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I cant stop teaching!

Posted: 06 Mar 2017 12:55 PM PST
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On Saturday, January 21, I taughtÂ*the latest One-Day Tech class. 37 out of
40 students passed. Ive pretty much got the one-day Tech class thing down
to a science now. The next class will be on Saturday, May 6, 2017. Click
here for more details.

Last Saturday, I taught the last session of my 2017 General class. It was
fun to teach, especially since most of the students stuck with me most of
the way, but Im glad its over, too. Now, I can do something else on
Saturday mornings.
I really love teaching!

The students in this class were quite a bit different from the students in
the previous class. Overall, they seemed to be a lot more serious about
getting their General Class licenses, for one thing.

Perhaps one reason it seemed this way was that the venue was nicer. The
last time I taught this class, in 2015, the space we were using wasnt
really a classroom. Instead, it was just a corner of a bigger lab space.Â*I
think theres something to be said about having a space dedicated to the
class. Thanks All Hands Active (AHA!) for letting us use your space.
Teaching Arduino

I have also been leading electronics workshops at the Ann Arbor District
Library. They have a neat makerspace there called the Secret Lab. The last
Arduino workshop I led there was purportedly to teach them how to control
relays with an Arduino, but since many people showed up with no Arduino
experience at all, we also did some basic things like blinking an LED.

Id really like to teach more of these classes. So, Ive started talking to
the AHA folks to see how we might do this there. Im going to be talking to
them about not only teaching Arduino classes, but also basic electronics
classes, or maybe basic electronics classes using the Arduino. Â*(Hmmmmm. Im
going to have to Google that to see if anyones written a book like that
already.)
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Theres been a rising interest in CW here locally, and as a result, a couple
of people have asked me to teach a CW class. Up to this point, Id always
advise those who were interested in learning the code to get the G4FON CW
Trainer,Â*the K7QO Code Course, or one of the many apps for iPhones or
Android tablets or phones, but I can understand the desire to learn in a
classroom setting.

For one thing, some people dont like to learn on their own. If there are
questions, or they have difficulty, they like to be able to ask questions
and get knowledgeable answers. Theres also a social aspect. Its more fun to
learn with Â*other people.

Being a member of the CWOps, Im hoping to be able to get my hands on and
use the materials from Level 1 of the CW Academy. This is a proven program
thats helped hundred of hams learn and get better at Morse Code. Im keeping
my options open, though. If any you know of a good program for teaching
Morse Code, please enter a comment below.

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