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Index of Subjects Mark, just thought I'd add... Your ideas below are right on. But remember that anyone struggling with something abstract like html and shtml is not going to get very much out of abstract discussions. Like with abstract lectures, the result may even be negative, actually resulting in less performance because wrong concepts are being mistakenly learned. So if you have a meeting, make sure there is a computer there. Quickly show the learner(s) what you are talking about, and how easy it is to deal with. Andrew at the office is a whiz at this. He can show someone clearly in a minute or two on his computer what might take 30 minutes or more of discussion to reach the same level of understanding. Even better for a meeting, make the learner(s) perform on the computer while someone expert talks them through. Everyone else present will learn more because the material will be introduced at a learner's pace, rather than at a presenter's idea of the pace needed to cover the material in a given time. Our on-line IP Training worked because it was designed to force people to perform, so they could see for themselves what information they needed and must go find. When they moved beyond IP Training, they knew how to 'go find' whenever they encountered a new kind of problem. I sometimes find that those in need of training also lack fundamental skills. The Editor problem may be more one of needing to learn document editing techniques like dragging chunks of code around, cutting and pasting, searching and replacing using a text editor. Other ideas are to simply get one of the already skilled editors to sit down together at a computer, and talk the learner through the techniques needed, or even to get one of the expert editors to do the difficult technical conversion of that learner's work area. Bob Adams IP Training 464-9258 Mark Rushton wrote: > I think the problem is not so much one of the CCN file system, > installs, etc., as it is just being able to deal with HTML design and > redesign. > > I completely agree with you re: the classroom vs > learning-at-your-own-pace method that you used. I do feel, though, > that it might be nice for an informal gathering at an Editorial > Collective meeting to discuss some HTML issues that editors may need > to have answered in a more interactive way than via email. > Then again, this may all be rendered moot by the mutual support we > could provide one another in an Editors meeting once in awhile ;-)
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