Jocelyn wrote:

> Just asking if there is instructors on the list and asking how they
> delivering courses on what Presentation slides ?

As leading courseware providers we are frequently asked whether there are 
presentation slides to go with our manuals. (In fact the decision whether to 
purchase our manuals sometimes seems to hinge on the availability of slides 
rather than other criteria which to the naive observer might seem more 
important, like the arrangement of the content, the quality of the writing, or 
the presence and quality of exercises. It's a strange world.) Our position is 
that we would indeed like to offer slides but that there is still work to do 
on the manuals themselves. The slides will arrive eventually. When they do 
they will be in LaTeX and/or PDF.

Personally I don't see what all the brouhaha concerning slides is about. Back 
when I was doing SuSE training there were no official slides so we would roll 
our own. When SuSE started making official slides available we would look at 
those for a bit and then *definitely* roll our own. Not every instructor even 
uses pre-cooked slides and those who do usually have their own ideas about 
what should go on them and how, so they roll their own. Pre-cooked slides 
mostly appear to be a checklist item to make the purchasing managers of 
training companies happy when they won't otherwise buy your stuff. In fact, if 
you're an instructor, using the pre-cooked slides probably indicates that you 
haven't thought enough about the material and how to teach it.

Anselm

(This is my personal opinion and not that of Linup Front GmbH.)
-- 
Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & Netz-Schulungen
Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany
[email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de
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