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October 25, 2005

An Ogre's Life - Latest Happenings

A week ago, I had the opportunity to do some more training. Being a non-college edumakated ogre, I can't get a job at the local Community College teaching students. I did a short stint there as a continuing education instructor, but all the students who signed up as interested didn't show up for the actual class, so the class never "made." No big deal to me, in the end, as more regular work took over the time I gave to that job. As a mere high-school grajeeate, I am considered good enough to instruct the instructors. Go figure. With that in mind, I took a day off work and taught a class to a room full of college instructors on how to improve their results with the Google search engine. That's right, a whole class on how to use Google. I taught for an hour, and had hardly enough time to cover the high points. The class had fun, learned a lot, and gave me high reviews, so I'd call it a success. I even gained a client for my consulting business out of it.

Should anyone wish to hire me to teach such a class for your institution or business, I am available. I'm also quite good at it. Teaching people about computers is a major part of what I do. In helping people with PC problems, one must teach the customer how to avoid such problems in the future. I should note, based on the experiences from the classes I have taught in the past, that a few details make for a better class. First, I require at least an Internet connected PC with a digital projection system. The Internet connection should be high-speed. For this last class, I was on a dial-up connection, and it made for a much slower progression. Secondly, the ideal class time should be around two hours. One hour allows me to cram a lot of information in, but without as much interaction as I would like to cover the topic in enough detail. As for whether the students have access to PCs to be able to practice what I teach, I can take it or leave it. Either way works fine. For more information, look for the email link in the left column on the main page.

In Amateur Radio news, I've gained a couple new labels to add to my name. The first is that I am now a certified Volunteer Examiner. This means I am qualified to take part in examination teams. Examination teams run the exam sessions in which new hams take the test for their first license, and existing hams test for upgrades. This is going to be important in my locality, as we are trying to build our own exam team for our own regular testing sessions. Our local team will be affliliated with the Lee County ARES organization. I have been named as an Assistant Emergency Coordinator for Lee County ARES. This means I am now tasked with certain administrative tasks within the group. It sounds more important than it is, but that's fine as one of my tasks is to be the public speaker for the group to outside organizations.

In addition to my regular job, I'm also seeing some pickup in my personal consulting business. It's still a very part-time effort, but growth is good.

Yes indeed, growth is very good.

Posted by Lockjaw at October 25, 2005 10:10 AM

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