Attendance – 21 (19 signed in; 21 completed Course Evaluation forms)
Participants who found the Practical Value of the training OUTSTANDING– 90%
Participants who found the Pace of the training OUTSTANDING – 67%
Participants who found the Overall Quality of Instructor OUTSTANDING – 90%
Participants who graded as OUTSTANDING that the instructor encouraged interest in the class – 100%
Monday, October 18, 2004
9:30 A.M. – I arrived the Resource Center, half an hour before start time to find the training room packed – all 20 participants were seated!
The next 6 ½ hours testified to a hunger for knowledge on the part of the participants
of which the state government, nay, the whole world should be aware. These participants
of wide-
We started out with introductions and job descriptions. Participants were also asked to say what they hoped to get out of this training. These were ALL checked off at the end of the training.
Among the focus areas of the training were:
A broader familiarity with Microsoft Windows XP Operating System with a particular attention on creating folders to organize participants’ works.
Formatting documents in MS Word
Various page orientations within the same document in MS Word
Using MS Word to create newsletter – inserting pictures and wrapping text around images
And the really big one – Mail Merge using MS Word
Mouseless operations – using keyboard shortcuts
MS Excel – Survey statistics showing percentages; pie chart
Wrapping up, Bolaji referenced Matthew 10:8 and urged participants to share the knowledge they’d freely acquired with others.
They were also encouraged to appreciate the “Use it or lose it” rule and to practice the new skills unceasingly.
One who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.
