Taking a Laptop Shopping

While looking at different blogs I found a very interesting article. It was interesting to me because of the learning outcomes at the end of the article. They can be applied to almost ANYTHING! The learning outcomes were

1. Test, test and always test before going live with a group. (The group arrived 45 mins early, so I did not have time to test, and Lorraine’s photos did now display properly but ended up looking like a jigsaw puzzle, which could have been due to our connection)
2. Make use of teachable moments, wherever possible. (eg Endang and her laptop)
3. Ask my twitter colleagues, at the beginning to get them to say hello, where they are from and what they see as benefits of twitter”. I asked at the end and of course, the long list that replied was not noted as it takes a while for people on twitter to respond.
4. Know the software before you demonstrate. I have not used MS Communicator for some time, the new format is quite different and we had issues with the server.

Anyone who has run into any of these problems knows how troubling they can be. We hear these things all the time, but until we run into them ourselves we forget about them. They are always nice to hear again and again so we think about them.