Day One | Steemit Bootcamp for Underprivileged Kids

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

Wow, it was intense! The kids were learning so fast that I basically burned through 3 days of planned contents in 1! #gulp

Contents for Day 1:

  • Blockchain - The Next Big Revolution
  • Social Media - who makes the money?
  • Blogging - why do only 1% of the blogs make real money?
  • Definition of Content
  • Steemit Interface Overview
  • Generating Income on Steemit
  • Goal Setting - 80 Steem in 60 Days
  • Tags & Categories
  • Research on #Introduceyourself - Best practices and Big No-Nos
  • The 5W 1H Method of Introduceyourself
    • Why - What's your purpose to be on Steemit? Why Steemit?
    • Who - Who are you?
    • What - What inspires you? What do you represent?
    • Where - Where are you from? Where have you been?
    • When - When did any significant life events happened to you?
    • How - How did you get to where you are?
  • Markdown Language & Typora
  • Say hello to Imgsafe.org
  • Post your first post - #Introduceyourself
  • Say Hello to Steepshot
  • Introduction to Slack - The Better Way of Communication

Assignment for Day 1:

  1. Watch Richie Etwaru's TEDxTalk on Blockchain: Massively Simplified.

  2. Think of any topics that interests them (food, travel, photography, travel, stories, movies, learning, books, games, anything that they don't mind talking about every day). They can also pick subjects and topics they learned from school.

Key Learnings:

  1. Kids generally progress faster on Steemit because they don't ask too much of the following questions:

    • Where the money come from?
    • How to withdraw the money into a Malaysian account?
    • Is the money legal? (Totally zero questions on this one from the entire class)
    • Is the money real? (Also zero question on this too)
    • Can I deposit money to boost my Steem Power? (This one came from an adult.)
  2. They are quick in taking action. Throw in a SBD1 incentive for the first to post, and within 30 minutes, all posts are done. Normally, adults can take up to 6 months (or try never) to post their perfect first post.

  3. Peer pressure helps. It was good incentive for them to learn and apply fast, especially when they see their friends start getting upvotes.

  4. While adults always give the BS of "writer's block", interestingly, none of the kids had that issue.

  5. Some were quick to ask what other types of contents can they post on Steemit, and some came ready with their drawings. One kid, Louis, was quick to submit two posts of his drawings, and within an hour, got a compined upvote of $21! You can see the thrill in his eyes, something I recognised too - the first time you made money for yourself. Though the amount was little, that moment is totally unreplicable. Entrepreneurs would understand this very well.


  6. The teens are generally quite tech-savvy, and are quick to find familiarity amongst the new interface. Once a good linkage is build (Likes = Upvotes, Wallet = Piggy Bank, Steem Backed Dollars = Coins from Subway Surfer etc), they pick up really fast. For once, I won't have 1am messages asking how to upvote a post, or how to post a post.

  7. It's very crucial to stress the importance of the passkey. Some wrote it down, others took a photo of it. They also learned a simple Copy-And-Paste may not cut it, because what's pasted is sometimes not Plain Text.

  8. Getting them onto Slack encourages them to consolidate their communication on one platform (rather than WhatsApp and FB messenger all over the place). A simple "This is WhatsApp for Work" was enough to get them to understand the function of Slack.

  9. Some of the teens came and asked if their family members can be on Steemit too. This showed that they are also thinking of ways that others can benefit from the platform.

  10. A quick assignment of the tech-guru for each group sped up the process of explaining software setup. Though reluctant at first, a simple SBD1 salary to be the tech-guru for 9 days quickly solved the problem. :)

  11. The organisers told me it was the first time they intentionally delayed breaks and lunches because they were so excited about the platform and its potential.

Overall, the teens still need some a lot of polishing of their contents, which will be covered in Day 2 and 3. To objective is to help them have better structure, better grammar, better formatting, and to not have all their posts in All Caps!

Though it was a tiring day for me, mainly because of the distance and time of travel, but to see them achieving breakthroughs throughout the day, was a fantastic feeling to have.

If you want to put a smile not heir face, head over to the tag youthep and give some of them upvotes. It will totally make their day.

Maverick, signing off for the day. Zzzzzzz

One of the dogs on the premise. I'm gonna be sleeping like her.

Check out the previous post(s) in this Steemit Bootcamp for Underprivileged Kids Series:

  • Day Zero | The lead-up and Preparation

Wait, why's Mav posting on Steemit nowadays?

Well, unlike other blogging and social media platform, Steemit is the only platform that allows me to earn cryptocurrency when I engage with it. Yup, one Steem is about USD7, and you, too, can earn Steem Dollars every time you:

  • Create content (articles, blog posts, podcasts, videos, photos)
  • Upvote (like) other people contents
  • Comment on other people's posts
  • Have discussions, share opinions etc!

Yup, basically it's the very same thing you're doing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc all along!

The only difference? For once you can earn a nice income on the side!

Sign up for a free Steemit account, and you can thank me by coming back and upvoting this article. And guess what, you will earn Steem too for doing that! #awesome

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This post is so valulable It needs more attention! Amazing work, to be a Steemit Advocate and to teach the children the wonders of Steemit. It would really open their creative minds to a new realm of understanding that Social Media != (NOT EQUAL) FB/Twitter/Insta alone

Thanks! Yes, I totally believe in kids needing to be released from outdated knowledge of yesterday, and prepared for the challenges of tomorrow.

It's fine for our parents to not know Microsoft Word. But our time? We would suffer in our career. Our kids? They would be totally obsolete!

#youthep, a space to watch out for!!

That was awesome @maverickfoo! We can already imagine how Steem will change these kids' life down the line. And to see them making a post in less than an hour is exciting. I was your proverbial "perfect post maker" who took 4 hours to make a post that gave me $0.96. So i'd say they're doing a good job!

You're using Slack as a communication channel? That's cool!

One of the other channel that Teammalaysia uses is Discord (Whatsapp for Gamers). Most of us are also there.

Ha i so agree with you on the 4 hours post that makes $0.96. I guess the older we get the more we think of the unnecessary. For the kids it’s just like write away - what have i got to lose?

True true to both lovely ladies.

Funny thing is, with the kids, they don't ask a lot of unnecessary questions. Just tell them where the coins are and what to do to get the coins, and puff! They are gone! We adults are still wondering where the coins come from...

You can only feel how the other kids are feeling since even we adults are constantly comparing how many upvotes we get. #thepeerpressureisreal

Well, healthy pressure is good, eh?

Very valuable post! Thank you for updating us on your project @maverickfoo.

what you're doing is so meaningful!

Meaningful and tiring... But worth it. :)

True indeed.

whoa, nice! helping them to take on the Steem Train.

Steem on bro

Thanks man. Had been so busy juggling the Steemit Bootcamp and deadlines, didn't really have time to reply replies too! :(

@maverickfoo Awesome stuff!

This is wonderful. There are so many useful skills involved in posting on steemit. These kids are so lucky to have you as a teacher. Following your adventures! Thank you for being you!

Great work! Continue influencing Malaysian youth for the better

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