On 18/01/10 16:06, Bruno Girin wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:03 +0000, Matthew Daubney wrote: > >> On 17/01/10 04:08, Bruno Girin wrote: >> > [snip] > > >>> In terms of material, I agree that there's no point in having a slide >>> deck as trainees will promptly forget the content. Furthermore it >>> requires a projector, which is more equipment to get hold of. On the >>> other hand, it is essential to give comprehensive course material, >>> including exercises, that they can take home and refer to at their >>> leisure. This can take the form of a CD, the URL of a file to download, >>> etc. One thing to consider as well is a printout of the core course >>> material so that they can follow during the course and take notes. >>> >>> >>> >> 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. >> > I would add to that some training notes, exercises, answers, etc. in the > form of a text or PDF file. Once people have had any sort of training, > they will want to put it into practice but may not remember everything > that was said so would want to refer back to some material. A screencast > is good but is not always the most practical form when you want to > quickly search for a particular aspect of the session and you can't > copy / paste from a screencast. This material could also include things > like code samples or command line history. > > [snip] > > >> >> >>> True but it doesn't have to be huge on day 1. We can test drive the >>> concept with small sessions in a coffee shop between interested people >>> bringing their own laptops. >>> >>> Bruno Girin >>> >>> >> 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. >> > Beginners are not the easiest people to teach to. I would suggest > starting with some moderately advanced topics like "how to package an > app for Ubuntu". I was hoping to avoid this if possible. There is a _lot_ of stuff on these already, and people who want to learn this know where to look and are generally happy with whats there. What I wanted to tackle was those people who are uncomfortable with IRC and following web tutorials and it's ilk. These people (I believe) will be the really basic beginners. I was hoping to tackle a little bit of converting people through education type stuff by running these events as well, but thats a secondary aim.
I know it's more difficult, but I honestly believe this is the more worthwhile path to follow. Please feel free to argue at me the other way though :) The more views the better as far as I'm concerned. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
