Sir Rook, Just get your suggestion in early to the Institute Committee (Gary Neie; Institute Director, Assistant Directors: Allan Gilreath, Claude Harding, Joel Jones and Rick Florence) and let them know your background in teaching technicians. References and a class outline are good too. Classes for next year are being chosen now and will probably be completed by Oct. or Novemeber. Class choice is up to the ID and many commitments have already been made. Don't take it personally if your class is not chosen, just keep offering it to the Institute Committee. Their goal is to provide classes you want to attend. A complaint I heard this year was that there were too many classes for everyone and RPT's don't like attending a class and then finding out it's very basic, as well as budding technicians don't appreciate classes way over their heads. Accurate class discriptions and titles (I know technicians love a good pun and enjoy catchy titles) that make it easy to understand the intended content of the class are appreciated. Laura Olsen, RPT X-IC -----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Phil Bondi Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 7:00 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Saying "No" (was Convention is focused) ..it's getting a little warm in here folks..Conrad better get home soon. Seriously, would this discussion be better placed on PTG-L? maybe..maybe not..it's just a suggestion. As the self-inflicted 'Rook', I haven't had this much fun reading posts related to the subject line since............oh never mind! I am reading with interest because I have a class idea that has yet to be developed that is aimed at the beginners. Even though it is aimed at the people just starting out in this biz, I wouldn't want to restrict it to 'just' the beginners..that would be unfair to the more experienced technicians, RPT or not, that may get one or 2 things out of that class. ..interesting discussion..I hope it doesn't fade and lose its punch over the weekend. -Phil Bondi (Fl.) tito@philbondi.com
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