"How to help someone use a computer.", a guide from 1996 that is also relevant to how we teach new people about the Fediverse

https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/how-to-help.html

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17589513

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ItsAFake@lemmus.org · 30 pts · 2y

That's not how you help someone use a computer!

Where's the "pauses to slowly exhale out your nose to calm yourself"? where's the " move the mouse to the icon in the centre, the centre of the screen, the cen.. that's not the centre that's the left side... I know it's in the middle tho... THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN.. THERE! THAT ONE *taps screen erratically*"?

pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I never realized the importance of squatting.

yum@lemmy.eco.br · 3 pts · 2y

looks at you, then at the screen, then back at you Are you following my movements, sir?

xorollo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

There is a lot of useful advice in here about teaching anything at all. Coaches use these strategies a lot too.