What would you like to learn about in online training sessions?
I've just discovered (belatedly) GoToMeeting.com and other applications like it, and I'm pretty excited. GoToMeeting.com allows you to see my screen and call in so you can hear me. From what I can tell, it also lets me give up screen control to students and lets me see what's on your screen.
It looks like a great, simple, convenient way for me to do online instructor-led training.
It only runs on Windows, but I hope that Linux users will compromise and be able to use a Windows computer for training.
Soon, I plan to use GoToMeeting.com to give online training, as well as occasional free seminars. I'll need to do some thinking and see how initial classes go, but it looks like I could do any of the following:
- periodic free seminars
- training at a reasonable price for any individuals who want to sign up, with a minimum number of students for a class to run
- training for an organization: just like my normal onsite training, but without travel expenses
- Short one-on-one tutoring or document trouble-shooting sessions.
The training would probably be no more than 2 hours at a time, though I could chain several together over a period of days or weeks to teach larger topics.
But the key question is: what topics do you want? Basics, specific tricks, configuration, styles and templates, databases, calc printing, creating org charts, converting problem documents -- ?? I'll take lots and lots of suggestions!
Also, when would you want training? During work hours, evenings, weekends?
Let me know!
Thanks,
Solveig
