7.20.2005

for hire: blogging teacher

I got a catalog for the San Francisco State College of Extended Learning in the mail today. I was flipping through it for general interest courses that I might be able to afford when low and behold I come across a course titled "Writing and Blogging. "

Instruction will include the skill of uploading text and images to the site, as
well as adding links to the blog and websites of others. Class members will
maintain a blog journal. Oct 28 - Nov 18, 2-4pm $75

Whoa Nelly, that is 4 weeks of 2 hour instruction. 8 hours! And $75! I really don't understand how it could take so long to teach someone how to blog unless you are also teaching stuff like how to turn on your computer, introduction to Windows, and how to use a web browser. What a scam. If anyone out there is reading this (knows how to use Windows and a browser) and would like to learn this stuff in about 1 hour, I'll only charge ya $30!

5 comments:

egan said...

Maybe you should do that very thing Van.

Have you seen the Video Professor guy that wants to show you how to use Windows 95, Windows ME, Windows XP, etc. Who buys that stuff?

Oliver said...

have you seen the guy that sells pc-cd's that will instruct you on how to use a computer - from turning it on to word processing. if you don't know how to turn it on, how do you use the cd?

Ben said...

That's easy, Oliver. The information's all there on the CD; you just squint and read it from the underside.

Fumbling said...

you know what i always think about is if autorun is shut off, that video professor guy's CD would never start, and you wouldn't know how to explore for the .exe file. That would be ironic.

head dump said...

Anyone who hires a blogging instructor will probably need those 8 hours of instructions and more.