[FM Discuss] Creating some Exercise books for CiviCRM with booki

[adam]

hey,

someone also did this on booki.cc:
http://www.booki.cc/civicrm-user-training-exercises/_v/1.0/edit/

was that you? shall i delete it and you keep it all in fm (makes the 
remixing easier)?

also..dont forget if u want to you can now hide books (if there is 
client specific info etc)

adam


On 03/30/2011 03:44 PM, Michael McAndrew wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> We've been thinking for a while about some next steps we can take with 
> our CiviCRM and booki.  One of the things we've been thinking about is 
> more closely linking our training with the book.  Thought you might 
> like to know about our plans...
>
> At the moment we give away a complimentary copy of the book each time 
> we do a training (which is quite a cool thing to do).  We are now 
> looking at creating an exercise book to accompany the training.
>
> Our trainings are hands on with a laptop.  Up until now, we have used 
> our wiki for the training exercises.  Most of the exercises already 
> exist on the wiki.  This works OK, but...
>
>     * it means a lot of alt-tabbing and too many screens open for
>       people and they get a little confused
>     * it is hard to keep track of where you are on our wiki - it
>       really helps people during the training to be able to hold
>       something physical in there hands and say, 'this is where i am
>       in the training exercise'
>     * it helps to make a division between 'CiviCRM on the screen, and
>       training exercises on paper in front of me'
>     * people can make notes on the exercise book and it can be a
>       reference for afterwards (and I reckon psychologists would say
>       this helps people remember things better, well some (people and
>       some psychologists, anyway :)
>     * having something on paper looks more professional and much cooler :)
>
> I've created the book here: 
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/civicrm-user-and-admin-exercises/edit/  
> We'll be doing the transfer on Friday, and then look at making an 
> exercise book format after that.  I'll take some pictures of the final 
> product in use show them off here after the training, fingers crossed!
>
> Michael
>
>
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