In the first part of this guide, I covered the advance setup of the workshop on Zoom. Now it’s time for the exciting stuff – running the workshop itself. Note: As a reminder, this post doesn’t cover all the design aspects of a workshop (you can join our Workshop Creator…
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How to create an interactive workshop in Zoom
A step by step guide to setting up and running an interactive 90-minute workshop in Zoom. Note: This is part 1 of a 2 part series. Part 2 is here > Edit: Zoom published details of updated security settings on April 5th. Read those here > Over the last couple…
How to design a workshop slide deck
We’ve probably all sat through classes, lectures, workshops, and courses where we’ve encountered Death by Powerpoint. Cluttered slides. Cliched stock imagery. No narrative. Monotone delivery. Just the mention of its name can send chills down the spine. Perhaps the colour drains from your face at the prospect of experiencing it….
The Workshop Stack
Here at Wavetable we’re very excited about the future of learning. We believe two of the biggest factors in this future are workshops and a new wave of educator-creators. We’ll see enormous growth in interactive workshops sculpted and led by a diverse range of creative educators who want to make…
5 ways to run better remote workshops
Over the past few years, a new wave of collaboration tools have been a key driver in the growth of remote working. First championed by software companies and digital nomads, organizations of all shapes and sizes are now exploring, if not fully embracing, what’s possible with remote and distributed teams….
The Joy of 6
There’s much to learn from musical educators, and educational musicians. The first pilot episode of Schoolhouse Rock talked about 3 – its magical powers of indivisibility, and multiplication. Just over 15 years later, De La Soul sampled the schoolhouse because they too knew 3 was the magic number: Without my…
4 Workshop Mindsets
Imagine you get asked to run a workshop. How would you tackle it? Perhaps you’re feeling really confident in your abilities, or you believe the group will instinctively be able to get where they need to go. You can just show up with a loose agenda and a few slides….
The new alumni
Alumni: a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university. For a very long time I didn’t understand what this word meant. When I was at university I heard it mentioned in passing, and then after I finished [1] it kept cropping up on various marketing propaganda…
“What do you mean, ‘a workshop’?”
For centuries the word ‘workshop’ simply referred to a place where goods were manufactured or repaired. To begin with, these workshops were solely singular rooms, but increasingly they became buildings or complexes where many makers would share resources and collaborate. Alongside these workshops, in today’s connected world we now have…
Building the 10 key skills for 2020
We all know the world is changing quickly, and that we all need to build and develop new skills to stay relevant and on top of what’s coming around the corner. The World Economic Forum earmarked the following 10 skills as the most valuable ones to have in 2020: Judgment…