With two trainers alternating sections, no one trainer has to speak for more than an hour. We use a projection device attached to the instructor's computer to project the computer monitor image onto a screen. This allows students to easily follow the instruction. Those students not as skilled or practiced in using the browser software can still keep up with the instruction by viewing the screen. By organizing the class to dovetail with our Web site content, we have made it very easy for both the trainers and students to become familiar with the course content.
Librarians can return to their units and immediately practice what they have learned.
Trainers can be chosen from any branch anywhere in the city and can learn their material right off of the Web site. Because the Internet is constantly changing, our Web site and our course material is always changing. As we add new links to our site, we begin to incorporate them in our teaching. Instructors are given a certain amount of latitude in the sites they choose to teach, as long as the sites represent a cross section of what is available in that part of the Web site. This is not the type of class that is prepared once and then pulled out and presented on demand.