Chilling with Loki on the velour-lined loveseat in the New Orleans Housing Resource Center as Alan lectures on adding tags in WordPress at Web Publishing 102 (tags and image uploads). Loki and I are the teaching aides or elves, as we like to call ourselves. The students, are young and old, interested and inquisitive, and I see this instruction working in the long-term with some refinement of the lesson plans. Tonight, I am going to say more about the wonders of Flickr and citizen photojournalism.
Come by next Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 at 6:00 pm for another round of Web Publishing 101 at 1832 Felicity St, New Orleans, LA. Future topics include Podcasting, Google Calendar and Advanced Imaging.
P.S. I love this picture Loki took of me at the workshop. It captures my essence – docked to a computer, silver and gemstones hanging from earlobes and goofy grin on face.
I think I’ll make a poor elf, since my webbie days are long behind me. But if we’re talking about working with people on using blogging tools with some basic HMTL or Wiki coding, I can probably help out.
It’s simpler than that, Mark. We teach them how to set up WordPress blogs and the utter basics of web publishing. There are people in there who are still learning to drag-and-drop. The point is to foster and encourage the layperson, not only those who are computer nerds, to get the word out (about anything but mostly community and educational news and missives).
When are the rest of these workshops. I am heading out of town for a couple of weeks, but I would be interested in attending one (or helping out) just for fun when I return.
The 101 and 102 sessions are on Tuesdays and Thursdays, respectively, from 6 to 8pm. Otherwise, they’ll be specially announced at .
Hey cool, I wish I could join in.