How to Write Your First Information Sheet

In my previous blogs, I have discussed the different methods of presenting your methods of training delivery through an Information sheet. 

For this blog, I will now walk you through when you are required to write your own info sheet.

Information Sheet Format

The PTS CBLM have discussed the preferable format for an Information Sheet.  Same format was utilized and was described in my past blogs. Specifically, in:

1. Another way of writing Information Sheets; and
2. Competency Based Learning Material Part 2 of 2.

For this time around although the format will still be part of this tutorial, we will focus more, when writing your contents in your Information Sheet.

Content Explanation

Fig 1. First page of sample CBLM

It has always been my style to write a separate sheet for my introduction, for this allow me to group my contents properly, and gives me more space to write my objectives, rejoinders and introduction.

For this document, two rejoinders were available, the first one explains the relationship of this content to the past topics that I had already discussed, while the second rejoinder, explains this topics connection with the other topics that will be taken as the Trainees moves forward in their respective lessons.

Figure 2. Main Content Topic

The main content topic (Figure 2) is where I wrote all the needed information that the Trainee needs to learn about the basics of computers.  Worth noting is how the contents were cited and properly referred to as my sources.

The included diagram was something that I made my self thus, no referencing is needed since it is my own work.

Note:

It is worth noting that most of the contents were referred to Wikipedia as its source.  To some people, Wikipedia cannot be trusted as a reliable source due to its characteristic that its contents can be easily changed by anyone who wants to contribute to the topic. Be warned therefore, to ensure the correctness of the contents before using it, this is the same to any contents that can be found over the Internet. Not everything that can be found on the Internet can be considered reliable.

Figure 3, Page four of my content topic

For this page (Figure 3), what I wanted to focus on are the proper referencing of where the images that I had utilized. Although one can easily notice that it was taken on wikicommons, which is a free source of images that anybody can use, proper attribution is still needed since these were the requirements of the original owners.

Another thing that I would like to point out is the proper captioning of these images and how these images were referred to in my topic.  We do not simply place images in our contents, but we must also properly utilize it to better present our intended topic to our Trainees.

Worth noting too is the proper formatting of the entire document, which is very important to entice our trainees to read our contents.

Epilogue

Writing your own information sheet can be a daunting task, especially if we find it hard constructing our own sentences. But do note that we can utilized other people's work, provided that we do not claim it to be our own, and properly attribute the said work to its rightful owners. 

Lastly, when you find it hard to write your own content, search your contents over the Internet and look for written topics under creative commons, and or copyleft, contents written under these two are free provided that proper attribution is given to the original owner.    

Hope this helps. 

Should you have questions, feel free to comment bellow. 

Cheers!