Its all about Communication

I get so frustrated sometimes that folks who are supposedly "Teachers" seem to leave out critical points in the lesson in an attempt to make their presentations and Videos as "Slick" as possible.

I was watching one today and the lass doing it was virtually whispering all the way through forcing me to crank the volume up to the max on the speakers (Mistake #1) I am sure the training vid could have been re-edited with more gain on it before taking it to the masses eh!

Next she shot through her bullet points as if they were real bullets spitting the info out almost faster than I could follow it, never a good move when your trying to communicate.

But the peice de resistance had to be when she demo'd setting up something on a web site (which was the purpose of the Vid). She took me through the log on OK then got to the point where we were to paste in our pre prepared text and...
..at that late stage mentioned the site really wanted us to add in some Pictures to illustrate our subject matter, and she had a really great site where they could be found!

Well point one if we were supposed to add pics to our original document , why for gods sake not mention it when we were asked to prepare the text in the first place! But the crowning glory of this textbook example of what NOT to do was the "Free Photo" site which rather than being free allowed you to accumulate your pics then ask you to "register" to down load them Read, get spam for ever on that email addy you use! Well I have "disposable" emails for just that purpose but after filling out the tedious little form I found it had dumped all my selections that I had made in accordance with the "Training" ...... (Steams quietly in the corner)

When I started this post I was fresh from the battle and was going to wax eloquent on all the other shortcomings of the Video lesson, but happily real life intervened and I had to get away from the PC. Suffice to say I shall learn the lesson of today's exercise.

Communicate the whole task clearly and in order first, without skipping stages just because there second nature to you!

As I have started a couple of web projects (with another two in formation stage) this is actually quite a good thing to learn. Hopefully I can do better in communicating on my current subject to my readers/audience as |I review car accessories - specifically Backing up camera systems for the site I started work on a few days ago.