The issue that bothered me in your letter, Leigh, was: "he never ran through a totally new hardware and software system before conducting a 40-person workshop abroad." It takes significant resources just to organize a workshop of that sort, counting time of everybody involved, travel, space and so on. With 20/20 hindsight, it would seem kinda important to give yourself "more" (to be determined how much, exactly) time to learn hardware and software people will be using, before running a workshop of that scope. I stepped into similar traps before, so by no means do I want to sound "righteous" about it. Still, this is something that bothered me in your letter: at least part of your frustration was self-inflicted through that planning issue. If you looked at the system these people will actually be using, ahead of time, maybe a few weeks earlier, you would have time to have some of your questions answered. It may not have been a possibility, though...
Thinking way back to the hard time I had with figuring out the difference between the web address line and the web search line, MariaD naturalmath.com On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Leigh Blackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks for the pointers Jim. > > Actually, I never did work it out... nor did 40 others! > > I'm fending off attacks on my blog... I knew I'd hit a nerve with my post. > I can see how many people will dismiss my post as "couldn't get past my own > preferences", but that ignores the experience of the 40 others I spoke for, > 10 of whom had never used a computer before. I watched a few people look at > my Asus and could see their intuition working on it better than on the > OLPCs. > > Leo, you got the text in this email thread right? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
