EDUC 6000 - Week 12

This morning I spent three hours in a training session conducted by Sonny.  This was a webcast that included staff from the Nashville, Murfreesboro, Knoxville, Johnson City, Chattanooga, and Memphis offices.  The training was intended to show staff how to use their new multimedia equipment.  The equipment included a overhead projector screen, overhead projector, digital recorder, camcorder, and a DVD player.  I was able to help Sonny by reading instructions to him as he demonstrated the equipment and finding specific instructions within the powerpoint presentations as he needed them.  Everything went fairly smoothly until we got to the camcorder presentation.  Webcast training was not ideal for this due to the small size of the equipment.  It was difficult to demonstrate how to operate the camcorder as the people viewing via the web couldn't really see what he was doing.  I could see how this type of training would be beneficial for reaching a large group of people, but it was obvious that it was not a suitable method of training for some topics.  Since this was the first webcast training that I'd ever been to, I still found it interesting.