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An important lesson for tech trainers

By Meredith Farkas | January 31, 2006

I know Michael Stephens and Jessamyn are good at teaching people about technology, but I really think they could learn a thing or two from StrongBad of the hilarious Internet cartoon Homestar Runner. Check out this scene where StrongBad offers an introduction to technology for middle school students. My favorite quote: “Robots are technology shaped like square people.” Brilliant!

Can you “speak technology” like StrongBad?

[via Scott at BiblioTech Web]

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7 Responses to “An important lesson for tech trainers”

  1. Michael Says:
    January 31st, 2006 at 9:34 pm

    Absolutely fabulous! Thanks! I loved the folding up of the floppy disk!

    M.

  2. Dave Hook Says:
    February 1st, 2006 at 8:45 am

    Working for a robotics firm, I like that quote as well as “Robots….are primarily used for destroying Japan and serving hors d’oeuvres”

    Also, for more StrongBad on technology, see this one on how to create a web page - it’s a classic:
    http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail51.html

    Dave

  3. Meredith Says:
    February 1st, 2006 at 8:53 am

    Come on, Dave, are you saying you don’t like giant Flash intros and rotating GIFs?

  4. scully Says:
    February 1st, 2006 at 9:16 am

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  5. scully Says:
    February 1st, 2006 at 9:17 am

    oops. Didn’t anticipate the non-wrap of that. My bad. Times like this when a preview would be helpful. … or smarter users.

  6. Chris Says:
    February 1st, 2006 at 11:32 am

    Do you guys like techno????

    It was also Trogdor’s birthday a few weeks ago. So first we’ll start with an ’s’.

  7. Dave Hook Says:
    February 1st, 2006 at 2:22 pm

    …animated gifs, black backgrounds and comic sans serif font. Brings back fond memories of the web circa 1997….those were the days.

    BTW - the best flash intro of all time:
    http://www.skipintro.nl/skipintro/skipintro98.htm

    From that StrongBad email comes this classic quote:
    ‘The Internet is a place where nothing happens. You need to take advantage of that’

    Dave