[DM-MUG] Presentations at Meetings

[Jon Engelhardt]

Good Morning,

I just finished a 3 year commitment as a district mentoring chair for  
an organization I was involved with for 32 years, it was aimed to  
help new teachers and was actually quite successful, which leads me  
to another idea.  What about having one of the presenters take newbie  
members for 45 minutes while another presenter takes the experienced  
users for 45 minutes and then bring back everyone together for a  
short general meeting.  Logistics could be the problem, but it's  
something to think about.  I would also love to see Holly take a  
session or three and present her techniques about iMovie, anyone that  
can hold the interests of middle schoolers for more than 10 minutes  
should be be able to handle a Mac group with one eye closed!

Jon
On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:26 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

>> Good Morning,
>>
>>       I am a newer switcher to the Mac - welcome and congrats!
>
> I attended last night and there is a plan in place to put together  
> meeting programs etc., so if you have areas in which you, as a new  
> Mac user, need help or want to get more information, I think you  
> should post here or contact Matt Wheeler or Bryan Baker, so they  
> can organize some presentations.
>
> It is summertime and in all groups, meeting attendance falls off,  
> but I think the plan for programs looks good = there's almost too  
> much information!  I suggested last night that we not only have a  
> presentation on novice/switcher topics but also one for experts and  
> techies...the problem in mixed groups such as this [and another I'm  
> in] is that if you pitch the programs to the knowledgeable, you  
> make them meaningless to new folks, and if you keep it simple for  
> new folks, you make it useless for those who are experts.  A mix is  
> good.
>
> It would be good for you to suggest some topics of interest to you  
> so those who might be more used to the Mac world can know what  
> 'new' information is helpful....and we can always use a refresher  
> course!
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