Chapter 10: Running a Workshop
A workshop provides a place for students in a class to see an example project, upload their individual projects, and see and assess each other's projects. They are ideal for courses that include higher-level orders of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives, beginning with Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. When a teacher requires each student to assess the work of several other students, the workshop becomes a powerful collaborative grading tool. It is also an ideal tool for peer review.
Workshops are ideal for putting into practice a theory or a technique. They allow students to apply the concepts and also to take a building block approach, with guidance and help along each step of the way. In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:
- Determining the best time to use a workshop
- Identifying when to incorporate group projects into the workshop
- Implementing various types of workshop strategies
- Detailing...
