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My worst IT training days #1: Internet training day (Updated)

September 4, 2021

Here’s the first article in a series about my worst training days — the ones in which I was the trainer I mean! This was first published in 2018, but is still highly relevant.

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In Professional development Tags worst IT training, internet training
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Photo by Štefan Štefančík on Unsplash

My worst IT training days #1: Internet training day

August 6, 2018

Here’s the first article in a new series about my worst training days — the ones in which I was the trainer I mean!

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In Professional development, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags worst IT training, internet training
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Learning together. Photo from www.pexels.com CC0

My best and worst IT lessons #3: Internet training

January 11, 2016

"An incomprehensible error message scared the living daylights out of the teachers on the training course, all of whom thought it was their fault."

What I learnt about running a succesful course for teachers.

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In Best and worst IT lessons Tags internet training, training session
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