... the IT man in LibraryLand
I had to run another Your Library @ Home class for the public yesterday but this time without Mr Prada who is off in Mapleland.
I had a couple of complete beginners in the class who had to be shown how to use the mouse. Even after they left I found that it would have been a great help to have a second person to roam the room helping people login to their accounts and deal with those little problems that continuously popup when the students don't follow your instructions to the letter.
Showing posts with label Training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Training. Show all posts
... The Day of Training
Finally the second best day of the year arrived today! The second training day! Free lunch, morning tea and post-training drinks. Timetabling issues reduced my LMS class to a speedy rush through the first few of the issues I had planned to cover. In one of the earlier sessions I was cruelly taunted with Svetlana's far-awayness when we were presented with her poster appearance for some reader's advising material produced by my previous library service. I miss that hyena laugh she was pictured midway through.
In other news this evening's episode of Californication has redeemed the show just when I was getting a little tired of it by featuring the Warren Zevon song "Don't Let Us Get Sick" not once but twice!!
In other news this evening's episode of Californication has redeemed the show just when I was getting a little tired of it by featuring the Warren Zevon song "Don't Let Us Get Sick" not once but twice!!
... The Rooms Full of Noobies
The last two days have seen me assisting the 2.0 champions helping staff to go through their 2.0 23 things training.
Lot's of account recovery and signing on to things and explaining to the noobies what the sites do.
Of course from high on my IT Man hill I had to have Mr Prada explain to me what several sites do and how to use them.
And as penance I have a bazillion blog update messages in my bloglines account that I have to sift through now.
(and I still haven't got onto image generators!)
Lot's of account recovery and signing on to things and explaining to the noobies what the sites do.
Of course from high on my IT Man hill I had to have Mr Prada explain to me what several sites do and how to use them.
And as penance I have a bazillion blog update messages in my bloglines account that I have to sift through now.
(and I still haven't got onto image generators!)
... Style Wars
This is an addendum to the training class from the previous post.
It is not all good having Mr Prada working on the classes with me - I'm being completely overshadowed on the style front every time we run a class together.
And I don't think there's any way I can ever compete. I'll have to make the most of Mr Prada's absence later in the year when I run the class on my own.
It is not all good having Mr Prada working on the classes with me - I'm being completely overshadowed on the style front every time we run a class together.
And I don't think there's any way I can ever compete. I'll have to make the most of Mr Prada's absence later in the year when I run the class on my own.
... the Days of Sacrifice, Training, and Renovation
Well what a week it's been.
The unsolvable Beaumaris problem ate Monday.
Tuesday was consumed with planning the training for the LMS upgrade and preparing the Brighton computers (which took most of the next two days as well!)
Thursday was a day that called for me to make many sacrifices in order to get all the Brighton computers ready: I skipped the free Potato lunch at Council HQ, then skipped my regular Soccer game and finally skipped my Thursday night gaming.
Supervisor S did a magnificent job of running the Brighton training on Friday morning and I just hung around, helped occasionally and made notes of the glitches that needed to be fixed.
Friday afternoon, and on into early evening, was devoted to preparing the Beaumaris computers.
As the weekend arrived I was able to relax by cleaning and then painting parts of my new place with Handy Dad. There was the highlight Saturday night of Rugrat Twin's drinks to celebrate the end of a job and the new beginning.
The unsolvable Beaumaris problem ate Monday.
Tuesday was consumed with planning the training for the LMS upgrade and preparing the Brighton computers (which took most of the next two days as well!)
Thursday was a day that called for me to make many sacrifices in order to get all the Brighton computers ready: I skipped the free Potato lunch at Council HQ, then skipped my regular Soccer game and finally skipped my Thursday night gaming.
Supervisor S did a magnificent job of running the Brighton training on Friday morning and I just hung around, helped occasionally and made notes of the glitches that needed to be fixed.
Friday afternoon, and on into early evening, was devoted to preparing the Beaumaris computers.
As the weekend arrived I was able to relax by cleaning and then painting parts of my new place with Handy Dad. There was the highlight Saturday night of Rugrat Twin's drinks to celebrate the end of a job and the new beginning.
... the Week of Free Lunches
What a long and busy week it's been.
I've spent most of it Training up on the new Library Management Software at our suppliers HQ in the city. Four days of catered lunches and far too many lollies from the bowls on each table! Supervisor S was with me all week and we had guest appearances from Mr Prada, Sonja Roster Queen, Miss Amanda, Genealogy Jane, chanlib, Vikki, Sister Serials, Ms Magpie, Devil's Advocate and a few others.
At the same time I was dealing with settlement on the current house and pre-settlement non-disclosure of upcoming costs on the new flat. It's going to be such a holiday when the property stuff is over and I can relax with the major system upgrade at work.
Thursday night's soccer was a wonderful flashback to my childhood career as the heavens opened up and we were lashed with rain for about half of the game.
The final day of training was topped of with a night of farewell drinks for Jemima from the IT Helpdesk. CC was there as was The Polster and another Canadian CC acquaintance with a J name, coincidentally drinking CC (Canadian Club). Many xx and cokes were consumed but I made it home fine and the ice in the drinks kept my hydration levels at a safe level.
In four days of Train Travel I managed to be affected by a Connex Train delay every day - the worst was 35 minutes sitting at one station on my way in to drinks last night.
I've spent most of it Training up on the new Library Management Software at our suppliers HQ in the city. Four days of catered lunches and far too many lollies from the bowls on each table! Supervisor S was with me all week and we had guest appearances from Mr Prada, Sonja Roster Queen, Miss Amanda, Genealogy Jane, chanlib, Vikki, Sister Serials, Ms Magpie, Devil's Advocate and a few others.
At the same time I was dealing with settlement on the current house and pre-settlement non-disclosure of upcoming costs on the new flat. It's going to be such a holiday when the property stuff is over and I can relax with the major system upgrade at work.
Thursday night's soccer was a wonderful flashback to my childhood career as the heavens opened up and we were lashed with rain for about half of the game.
The final day of training was topped of with a night of farewell drinks for Jemima from the IT Helpdesk. CC was there as was The Polster and another Canadian CC acquaintance with a J name, coincidentally drinking CC (Canadian Club). Many xx and cokes were consumed but I made it home fine and the ice in the drinks kept my hydration levels at a safe level.
In four days of Train Travel I managed to be affected by a Connex Train delay every day - the worst was 35 minutes sitting at one station on my way in to drinks last night.
... the Classroom of Doom
So yesterday I had to run a class for the public (well 6 of them anyway) in Your Library @ Home - covering all the library-related things you can do from home through our library website.
While I wasn't particularly under the weather after the post-training day free-drinks socialising of the evening before I was very glad to be sharing the class-taking responsibilities with Mr Prada. He has been a wonder in preparation and execution while I have been swamped with work in the weeks leading up to the class.
All in all though it went well also considering that train cancellation hijinks robbed us of all but two minutes of collaborative preparation time in the morning.
While I wasn't particularly under the weather after the post-training day free-drinks socialising of the evening before I was very glad to be sharing the class-taking responsibilities with Mr Prada. He has been a wonder in preparation and execution while I have been swamped with work in the weeks leading up to the class.
All in all though it went well also considering that train cancellation hijinks robbed us of all but two minutes of collaborative preparation time in the morning.
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