Apple Training: NovaWorks

I was thoroughly impressed with the professionalism and training expertise I witnessed today. I'm taking the MacOS 10.4 Support Essentials course. The course is being offered by Apple through NovaWorks in New York City. It's a three-day session.

Our instructor is the very capable Shelley Weiner. She is the president of Business Rules, Inc. She's an Apple certified instructor. The course layout and content so far has been very good.

When I first walked in, I saw a projector turned to slide number one of a slide show. I was getting ready for a huge disappointment because I think slide shows are the crappiest way to teach. But I was really amazed with how Shelley bounced around and demonstrated the actual content instead of just reading the slides as many instructors end up doing.

The course comes with a book and a workbook as well. Several very good exercises are included. Although I am familiar with Macintosh OS X, I was not bored sitting in the class because I learned some really neat tips and tricks.

Since we have recently invested quite a bit of money in MacBook Pros, this training is really timely. It's giving me some good ideas on how to approach the setup on the new laptops.