SQL Saturday #38
Busy morning. Got up at 5:00 a.m. to help set up at UNF. Registration was a bear. I volunteered at the registration desk this morning and it was insanely busy. But much better organized that it has been in past years. We had 500 registered and 50 more wait listed at least 3 days before the event, but not all the 500 showed up, which is disappointing.
The room was small and the audience large. I lost a few people in the first few minutes, but it happens. People come into a session, looking for one thing and then decide that it's not what they want after all. But for the most part, there weren't enough seats for the people sitting on my class and most of my comment cards were fairly high ranked.
This is the second time I've taught this class. The first time was last year in Orlando. I received a card that said I should include my examples in the presentation instead of writing them on the board (I wasn't nearly as well prepared the first time around), so I made the effort to do just that. And as I sit through Andy Warren's session on networking, I'm reading the comment cards again and find the exact same comment. "Include examples in the presentation".
Which is odd, because most of the stuff I wrote on the board this time was in direct response to questions asked of me by the audience and the main info was actually in the presentation. Hmm. Headscratcher this one is.
Still, most of the cards have me highly ranked, so I feel pretty good about my presentation. Especially as people keep coming up to me and verbally thanking me for the class.
So, even though the day is only half-way through, I'm feeling pretty good about it. Can't wait for Orlando, coming up in October. Going to submit an abstract for teaching an all day beginning T-SQL class and see if there's enough interest for that.
The room was small and the audience large. I lost a few people in the first few minutes, but it happens. People come into a session, looking for one thing and then decide that it's not what they want after all. But for the most part, there weren't enough seats for the people sitting on my class and most of my comment cards were fairly high ranked.
This is the second time I've taught this class. The first time was last year in Orlando. I received a card that said I should include my examples in the presentation instead of writing them on the board (I wasn't nearly as well prepared the first time around), so I made the effort to do just that. And as I sit through Andy Warren's session on networking, I'm reading the comment cards again and find the exact same comment. "Include examples in the presentation".
Which is odd, because most of the stuff I wrote on the board this time was in direct response to questions asked of me by the audience and the main info was actually in the presentation. Hmm. Headscratcher this one is.
Still, most of the cards have me highly ranked, so I feel pretty good about my presentation. Especially as people keep coming up to me and verbally thanking me for the class.
So, even though the day is only half-way through, I'm feeling pretty good about it. Can't wait for Orlando, coming up in October. Going to submit an abstract for teaching an all day beginning T-SQL class and see if there's enough interest for that.