The Power of Shiny
Sep. 25th, 2006 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bzarcherOne of the things that $Newboss approved was getting a Mac Mini, to use as a teaching tool. I'm the only guy here with certified Mac experience, and the others I'd trained on how to support it had left.
Worse, at the time I trained the others, we'd had the Marketing G5s that we were building that I could give them hands on with. Until a few days ago, the only Macs we had available were the ones we needed to support.
So, with her OK, we got the Mini in. I gave a couple of "training sessions" to a few interested parties, and now I have it set up on the far side of my desk, with a nice eyecatch screensaver and the keyboard sitting there invitingly.
Everyone in the area, even the people who "didn't really want to learn Mac", have come and played with it for at least 20 or 30 minutes each. I suspect that by the end of next month, they'll all know at least basic troubleshooting and how to navigate around in it, and a decent understanding of what they can do with it. (Especially since I may introduce a few "problems"...)
All hail the power of shiny as a teaching tool. :>
Worse, at the time I trained the others, we'd had the Marketing G5s that we were building that I could give them hands on with. Until a few days ago, the only Macs we had available were the ones we needed to support.
So, with her OK, we got the Mini in. I gave a couple of "training sessions" to a few interested parties, and now I have it set up on the far side of my desk, with a nice eyecatch screensaver and the keyboard sitting there invitingly.
Everyone in the area, even the people who "didn't really want to learn Mac", have come and played with it for at least 20 or 30 minutes each. I suspect that by the end of next month, they'll all know at least basic troubleshooting and how to navigate around in it, and a decent understanding of what they can do with it. (Especially since I may introduce a few "problems"...)
All hail the power of shiny as a teaching tool. :>
