On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 02:15 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Peter Kupfer wrote: > > > >I've been using OOo Writer extensively, both at home and at work, for > > >about two years. I really don't want to teach MS-Word again! > > > > Have you considered teaching both. > > No no no. Teach them general word processor skills, but using OOo only. > Trying to > teach MS Word as well would increase the cost, and add a significant burden > on > both the instructor and the pupils.
I agree...and have taught both word processing and spreadsheet applications to college students. Some students can take what they have learned from one application and apply it to the another vendor's product, the others will need retraining no matter what. That's just the way people are. However just learning "business productivity" applications on one product is tough enough for newbies...keep it simple use OOo. > > There is a program that Ian L. is started/running called INGOTS and it > > seems, > > it some part, to emphasize the ability to use your skills on any software. > > INGOTs is a great idea. > > Last week Ian Lynch gave an IRC talk about INGOTs. You can see the IRC logs > and > the slides right here: > > http://native-lang.openoffice.org/conference/logs/20-Mar-2005-INGOT.html > > > > On the other hand, a different user didn't get a job because he had never > > used > > Excel before. > > But the solution is not to teach people Excel. The solution is to educate > employers and other people about the concept of general skills. This is one > place > where INGOTs can help. > Imagine if your kids came out with an additinal certificate that says they > have > certain computer skills. Then they show that to potential employers. That > would, > hopefully, be noticed. And it creates awareness of the concepts of > transferable > skills. Agreed... -- Regards, Rick Barnes www.nostabo.net ******************************************************************* PRIVILEGED - PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail or using any of the contact details noted herein. This e-mail sent via Evolution 2.0.4 running on a Linux 2.6.11 kernel.
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