Re: can you recommend OS X DVD training?
Re: can you recommend OS X DVD training?
- Subject: Re: can you recommend OS X DVD training?
- From: "John D. Barnes" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:36:07 -0500
Many of these products are totally useless to anyone who is not
already a well-trained Macintosh user. The "Tacky Shirts" one does the
least good IMHO because it gets too mixed up with the personalities,
with a lot of schmoozing about the coolness of things. Almost all of
the products are created by geeks who fail to recognize that the jargon
is totally strange to new users. Anyone who can understand what is
being said on the products that I have seen is already resourceful
enough to learn what they need to learn by the simple expedient of
looking under every rock in the interface to see what lies there.
The most common failing of the rank and file users who seek help from
our user group and its SIGs is a failure to reach out and explore the
meaning of the interface elements in the applications they are trying
to use. They want to use the applications without really learning their
capabilities. Now I will concede that these people are a fairly small
part of the Macintosh user universe, but I think that they are an
important element in our User group memberships. Macophiles who are
resourceful enough to learn on their own do not need MUGs and stay away
in droves, while those who are full of unanswered questions get
referred to us.
If formal learning tools employing DVD technology are to be relevant to
us, therefore, they must abjure jargon and impress upon the viewer the
need to recognize interface elements and fit them into a an underlying
set of principles. Teaching needs to be Socratic rather than rote
because the student will be faced with new questions as soon as they
leave our tutoring sessions. We need to teach them how to catch fish
rather than to feed them precooked filets.
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