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<p>Hello all and Boris,</p>
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<p>After thinking about the conversation, perhaps rather than (or as an alternative to?) a certification, I suggest a new-user and/or student competition. From my end of the public school (Oak Grove High School, San Jose, California) spectrum, I feel like my
colleagues would not find value in being TeX certified and this would not improve our membership numbers or quality. A student competition, however, would involve teachers or mentors seeking out students who would already be willing to learn and produce some
document to specifications using TeX, hence actually fostering a fondness for it rather than a sense of obligation.</p>
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<p>If we are still interested in the certification route, I would be unable to produce modules or training guides at this point, but I would be happy to be a guinea pig in testing it to let the producers know how much time it actually ends up taking me and
my potential successes with it.</p>
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<div id="Signature">// J.C. Claudio :: UCSD Class of 2003 </div>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> edutex <edutex-bounces@tug.org> on behalf of Boris Veytsman <borisv@lk.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 23, 2017 1:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> edutex@tug.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [edutex] TeX teaching</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Dear friends at EduTeX<br>
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I've just had a nice talk with Jennifer and Dennis Claudio at a Palo<br>
Alto cafe (I am moving to this area due to a change of my job). The<br>
ideas below are mostly theirs (modulo my mistakes and<br>
misunderstanding).<br>
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Is it possible for us to create<br>
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1. A sample syllabus for teaching TeX (LaTeX OR ConTeXt).<br>
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2. An online instructor certification program, where anybody can get<br>
a paper that a person have studied the syllabus, passed the test<br>
and can teach TeX herself.<br>
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The certification should be free (or deeply discounted) for school<br>
teachers, probably modestly priced for everybody else, with any<br>
proceedings benefitting TUG and TeX education fund.<br>
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Are there people on this list interested in this activity?<br>
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Good luck<br>
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-Boris<br>
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"Those who will be able to conquer software will be able to conquer the<br>
world."<br>
-- Tadahiro Sekimoto, president, NEC Corp.<br>
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