cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17589513
"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
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/how-to-help.html
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17589513
4 Comments
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
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.