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Revision as of 19:45, 15 October 2018

Training

Date
Monday, 15 October 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
Meetup Event
https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/253049800/
Location
The Parlour in First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo, Ontario Map
Event Announcement
Training/Announcement 2018-10-15


How complex is your Non-Profit organization? Does your newly hired staff need training on your policies and procedures? On your products and services? On your software and hardware? What happens when you change procedures, get new products, update your software? Does your existing staff need training? How do you supply the training? On the job? In the classroom? Online learning courses? And how do you manage the training administration? Keep track of results? Determine who is eligible for additional training?

At this months' round table discussion let's talk about our experiences in providing training to staff, or receiving training to be better SysAdmins. How can the Non-Profit SysAdmin help deliver and track training for our organizations' training requirements?

In a future session we'll discuss providing education to the clients of our organizations; this month let's focus on internal training.

--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré


Resources


Meeting Notes

Legacy codes
  • People inherit old legacy code, eg. spreadsheets
  • Nobody want to admit to knowing Excel for fear of having to fix someone's code
Techsoup Catalogue
  • Zoom
    • but that's just conferencing software, not training management software
  • Desire To Learn is no longer in the catalogue


  • We'll look at Desire To Learn and Moodle for the Education topic
    • Marc shows off his French Language Moodle installation http://frenchasasecondlanguage.org
    • Need to build your own content on Moodle
    • Danger of copyright infringement if you're not using your own content
    • Universities are more likely to contract out for content creation
    • Marc has used Hot Potato to create Moodle content
    • Hot Potato might be good for internal training; evaluation doesn't work in all educational settings


  • Looked at some Moodle testimonials for internal staff training


  • Discussed evaluation methods, and the efficacy of teachers
  • Also the ideology imposed on the curriculum by different governments


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