RE: Delivering a 5 week steemit course to promote the platform in Wales - anyone done anything similar?
Hey - Your general structure looks good ---- Top tip from a pro -stories - there is no better way of introducing something than through people's stories - pick someone from steemit (please not JB) and use them/ their profile to illustrate everything.. You've got your own story of steemit too of course.
Week 2 IMO should be:
- Steempower etc
- voting
- Posting
- commenting
- markdown
Your biggest problem is going to be managing expectations - there they all are, 20 SP and no clout, they start following people... £200 for a rambling video WTF and here's £0.02 for my thesis WTF, BS see ya. It's one thing going through that on your own, a class of 10 all going through it... it might amplify. It's a bewildering place for newbies.
To manage that I think being totally upfront about the Whale factor and the auto upvote circles on steemit and the necessity of a 'blinkering' strategy is crucial.
You should maybe try and get some delegated steem to give people a boost when they join for the first time!
I might write you an optional sixth section - something along the lines of 'a critical perspective/ avoiding the BS/ managing expectations/ the sociology of steemit.
You should be fine with 10, maybe 8 if you're not used to teaching. There could be quite a few technical queries.
Soz, quite long there, you hit my teacher button.
Most useful advice and info here, thank you.
I'll keep you posted as this progresses... and maybe grab a bit more input if you have time.
Thank you.
Absolutely, it's the kind of project that really floats my boat! I'm in the process of writing an informal 'thesis' on steemit, part of which involves analyzing the usefulness of all the educational posts (about steemit) and selecting out those which are most useful, I'll happily share it all. Problem is it all takes time. I'm resisting this pressure to post daily and holding back until I've researched everything thoroughly.