"How to help someone use a computer.", a guide from 1996 that is also relevant to how we teach new people about the Fediverse

xorollo , 3 months ago

There is a lot of useful advice in here about teaching anything at all. Coaches use these strategies a lot too.

pruwybn , 3 months ago

I never realized the importance of squatting.

yum , 3 months ago

looks at you, then at the screen, then back at you Are you following my movements, sir?

ItsAFake , 3 months ago

That’s not how you help someone use a computer!

Where’s the “pauses to slowly exhale out your nose to calm yourself”? where’s the " move the mouse to the icon in the centre, the centre of the screen, the cen… that’s not the centre that’s the left side… I know it’s in the middle tho… THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN… THERE! THAT ONE taps screen erratically"?