As you plan your workshop, you'll also want to think about how to structure the presentation. We like to use the following design principles, which draw on Malcolm Knowles' work on adult learning theory. You may want to take a minute to familiarize yourself with this work if you're not already. The slides above draw on this theory by leveraging the following structure:
We start this workshop by establishing our "why" behind media projects. In other words, what are the benefits of multimedia creation in the classroom? To accomplish this in our intro workshop, we preview a piece of student media and ask workshop participants to discuss the impact of media projects on teaching and learning.
Next, we teach the skills aligned to one of the learning outcomes above and provide workshop participants time to practice by creating something, so they can learn by doing. This might include editing a video, saving assignments from the Assignment Ideas Library, or creating an assignment.
We also like to include time for people in our workshops to share their work with each other, whether that's a video they edit or a project they design. This is a great opportunity to celebrate their work and enable workshop participants to learn from each other.
Finally, we like to build in time for teachers to reflect and plan how they will use what they learned during the workshop in their classroom.