Your Worst IT Workshop?

suntory writes "I am a lecturer at a Spanish university. This week had to attend a workshop on 'Advanced HTML and CSS' for the university staff. Some of the ideas that the presenter (a fellow lecturer) shared with us: IE is the only browser that follows standards; frames and tables are the best way to organize your website; you can view the source for most CSS, Javascript and HTML files, so you can freely copy and paste what you feel like — the Internet is free you know; same applies for images, if you can see them in Google Images Search, then you can use them for your projects. Of course, the workshop turned out to be a complete disaster and a waste of time. So I was wondering what other similar experiences you have had, and what was your worst IT workshop?"

Comments

Re:I was a co-facilitator at one...

[The Angry Mick]

Oh that I could go back to the day of swapping floppy disks to run stuff.

/twitches uncontrollably

Re:Not the worst for *me*...

[orclevegam]

That adage is complete crap. Effectively passing knowledge on to students in a way that results in them actually learning something is nontrivial. No one ever said they were any good at teaching. I've had plenty of crap teachers, it's just that often times the barrier to entry for a teaching position is less than that of a position in the workforce. Aside from occasional audits (still don't know how the crap teachers pass those), they don't actually have much oversight, but in the workforce they're expected to have working deliverables and poor performance will get noticed at some point.