The registration for the 1-day newbie training for this Friday (nov 3rd) and the Boston Museum of Science is on the same form as the Conference registration:
http://dotlrn.org/events/2006-boston/fees
To see the syllabus, go here:
https://openacs.org/xowiki/en/November_3rd_and_November_4th_Training_and_Hacking_Days
For any of you interested in a more extensive training - done online over 10 webinars and 10 chat sessions, please see
http://206.192.23.81/acspropel/syllabus and let me know.
The interest level is high enough that there definitely will be a training session start early December.