Suwat, and his team at JP Total Solutions of Thailand, have shown how to organize a Zoom course in Bangkok today for their delivery of Forensic Comparison Software workstations for the Royal Thailand Police. The course was presented by me for the Royal Thai Police Fingerprint Section but it was the JP Total Solution team that has shown how a course for 20 students can be successfully conducted on Zoom.
The Students shared 5 workstations with the Forensic Comparison Software loaded. Each workstation had a zoom connection to follow the lecture. There was also a large screen at the front of the class with zoom feed. Finally there was a camera pointed at the class for the me to see the students and their reaction to the course. This last point turned out to be very important for me to judge how the students were reacting to my teaching.
My translator was Sasirat of the Royal Thai Police Fingerprint Section, who very ably translated my Australian English into Thai for the students. Not an easy task by any measure.
The approach that also made this course so successful was a system where I demonstrated a feature to the class. The translator then translated my words into Thai while I repeated the demonstration. I then had the class repeat the operation on their workstations with samples that I had preloaded to each workstation. I only proceeded to the next feature after confirmation that each student had mastered the operation of the feature. Simple but effective.
I had to admit that I was quite worried how my first course over Zoom would work. I had taught to individuals over Zoom previously but this was my first class. My detailed and over thought out lesson plan went out the window a few minutes into the lesson and I quickly realized that the best method was the most simple. A good result and I am plenty relieved.
I hope to repeat this success with future sales of Forensic Comparison Software. JP Total Solutions is a local Thai company that supplies the PC’s that has Forensic Comparison Software loaded and they have been a great partner for our sales to the Royal Thailand Police.