Hi Dave, List,
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Sabine" dave@davesabine.com
If you have a significant amount of time with the group I might be
inclined
to:
Determine the disparate levels of skills and knowledge of each person.
Then, assuming that you'll likely have some who know very little, and
some who know considerably MORE, I would organize the conference into a series of workshops. TOPIC + workshop wherein you can oversee the work of each group, but each group also has one of the more advanced users. Have the group teach the group.
The problem here is that the sessions will be spread over a few days - only be 2 hours long each and will be lecture style - a computer, a projector and some mics. This is the nature of the festival and we don't really have the resources to do otherwise.
Definitely not optimal... as you point out. So we're trying to work out the best way of working in the format that we're limited to.
Thanks for your ideas. Daniel