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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 12:45:14 PST
From: alipow@library.Berkeley.EDU (Anne Lipow)

From Genny Engle's response, I must have given the impression that I was
arguing for day-long sessions.  Though I do believe they have their place
(training given in hard-to-get-to places by centralized organizations for a
consortium of institutions that couldn't manage such training on their own,
for example), for in-house programmatic (i.e., not one-shot) training, I
definitely prefer the 2-3 hr. show-and-tell overview (as I described in an
earlier response) and a 3-hr. hands-on that goes into some depth about each
of the internet services, and most often spending most of that 3 hrs on
telnet activities.  Beyond that, one should have a staff person scheduled in
a drop-in lab to help individuals with their particular questions, problems,
and more specialized learning.  And that's not to say it's never approriate
to give a 3-hr. in-depth one-issue session.  That would be just what you'd
want to give to, say, a specific group of people who've asked for it.  In
that situation I'd never say no, but would still use it as an opportunity to
squeeze in glimpses of things they didn't ask for.

--Anne Lipow