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Išd love to hear more from those new to conferences what makes a good workshop. I think that different people often want different things, but I could be wrong about that! For facilitating, my top tip is to always keep it interactive. If you have to convey a lot of information, can you break it up so therešs never any more than a few minutes of you talking before therešs an activity? Donšt be scared to talk to set up activities, but do divide it into chunks. For example, at a workshop Išm doing with a colleague on Monday, we need to tell people about WEMI and about how to recognise an RDA record, and whereas in a paper wešd have that flowing together, for the workshop, wešve got WEMI explanation, WEMI activity, RDA recognition, RDA activity. In good workshops, youšre really a facilitator with a big bag of activities, which makes it easier / less daunting for some people and harder / more daunting for others depending on your teaching style. :) On 09/09/2015 11:33, "CIG E-Forum on behalf of Claire Sewell" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote: >Calls for workshops are frequently included in CfP. Whereas a >traditional presentation involves the presenter talking to an audience a >workshop is much more interactive and involves different preparation. > >As workshops involve audience participation you may need to prepare >additional materials such as handouts or cards. When doing this you need >to keep the needs of the audience and the practicalities of the space in >mind. I've been to conference workshops where presenters clearly haven't >considered the room they will be in as they ask us to divide into groups >in a very confined space. From this and other observations, making sure >you know your space as well as you can in advance would be my top tip >for preparing a workshop. > >Does anyone else have any other tips or observations that they want to >share? Have you seen something done really well or even really badly >that you would like to avoid? > >Claire >-- >Claire Sewell, MSc, MCLIP >Reader Services Desk >Cambridge University Library >West Road >Cambridge >CB3 9DR > >Find me online: http://about.me/clairesewell