[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Apr 11 13:13:57 CDT 2007


On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:53:57PM -0500, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> I'm more distressed about them teaching 'Word'.  Not a MS bias but
> observation that 'teaching office automation' usually involves
> memorizing 'how-to' run MS Office and not, say, the broad concepts
> behind the thing.

I don't know that it's EVER been about "broad concepts".  Today it's
Word and Excel and PowerPoint.  15 years ago it was Wordperfect,
Lotus 1-2-3, and DBase.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas



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