There is nothing like teaching something to make you expert on it ;) That's one reason why professionals should always teach. It's essential for the students and the teacher.
Ruben On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:51 -0500, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > With considerable trepidation, yesterday evening I accepted the "job" of > helping to teach a spring semester course, HSCI 740, at George Mason > University in Fairfax, Virginia. > > Sessions will run for 3 hours beginning at 4:30 on Friday afternoon. About > 15 > students are expected and about 18 hours of the course will be pure VistA. > We will begin hashing out the details of the course next week, but I do know > that remote sessions with interaction with the class is a possibility. There > is no money for plane fares, so providing remote experts is the best I can do > except for the sessions where I can recruit local experts. I have asked that > my salary be make into an expense account to use to support the course in > order to pay for some things, but $1700 won't go far. > > As those of you who know me are well aware, I do not have the expertise to do > this myself. I have taken it on essentially to manage it, to pull together > the experts and team teach it with them, i.e., you teach and I will provide > the local support. I am counting on any of you I ask to be guest instructors > to come through to make this a success. > > This is supposed to be very hands on. The purely didactic portion of the > course will be handled by someone else. I will be trying to show the parts > of VistA that support the points made in the lecture. The students will be > installing and configuring VistA and learning to use it. If Farrokh Alemi, > the professor in charge of the course, gets his way, this course will be > part of a full masters program, the description of which is attached (in both > OpenOffice and Word format). He expects VistA instruction to continue > throughout the whole program. > > The students will be mainly from health care fields, not IT, so we have to > aim > this at newbies. > > I think this is very good for VistA outside of the VA. Let's hope we can > inject a little of our fire into the belly of these students. We need more > young people to join our community. > > Please be prepared for a telephone call and to say, "YES!" Alternatively, > you > can call me and let me know how you might contribute and I will try to figure > out how to fit it all together. ;-) > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
