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I'm pretty good with a butter knife, but don't really get what this
brain surgery thing is all about. I am teaching a live demo and seminar
and would appreciate it if you guys could tell me about these things.
ROFLMAO!!
Really, tech writing is not brain surgery. But, you have to have a clue.
Experience is also pretty valuable. I agree, you teach best what you
want to learn, but only when building on top of experience. Let's say
you've used XYZ tool to do your job for 5 years and are giving a seminar
on it. Maybe you need to learn those aspects of the tool you don't use
day-in and day-out, to cover your bases. This is the kind of learning
that by learning about these extended features, and then teaching the
class, your knowledge of your subject will grow constructively. I
disagree that, if you have zero understanding and zero experience, then
you can teach best what you learn.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Jensen [mailto:brad -at- elstore -dot- com]
You teach best what you most need to learn. When the teacher is
ready, the students appear.
Let's see, we go to church to listen to a person instruct us in
spiritual things, that very frankly,
they don't completely understand themselves.
Then we go to seminars on stock market strategies and --- ditto.
Then we go to therpists --- ditto.
Then we go to knowledge management consultants and --- ditto.
It does seem that a three-hype seminar is a little bit too much.
Or maybe they could pile it on, add VOIP, wireless internet,
and lunar exploration.
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