[documentation] Babies, Spoons, Food and Funny Faces

[gunnar]

Thanks a lot Themacgeek for volunteering to taking on this huge project.
;-)

We have onboard a few people with e-learning, tech training, wbt experience
(including my four years in e-learning/wbt/cbt in 1997-2001 - It's a little
rusty now but I did great things back then in Oracle and as an independent
consultant later).

I totally agree that Drupal needs training material to get those nasty newbies
off our developers backs ;-).

So how can this be approached? Maintaining visuals after an upgrade? That may
prove to be a lot of work.

Could a Drupal installation have a build in training system - based on drupal?
I think it could (ask Charlie Lowe and others).

What would be the first goal of such a project? A pilot lesson/course. The
real objective? training for end users/bloggers - admins? - training for
consultants - training for developers?

Themacgeek wrote:
> I have spent the better part of 4 days now reading through the Drupal
> documentation, participating in IRC chats, reading forums and hunting
> the web for Drupal related sites.  During this time I have met and
> spoke with some wonderful people, learned A LOT about Drupal and its
> capabilities, and discovered that communities can do more than any
> one person ever can.
> 
> After having experience all of these things, I am left with one thought:
> 
> A Training System Is Needed
> 
> As explained my earlier post today, I have been a software trainer
> for almost 10 years now.  And if there is one thing I have learned,
> it is that books and words (of which Drupal has a great resource of)
> will only help a certain percentage of people reach full competency
> with any software package or skill set.  Many, if not most, need
> interactive, step by step teaching to fully grasp an idea or develop
> a set of skills. Additionally, that teaching has to be tailored to
> the different types of individuals and their needs.
> 


Gunnar Langemark
gunnar at langemark.com