Comments on: ITEC http://blog.loftninjas.org/2006/06/21/itec/ Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:46:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: btm http://blog.loftninjas.org/2006/06/21/itec/comment-page-1/#comment-56 btm Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:41:00 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=22#comment-56 As long as there's a commitment to learn, it can be done I think. It's odd, thinking about my inability to get into artistic things, even though I have a lot of interest in how they work (there's a lot of camera geeks about too).<br/><br/>But if it is to be done, there has to be a foundation to start from. At my school, we try to put a lot of students through A+ before anything else. It doesn't really matter if you are a system administrator, or a programmer, or a web developer. If you don't know what the difference between a relative and absolute path is, you're going to have a hard time with those conceptual pitfalls.<br/><br/>The biggest problem I have is with people who won't let go, or just shut up. They're more concerned with something else than learning. Maybe what they know, talking about it, why it doesn't make sense, excuses and avoidance. etc.<br/><br/>Insert devmotivational poster here. As long as there’s a commitment to learn, it can be done I think. It’s odd, thinking about my inability to get into artistic things, even though I have a lot of interest in how they work (there’s a lot of camera geeks about too).

But if it is to be done, there has to be a foundation to start from. At my school, we try to put a lot of students through A+ before anything else. It doesn’t really matter if you are a system administrator, or a programmer, or a web developer. If you don’t know what the difference between a relative and absolute path is, you’re going to have a hard time with those conceptual pitfalls.

The biggest problem I have is with people who won’t let go, or just shut up. They’re more concerned with something else than learning. Maybe what they know, talking about it, why it doesn’t make sense, excuses and avoidance. etc.

Insert devmotivational poster here.

]]> By: l0k1 http://blog.loftninjas.org/2006/06/21/itec/comment-page-1/#comment-55 l0k1 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:53:00 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=22#comment-55 Does that mean the presentation went well? <br/><br/>A long time ago (in a time I like to call "Back in the day") I taught a basic internet course to a vacation rental place in Bar Harbor. Involving mostly just email and web browser, with some tangents into shit they asked like printing and some basic networking. <br/><br/>It made me decide that I never wanted anything to fucking do with teaching ever, ever again. I don't think you can take someone moderately technical and put them in an environment on non-technical people and say "Teach them.". Or maybe I'm just not good with people, I don't actually know. <br/><br/>Just wanted to relate my own teaching story, I felt left out. Does that mean the presentation went well?

A long time ago (in a time I like to call “Back in the day”) I taught a basic internet course to a vacation rental place in Bar Harbor. Involving mostly just email and web browser, with some tangents into shit they asked like printing and some basic networking.

It made me decide that I never wanted anything to fucking do with teaching ever, ever again. I don’t think you can take someone moderately technical and put them in an environment on non-technical people and say “Teach them.”. Or maybe I’m just not good with people, I don’t actually know.

Just wanted to relate my own teaching story, I felt left out.

]]> By: maddocks http://blog.loftninjas.org/2006/06/21/itec/comment-page-1/#comment-53 maddocks Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:08:00 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=22#comment-53 yeah so last month a ham radio operator came in and said "So your giving a wireless networking presentation tonight!" I am huh. Well I wish somebody had told me. Then I find out they have been plannig it for months!! Just nobody told me. So considering I had 45min to prepare I didnt bother. Anyway I did relativly good I figured these guys where technicall so I could skip the BS this is what a cat5e cable looks like. I gave my speal looked back at the end and one person in the crowd said "What did you say" the place went in to un uproar and I sat down. Yeah thats my story. Hope it makes you feel better. yeah so last month a ham radio operator came in and said “So your giving a wireless networking presentation tonight!” I am huh. Well I wish somebody had told me. Then I find out they have been plannig it for months!! Just nobody told me. So considering I had 45min to prepare I didnt bother. Anyway I did relativly good I figured these guys where technicall so I could skip the BS this is what a cat5e cable looks like. I gave my speal looked back at the end and one person in the crowd said “What did you say” the place went in to un uproar and I sat down. Yeah thats my story. Hope it makes you feel better.

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