[wellylug] community education

[William Hamilton]

Jamie Baddeley wrote:

> someone asked me today why people don't do openoffice courses at
> continuing education places like wellington high etc. You know,
> introduction to excel, introduction to OOcalc etc.
> 
> I didn't know why.
> 
> Are there any teachers out there who could do this sort of thing?
> 
> doesn't need to be super amazing - just an introduction.
> 
> Anyway. It seemed like a reasonable question that I didn't have an
> answer for.
> 
> Do you guys/gals/etc?
> 
> jamie
> 
> 


Another way to think about this is, instead of focusing on OOo training 
there could be more general sessions like "How to use a wordprocessor", 
by using OOo.

I used to do a lot of corporate training in the past.  I found that as 
much as I was teaching how to use Wordperfect Loyus 12, MS Office, 
Pegasus Mail etc I also tried to instill some thought as to formatting 
of documents etc.  The use of styles, not just CTRL-B to bold things was 
a biggee.  I found once people got a grasp on "good" (imho) techniques 
the shift to different apps was a lot easier.

http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/openoffice/docs/Chapters/Styles.pdf 
<- good doco


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