{"id":420,"date":"2007-12-06T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2007\/12\/06\/cad-training-material-what-is-good\/"},"modified":"2007-12-30T23:57:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T07:57:06","slug":"cad-training-material-what-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2007\/12\/cad-training-material-what-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"CAD Training Material &#8211; What is Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to training material, I like to develop my own.  That way I can tailor it to my needs and the audience.  But this takes time, a lot of time.  You need to decide if it will be an outline for an instructor lead class or a handout that people will read on their own.<\/p>\n<p>An Outline has the purpose of keeping the class flow on track.  It is not really meant to be used apart from an instructor lead process.<\/p>\n<p>A handout to me is meant to be read without input and should contain more information.  It may even be read without any instructor involvement.<\/p>\n<p>An Outline should have some of the following principles in place as you write it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is not exhaustive.  It is assumed that the class will cover more than the handout.<\/li>\n<li>It is used to remind people of what they have learned.  They should be paying more attention to the teacher than the notes.<\/li>\n<li>It is to provide content flow from one subject to the next.  The instructor can use it to make transitions and to stay focused.  The flow of the class should mimic the outline.<\/li>\n<li>It is to have ample space for notes.  The outline should encourage note taking and leave room to allow it to happen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Handout is something is used in and beyond the classroom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make it easy to read.  A nice flow of words to the reader.<\/li>\n<li>Use a balance of words and screen shots<\/li>\n<li>Use a large amount of screen shots that are annotated with arrows and circles.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/screen-capture.asp\">Snag-It<\/a> is a great tool for this.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce any new concepts but not too much.  A good balance is to have a paragraph or so before the body of the instruction.<\/li>\n<li>Include step by step procedures that tell people why and not just what to do.  You should intersperse the reasons for each step when they are not obvious.  Like: &#8220;Select all entities (It is easier to grab them all and then remove some later)&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to training material, I like to develop my own. That way I can tailor it to my needs and the audience. But this takes time, a lot of time. You need to decide if it will be an outline for an instructor lead class or a handout that people will read on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}