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How do you prepare a workshop checklist?

Workshop Leader Checklist Set the goals and objectives of the workshop. Set the scope of the workshop program. Decide what participants will create/submit for the resource collection. Set the selection criteria for workshop participation. Write the application questions. More items... •

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Workshop Leader Checklist

This page is intended to help Cutting Edge follow-on workshop leaders (and their mentors) keep track of all of the tasks associated with planning and running a follow-on workshop, from the beginning of planning through the final report.

Workshop Design and Website Development

Set the goals and objectives of the workshop

Set the scope of the workshop program

Decide what participants will create/submit for the resource collection

Set the selection criteria for workshop participation

Write the application questions

Set the application deadline (usually 2 months prior to workshop)

Set the registration fee; this should be sufficient to cover all of the workshop leader's (or leaders') expenses

Develop the workshop website, beginning with the index, overview, and application pages

Develop the workshop program, paying attention to best practices in workshop design

Work out the logistical details (room numbers, etc.)

Expand the workshop website to include whichever of the following are appropriate: logistics page, program, registration form, participant list, any upload forms for participant submissions, and pages for those submissions

Publicity

Think about who your target audience is

Plan ahead: make sure your website will be ready when it's time to send out your first announcements! If your workshop will take place in association with a professional society meeting, your first publicity will be when abstracts have been accepted for that meeting, so that meeting attendees can plan their travel accordingly Think about how to get the word out to your target audience. There are many suggestions on the workshop recruitment and publicity page.

Workshop Evaluation

Plan time for workshop evaluation, including reflection and action planning, into your program All Cutting Edge workshops (including follow-on workshops) collect a standard set of data for evaluation purposes. Information on these data can be found on the page about planning your workshop evaluation

Your goal is 100% participation in the workshop evaluation process

Consider doing some form of embedded assessment

Post-Workshop Reflection Report

Write a workshop report and complete workshop reflection for evaluation

How many participants attended

What they learned

What you learned: what went particularly well, what you would do differently if you did it again Any feedback you have about the mentoring process, both in terms of the workshop design and the website development process

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The four best methods for joining wood together are pocket screws, dowels, biscuits and the Beadlock system.

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To use a pocket hole jig, just clamp your workpiece in the jig and drill the steeply angled holes. The thickness of the stock you’re drilling into determines the jig’s positioning as well as the setting of the drill bit’s stop collar. The included drill bit bores a flat-bottom hole with a short pilot hole at the center to guide the screw into the adjoining part. Apply wood glue , clamp the parts together and drive the screws. Some pocket hole jigs are portable, so you can clamp them onto a workpiece that’s too large to put on your workbench.

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Pros and Cons of Dowels

Pros

Positive alignment both directions

Mating dowel holes can be positioned anywhere using dowel centers.

Cons

Requires clamping

Slow

A solid, easy-to-use doweling jig won’t cost too much, around $50. You’ll need a supply of dowels and, like the pocket hole method, the only tool you need is a drill. Dowels for joinery are different from standard dowel rods found at the hardware store. Joinery dowels are grooved to keep glue from getting trapped in the bottom of the hole, preventing the parts from pulling together. The greater gluing surface provides a somewhat mechanical grip. Unlike pocket screws, dowels provide positive alignment of parts. Pocket screws will also result in both sides of the joint look the same, without exposed screws.

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