" -example of dock worker that figures out how to make some process more efficient, he is empowered to make the change himself, and document it. Subsequent workers use his improved process, impacts bottom line. It is based on small simple changes.
- Follow up on training
Delivering mediaWiki presentations
Having presented a few workshops, both training people in basic mediaWiki usage and for technical statistical workshops I have found a number of points important. If possible use a computer suite so every person is behind a PC with web access to the tutorial, this also reduces issues since all machines are the same and should have internet connectivity. I prefer to run the entire presentation in mediaWiki, Extension:CSS allows a wikipoint style presentation to be delivered, where any potential issues are easily fixed on the fly since it is a wiki. Any problems for attendies to do should be the same common problem so as to minimise the presenters workload. Since users contributions are logged it is straight forward to monitor progress as homework if necessary. Any integration of workshop material with other applications such as programming languages should be done so that text commands can be seemlessly copied across, the concepts are what is important not the syntax detail of commands which so often looses people. --Sven 21:02, 12 January 2009 (NZDT)
