Training Class Prep

I went to the fire station around eleven o’clock for getting some training equipment and talking to the training officer. By the time I left it was after three in the afternoon.

Finally I got home and started to work on the videos. I got a lot of videos about forcible entry. I had to boil it all down to just some of the main parts. It took several hours to get all the videos copied onto the computer. Then I spent time getting those videos made into a DVD.

Finally I worked on going through the Powerpoint. I was working on going through all the tools that we have on the rigs and putting the information into the presentation. That way I can let the class know where the items are located on the rigs. It turned out on Monday that the Powerpoints were so close with the book no new information was given out. So I had to add some to talk about.

I pretty much have spent ten hours working on everything over all. When it is all said and done I am going to do actually about twenty to thirty minutes of teaching. But the digitizing of the tapes took a lot of time. If all I had to do was digitize the whole tape rather than bits and pieces it would have been quicker.