Teaching Oracle (Part 2)

The last two days I teached “Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I” to another class.

I like to teach, I like to share my knowledge and help people… it gives me a warm feeling ;-) Maybe another reason why I like to give Oracle courses is because I can “preach” Oracle and tell the world about a wonderful thing! Sounds like Jesus, isn’t it? ;-)

At the right, a picture of the students… When I first talked to them, I had the impression they weren’t that interested in Oracle. I can understand them (although I’ve always been interested into Oracle!) when I heard they saw a lot of the Oracle theory for creating statements, procedures etc. The FUN part was a bit missing! I think I’m a bit different than a normal teacher. I try to show the students what they already “know” and make then the connection to the database. How does that look like into an Oracle database? Afterwards quickly explaining the slides (theory), to spent most of the time on hands-on exercises. I always learned quicker when I really saw what happened, so I try to teach like that. (But I also know not all people are the same, some need to read about, some need to hear about it, some need to see it working…)

I hope the students now know that Oracle can be FUN too!