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Teaching to VIPs and 12 days vs once a week

 
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Hi Rowe,

in the answer to another question of mine, you said that you taught to some "VIP" (my acronym for district officers, government people,...), the people that usually have power, and no time. Wow, imagine the possible consequences of teaching PC to Obama anyway, as I said VIPs don't have time, so IF you manage to motivate them to learn a bit more about PC, what would be the best way to do it? I exclude the non-stop 10-12 days, so tell us your secret, what did you do? Is their a way to teach enough stuff so they can design their sites, in less than 10 days?

And that brings me to the second question, about teaching in general: 12 days non-stop or once/twice a week/month? I like the first option because students live, eat, breathe and sleep PC. However you need a site, and this implies costs. The other option is much cheaper, free actually in my case, but the problem is often 1-2 students are missing every week, someone may leave the course after some time for personal reasons, another person may join at the end of the course... Probably there is no perfect answer, and doing something is in any case better than doing nothing

all the best

greg
 
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