Re: SIG Questions
Re: SIG Questions
- Subject: Re: SIG Questions
- From: Paul Richards <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:29:12 -0400
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 02:10 PM, W. Michael Henigan wrote:
I have seen SIGs that were some of the above, and only a few seem
really
successful. I just want to offer something interesting to the people
who
come out to this SIG and not look like I don9t know what I am doing
(which
there is a little truth to that right now!)
First, why _not_ look like you don't know what you are doing in Digital
Photography at least to some degree? Aren't you involved in the SIG to
learn something from others too? If all you are doing is pouring
knowledge you've picked up into a vacuous audience, how long will it be
before you burn out?
We have three SIGs that really correspond to general experience levels
rather than to a specific area such as photography. We literally refer
to them as Beginners, Intermediates and Advanced.
The two lower levels are run by their leaders pretty much as instructor
and class, although some feedback is encouraged.
Obviously the Beginners need the most guidance. Occasionally the
Beginners topic is selected in advance. More often it starts with a
question posed by someone who has a problem. We are fortunate to have a
retired professor leading this group. Since he is already accustomed to
teaching and lecturing, he can turn such a question or questions into
an off the cuff lesson for the hour.
The Intermediate group is led by two very active individuals. They
usually select a general topic for the evening. One or the other or
both will research and prepare all or part of what they plan to cover.
They use a lot of Keynote presentations, live demonstrations, etc.
Since there are two of them, I think they are able to play off each
other to increase the energy of their presentations as well as sharing
the workload.
The third, Advanced, group is run as a true discussion group with the
leader acting only as facilitator. There is almost never a topic picked
in advance, although sometimes the facilitator tosses a few comments
out to get things rolling. Questions of the type "How do I do such and
such?" are frowned upon. Instead they are more like "This is how I do
such and such. What do you do differently?"
Paul Richards
Syracuse Macintosh Users Group
Syracuse, NY, USA
http://www.iSMUG.com
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