- Instructor: Adejoke Haastrup, Project Manager at KidsCode Nigeria.
- Suitable for: Students ages 8+ with basic internet skills interested in blogging, writing and coding
- Language: English
- Duration: 9am – 5pm
- Capacity: 15-20 kids
- Bring along:
- A notebook and a pen
- You need to have a registered email address (yours or parents) that you can access during the workshop. If you don’t have one, one will be created for you during 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
- Introduction to WordPress development (those for the coding workshop)
Workshop details
The workshop starts with a short exercise in which each kid needs to create a list of the three things they really like and three activities they really enjoy. They write that down on a piece of paper and take turns introducing themselves to the others and reading their lists of favourite things.
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 good exercise in both creativity, expression in writing and combining skills like writing, completing the text with visual elements, creating image galleries, finding and embedding video content.
Each child is then 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 do a “show and tell” session where each child presents their website and has a couple of minutes to talk about it. Children are encouraged to keep updating their websites after the workshop.
Location
- The Zone Tech Park, Gbagada Lagos
- Date: Saturday, May 11th 2019
- 09.00am – 05.00pm