Presenting Posterous skills

I returned to curious minds after work exerience to carry out a training course to some of the staff on how to use posterous. It was challenging but enjoyable at rhe same time. It's quite a lot harder than I first thought. Making sure that everyone is satisfied with what they're doing and succesfully acheiving each task that I give.

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This was my lesson plan:

Equipment needed:

  • Laptops x 4
  • Projector

Objectives:

  • Creating a theme
  • Uploading documents and images
  • How to add pages and order them

Steps:

  1. Intoduction and point of excersise
  2. Icebreaker hero/heroine Why is that?
  3. Get them to download hero/heroine images
  4. Posterous sign up
  5. Walk through of set up
  6. Ask them to write a short paragraph of hero/heroine and upload their images of them.
  7. Walk through of how to view a published page
  8. Show how to add more pages and how to order them.
  9. Ask for feedback: Was the excersise useful? Do you think you will use this in your work and how? How was I at presenting?
  10. Thank you and farewell

 

Feedback

Hello Connor, some feedback on your teaching session.

You did well for your first teaching session, by the end of the session, I was enthused about Posterous and wanted to carry on using it in the future. It was good that the ice breaker linked into learning about posturous. Writing about something I was interested in made me enthusiastic to write and use posterous. You had a calm and patient manner. You explained things succinctly. It would have helped you if you had run through the whole session before delivering it. There are always lots of things that can go wrong and running through it helps to highlight some of the potential difficulties. Keep eye contact and checking that everyone is clear about what they have to do otherwise they can get quickly lost and fall behind. Well done with a bit more preparation you could make a really good teacher!

- Linda Meagor, Programme Manager

 

Thank you for the Posterous training Connor – I found it really useful.I thought the way you used your ice breaker to get us into the topic of our website – arts heroes – was very clever. You were friendly and approachable – no question was too silly and you answered them all patiently and clearly.I thought you could have moved around a little bit more, checking where people were up to and making sure they weren’t stuck.  When you’re teaching something practical you can’t always stay at the front of the ‘class’.I definitely came away from the session feeling confident about using Posterous. Well done.

- Tina Taylor, Operations Managers

 

I found this to be a really useful session. I was amazed at how simple it could be to create a website and can already see how using posterous could help me with my work.  Connor was a confident teacher, speaking clearly and breaking the lesson down into manageable steps. He coped well with the different levels of ability within the group, was very patient and good at providing one to one support when issues arose. It might have been useful to see some examples of existing websites at the beginning so that we could get a sense of the types of site that we could create. There was a little bit on confusion when everyone was trying to log in to posterous which could have been avoided with a more thorough run through beforehand. I really liked that Connor asked us to think of our own arts hero or heroine to use as content for our mini-sites, as it provided a fun focus and put the group at ease. As a result of this session I am confident that I could use posterous to create a website, select a theme, add new pages, edit content and upload images and video. Thanks Connor!

 Hannah Baldwin, Arts Award Regional Coordinator

 

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