The workshop’s main goal is to enable each child to create a personal website and learn how to manage its content. All children work with volunteer experts who help them through the initial setup and guide them through creating different types of content which they need to think of themselves.
The workshop is a great exercise in creative use of technology, and combines skills in writing, completing the text with visual elements, creating image galleries, and finding and embedding video content.
During the introductions, each child will have a chance to introduce themselves to the group, and share their favorite interests and hobbies. They’ll be able to choose one of these interests to be a topic of their personal website. If the children want to choose the topic of their website ahead of time, we encourage them to bring along some of their original photos (for example, of their pet) that they might use in this project. (It’s best to bring them on a USB drive.)
Each child will be taken through the steps of setting up a site on WordPress.com with a volunteer displaying the steps on a computer connected to a screen so each child can follow each step.
At the end, we’ll do a “show and tell” session where each child will present their website and have a couple of minutes to talk about it. Children are encouraged to keep updating their websites after the workshop.
What you will learn
- How to set up your own personal site
- How to publish content, text, images, video, galleries
- How to change the way your site looks like
- How to extend your site with more functionality