Planning and delivery of a workshop for young people from London. Designed to help them gain blogging and digital skills by combining theoretical and practical approaches, and journalistic, writing and photography knowledge.
Background
How to turn a summer blogging course for young people into an unforgettable and educational experience? By combining advice of industry specialists with fun challenges, treasure hunt, team tasks and even Q&As.
As a part of summer programmes for young people in the borough, Roundhouse a creative non for profit hub, organises various music, arts, theatre and digital workshops. For the Roundhouse bloggers course they were searching for a digital expert with their own blogging experience.
Approach
I planned and delivered a week long session working with a journalist facilitator and two special guests: a creative copywriter joining the workshop via a Twitter Q&A and a professional photographer. During the workshop, with a group of 7 young people, we covered the following topics:
- Clever and engaging writing
- Blogging platforms and personas
- Content promotion using digital media
- Freelancing skills and vlogging
- Photography as a way of blogging
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The course was delivered using different formats to engage young people, such as:
- treasure hunt in a search for creative inspiration
- one day blogging challenge
- elevator pitch task
- team and individual exercises and more