Just a quick comment about the style of training. There are four styles of learning, which someone will naturally fall into. These, typically are put onto a cross-hairs style graph.
Theory first Practical second Instructor Experimentation Lead. Driven Practical first Theory second. If you can ensure you cover off all four areas in your training, that'd be a good starting point. A few years back I ran training courses on Linux for helpdesk staff I was working with. Sadly, I've lost what I wrote at the time, but I'd be more than happy to help write some of the courseware. -- Jon ""The Nice Guy"" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified This message was sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any top posting and typos that may occur as a result. On 17 Jan 2010 12:03, "Matthew Daubney" <m...@daubers.co.uk> wrote: On 17/01/10 04:08, Bruno Girin wrote: > <snippy snip snip> > I've given technical training in the past and would be happy to help. > The first question is what... This sounds like the best idea at first. I would _love_ to eventually do a large event, but starting small would be much easier logistically. > The biggest hurdle will probably be to find locations and equipment to > run the trainings. This ... Yes, my initial thought in all this was that people will learn more by acrtually doing something than by sitting and having someone talk to them. Most of the basic stuff can be taught this way (I believe, but please feel free to correct me as I've never really trained people before) but more advanced stuff may require a certain amount of being lectured too. > In terms of material, I agree that there's no point in having a slide > deck as trainees will pro... At one point there was a proposal to make a DVD from the screencasts, if we could create a set of screencasts with some kind of leaflet to go with it giving some exercises we could achieve two aims at once. > Computers will be essential. However, it may be difficult to convince > whatever training centre ... Yes, this is true. If it comes to it I may be able to borrow a pile of SATA HDD's from work which we could swap out the training centres ones with. This would require more work though, so I'm not convinced of it's worth. USB Keys may be the way forward, and if we use Live ones than we can just reboot machines to get a fresh environment between classes. >> Would anybody be interested in attending such a thing? >> > Definitely! There are lots of t... Excellent! From the brief burst of discussion I'm quite taken aback at how much thought people have put into this! I'll attempt to distill most of this discussion into the wiki over the course of the day to make it easier to refer too. >> This could be quite a large undertaking, so please get involved if >> you're in the least bit int... Indeed. It may be best then to create a syllabus for absolute beginners, and then work upwards. I'll be quite happy to run a session at Oggcamp (for those who are planning to attend) to run some real life discussion on this. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubu...
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