Knowledge about solar hot water production was what they initially discussed in relation to the topic of the workshop.
The topic of the workshop here in East Sri Lanka is "Every child counts".
It is true that the topic of the workshop I attended was not how to incorporate active-learning strategies into classroom practice.
The topic of the workshop is "children' rights" and there could not be a better time for all this, taking into account that this month, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) turns 20 years old.
The teenagers are very interested in the technical aspects of the film-making training, but they are also very tuned in when it comes to the topic of the workshop.
We have worked with 15 teenagers from Ukraine, many of them HIV-positive, and looked at the topic of the workshop - "Living with HIV/AIDS" - from several different angles.
The topic of the workshop will be "CRC - the Child Rights Convention turns 20" and the 20 participating children/teenagers will produce videos on children's rights from their perspective.
A simple idea, but remember, it comes from a 12 year-old boy! Gor explains how the idea was born: "The topic of the workshop is Children in the 21st century.
It can be argued that the topic of the workshop, climate change and health, remains at the stage of scientific fact finding and thus might be more open for interaction.
Objectives included enhancing communications between researchers in indoor chemistry and health professionals, as well as defining a list of priority research needs related to the topic of the workshop.
The topic of this hands-on video workshop is health issues and the task is to produce 20 films over the course of the next five days, all about health and all from the children's very personal perspectives.
