Today I taught my first library-related computer class. I taught the class with the supervisor of the Main library, which was slightly intimidating. Thankfully, she's very approachable and kind. We had some difficulty working the projector, but thankfully one of the librarians showed us how. I've since forgotten how; it looked very complicated.
At any rate, this class was actually an introduction to the internet. My partner taught the first half, which covered the very basics, such as what is a server, what is a browser, etc. She's a consummate public speaker, and I suspect she's taught this class more than once. I hope my skills are comparable someday. After that I took over and taught the second half of the class, which covered email. I spoke about inboxes, spam, filters, web-based vs program-based, and all sorts of things. We did have a very curious man in the audience whose questions were slightly out of the scope of the class, but we did our best. We also had some trouble with the internet, (as we were on the public wireless,) but we managed to forge ahead.
I ended the class with no incidents. I think I did pretty well all things considered. I know I got ahead of myself a few times and started to talk about things that were on a subsequent slide, but I knew that was going to happen. My partner was happy with my performance as well, so I suppose that's all that matters!
I arrived at 1:30 and left at 3:45, totalling 2.25 hours.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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