Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[B <beeline AT mindspring.com>]

I'm d.b.a "The Corner Guru," in which I teach/tutor *individuals* how to use 
Windows-style software (Adobe products included). (Two caveats: I am not 
targeting businesses and this is a fairly new venture.)

One of the services I'm offering is a sort of Tupperware(TM) Party for Your 
Mind, in which you and no more than four of your friends get together at a 
mutual house/office (in front of one of your own computers loaded with the 
target software), serve finger food, and allow me to lead you on a 2-hour 
exploration of the function you want to learn. Styles in Word, for example, 
or Intro to PowerPoint Presentations. Making Your Digital Pictures Ready for 
Web Display would work using either Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks, 
for another example.

I know a lot -- not everything, but a lot -- about a lot of different 
programs, and can figure out what I don't know fairly quickly. After all, we 
are talking about mostly Object Oriented Programming applications geared to 
run on Microsoft. (One of my offerings is "Intro to Windows Applications," 
aimed at the novice. You computer-literates may be surprised to find out, for 
example, that a lot of people don't even notice there's usually a "File" menu 
on the menu bar, and that it contains many of the same commands across 
applications.)

The Tupperware Party for Your Mind costs $100 for two hours, so five people 
(the host and four guests) can each chip in only $20 (or four folks chip in 
$25 each, three $33.33, etc., but capped at 5 students total) and come away 
with personalized tutoring on a specific element of an application, with 
friends to help you remember how you did whatever. I've done this a couple of 
times to good effect; it does help if the students are roughly equal in 
knowledge of the application, but that's not essential as long as the ones 
with less knowledge don't mind being a little lost and the ones with more 
knowledge don't mind helping the others outside of the mini-seminar. It works 
well as an evening or afternoon tea-time event, or as a long brown-bag lunch.

If you're interested, e-mail me at bholroyd at gmail dot com for more 
information, or to get my contact number. A partial list of the applications 
that I know is at my resume site, 
http://bholroyd.home.mindspring.com/Resume/index.html#Expertise .... (The 
list is out of date; I would not attempt to teach Unix, Solaris, or the Corel 
Web design products, and there are some apps I should add. However, it gives 
you a good idea of the extent of my knowledge. One of these days I'll get the 
Corner Guru site up and running and everything will be just perfect. 
<grin="wry">)

But if this doesn't float your boat, I've taken technical classes at Durham 
Tech and would recommend it.

~B

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Boucher <trekkie AT nomorestars.com>
Sent: Mar 31, 2005 5:53 PM
To: 
        "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/"; 
<internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>, 
        jim AT neuse.net
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Short Technical Classes


On Mar 28, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Jim Ray wrote:

> Wake Tech is the pick of the patch for me.  NCSU also has a continuing 
> education program with short technical classes.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim

Anyone seen any Photography type classes?  Studio lighting, digital 
photo editing with Photoshop, things like that?

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