Talk:Wikimedia skill swap

This is what I'm trying to do with Trainer training (a pretty bare page as I've not written up the idea much yet). "Skill swap" is a good public name for it. The idea is that the session has a theme, such as the ones suggested by Tom on this page, and there is a facilitator (I hate that word, but it correctly describes the role) who is reasonably confident with that topic. The attendees break up into small groups, focus on one aspect of the issue, research it in various ways, and present back to the whole group what they have learned. The facilitator doesn't spend all their time presenting but just chairs the discussion and stops people going down dead ends. In this way, everybody has an experience of teaching others, learning from others, being useful. The wiki twist is that participants actually get to do the thing they are learning about. At the end, the facilitator signs off that the participants have studied that topic. I may adapt some of Tom's content for the trainer training page. MartinPoulter 14:11, 29 January 2012 (UTC)