Welcoming Novice
Few months ago, I had this kind of thoughts:
how to welcoming people who are absolutely newbies in building websites?
Websites has survived until now. From the fierce of native apps like Apple and Android, somehow, websites stand still. Moreover, we have Progressive Web Applications (PWA) which looks like a native apps but run under website platform. Based on that, I guess learn to build our own websites is still relevant for the now and the future.
For young people, especially senior high or college students may find it easy to learn about the website building, because most of them are digital natives. On the other hand, how about people which are so passionate in learning about this stuff but have no clue at all about where to start?
I’m not speaking about the senior citizens, I’m speaking about the mid-range people, the between 35 to 50-ish. The stay-at-home mothers, women who chose to work from home, people who are no longer able to work in public area, or housewifes who have tons of DIY/cooking ideas and need place to share.
How about them?
How they’re gonna learn?
Where do they need to start?
Little did I know, my mind spectrum invited another thoughts. One of friends texted me in one fine evening.
Hey, do you have time in teaching a blogging workshop for beginners?
I replied, “Sure”. Without any hesitate.
We scheduled a meeting, she introduced me to another partner, which is a very humble book writer.
Next thing we knew, we’ve made blogging workshop for mothers. Together.
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We started from this chip-size idea and it started to grow exponentially. From a seed concept, became a doorway that gave access to people who really want to learn about websites, especially blogging in a simple way.
We held the workshops in a cafe nearby with a family vibe to make them feel like home, to make them feel comfortable and no one will judge them for making mistakes, because mistakes are important, aren’t they?
October 28th was our second workshop and we are brewing another one this November. I truly hope that this workshop will open more chances for people to grow. To express their passion, to let them free from all of their embargoing minds, and to let them be creative in their own way.
The workshop curriculum itself is so simple. We’ve divided it into three levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Each levels have their own batches. We don’t taught people how they supposed to do. We just asked,
If you want to have a website, what will it be about?
What do you want to share to other people?
How do you want people to know you?
From there, we started to make the blog’s skeleton, with pencil and paper.
We started from the things that people aware of, familiar of and gave them the power and magic wand to make the website as they imagined.
Why blogging?
From the huge pile of kind of websites, why do we chose to share about blogging?
Well, because we thought that blogging is simple. There are sooo many available platforms to start a blog. Moreover, blogging is about creating contents, a good, even high quality contents so you’ll grab readers, make you trusted and influence people.
Our curriculum foundation is happiness. How to invite them slowly into the world of websites, step by step, know about it piece by piece, so they’ll feel the thirst, the urge to keep on learning, to keep improving and growing.
It was not always sunshine and rainbow. This kind of workshops have their own perks, of course. But deep down inside, it’s really good to know that someone who was a total novice, have this kind of bravery to join in a blog competition.
I’m speaking about the triggering power. I mean, we all have that kind of power. To make people move forward, and witnessing them grow, it’s a very precious gift. A very valuable experience. I hope, you’ll feel it too. Because, it made me happy. :)
