Training Troubles

Corey G. and I were to teach an Excel class at Bennett Martin Public Library yesterday. Unfortunately one of the supervisors took the projector with her to the fall conference of the Nebraska Library Association. We didn't discover this until we began to set up for the class. Kinda makes it difficult to teach a group how to work a computer program when the class can’t see what the instructors are talking about. I tell people we ended up using finger puppets to demonstrate.

Actually, there were only three students so Corey and I alternated teaching at a computer while they were gathered around behind us to view the screen. Not too much can be done that way so once we covered the basics the class evolved into just answering basic computing questions. Topics ranged from how to find a document, what's a jump drive and how to use it, how to scan a document, and how to print. I think overall the students got a lot out of class, even if it wasn't the one in which they'd enrolled.