Do You Know How Your Fingers Fly?
Posted on January 18th, 2010 by Cynthia D'Amour
Really?
My mom recently got a new computer.
- A laptop.
- Her first.
- I’m the lead trainer.
I started with a little tour.
- Put her in front of the computer.
- Told her what to do.
- My laptop ran parallel for demonstrations.
We got tripped up immediately.
- Mom didn’t know how to use the touchpad.
- I told her to click or drop and drag.
- And nothing happened.
Mom is not dumb.
- (I figured that out after college.)
- She was a pioneer in teaching kids about computers in the late 1970s.
- Imagine 30 kids and a single computer with maybe 64K!
Mom has never used a touchpad before.
- I tried to break down how to use it.
- My fingers just fly.
- It’s like walking or breathing for me.
Long story shorter…
- We hooked up Mom’s computer with a mouse.
- She’s much more comfortable.
- And knows how to make it work.
It was fascinating how something so natural to me was so foreign to Mom.
Makes me think of chapter leaders…How do you make sure you train your volunteers (or find alternative ways) when asking them to do something not natural to them?
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