2. Did you teach the students basic computer skills? And if so, how did you do it?
There was some of that. For instance,
when it came to the Web page construction, I might have sat down
with a group of the students, maybe two or three, in the morning
and said, "Okay, this is how you put your picture on your page,
how you make a graphic show up." And I would demonstrate it to them
and they would each do it so that I knew the three of them knew
how to do it. It was their job to make sure the other 32 students
in the class were able to get their graphic on their page. The rule
is that while they were teaching it they had to sit on their hands,
so they had to instruct the other students. What is nice about that
is then those three students are your graphics experts until the
end of the year because they have taught 33 other people how to
do it, and they will never forget it, and students know not to come
to me if they have a question about putting graphics on their pages;
they go to those students. So it ends up being something I might
spend 10 or 20 minutes at the very beginning of the day doing, and
the rest of the day the students are empowered to deal with that
computer skills training.
