 Welcome everyone to this online workshop brought to you by learn.wordpress.org about Learn WordPress. So this is to tell you all about what we have to offer on Learn WordPress. And so what we'll be talking about today as I mentioned will be giving you an overview or when I say we I mean me, I will be giving you an overview of Learn WordPress. And the content types that are offered on Learn WordPress. Briefly how we share Learn WordPress with the community and, and also I'll be talking a little bit about the WordPress training team and how to contribute back to the Learn WordPress initiative. At the end we'll have some Q&A if folks have any questions but you are always welcome to ask questions at any time in the chat and I will try to get to them as they come up. But at the end we'll also revisit any questions that I may have missed. And also yeah, feel free to just chat in the chat. If you have anything to contribute to the conversation. It'd be great to hear from you. Let's dive in. And so Learn WordPress is brought to you by the Make WordPress training team. So Make WordPress is make.wordpress.org. And it's the home of all of the teams that contribute back to the WordPress open source project. One that contributes to WordPress is it's a global team. It's people all over the world with all sorts of skills, not just developers that make WordPress happen. So the training team is one of many I think there's maybe 21 or 22 teams now. I am mainly focused on the training team. And as I mentioned, it's a global community of volunteers. And some of us are sponsored to do the work like I am. I'm sponsored to contribute to WordPress full time. And so the training team in particular helps people to learn to use, extend and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning, as well as downloadable lesson plans that instructors can use in live environments. And all of this is hosted at learn.wordpress.org. And our training team representatives are the folks that represent the team to the rest of the WordPress project. They ensure issues are raised and addressed as needed and they coordinate press team efforts. Otherwise they are contributing on the team alongside the rest of us and our three reps for this year are Pooja, Destiny and Ben, and they are all located in the Asia Pacific region. And we usually change team reps every year just to keep ideas fresh and just to make sure folks get an opportunity. Let's talk about the training team. Our current impact as of last month. We have 138 tutorial videos on Learn WordPress 110 lesson plans. 286 online workshops I know there's been a lot more in the past few weeks so that number has likely changed quite a bit. We have 22 courses and on WordPress.tv we have 138 recordings of our online workshops so we do aim to record these workshops as much as we can and post those recordings on WordPress.tv. WordPress hosts content created by 48 and I think it's maybe 51 people now, different people and we have a faculty program of folks that focus on particular areas in the project. That faculty program consists of about 32 members. And we've been seeing a lot of the content on Learn WordPress being translated into many different languages and so so far, we have at least one piece of translated content within Portuguese, Japanese, Greek, Bungalow, Serbian and Italian so and hopefully more very soon. As I mentioned, we'll do a quick overview of Learn WordPress. So what is Learn WordPress. Here we go. Learn WordPress is an educational website and initiative that seeks to be the definitive space for WordPressers across the globe to learn and teach about WordPress. I'm curious to hear from you in the chat if this is your first time hearing about Learn WordPress or if you're familiar with the resources that are offered on Learn WordPress which we always shorten to say learn so if you hear me just say learn it's about this site. So, yeah, if this is your first time I'd love to hear. And also if you've used any of the resources here. In the meantime, let's do a little bit of history about Learn WordPress. So the idea for this, the site started in 2013, all the way back in 2013. So the work on this began at WordCamp San Francisco and the content that was created for Learn WordPress originally lived in a GitHub repository that the training team had. And you'll see there's a big jump here 2013 to August 8 2020. The first lesson plan was published so you know stuff happens, life happens. This is a volunteer role for a lot of people and it took seven years for the first lesson plan to get published, which is a great milestone. I think during well I know during the beginning of the pandemic is when a lot of events and learning was going online and so the need for resources on Learn WordPress was in high demand so yeah we just we made that happen. And you'll see a few more milestones that happened in August of 2020. The first tutorial video, which is formerly known as as a workshop. It was published a few days after the first lesson plan was published. So when it was formerly known as a workshop. I can like it's a little bit confusing because what we're doing right now isn't called an online workshop. So August 13 2020, the first online workshop, which was formerly known as a discussion group that was that was held in on August 13. Later that year in December mid December the the learn WordPress website officially launched and shortly after the first course was published, which was polyglots contributor training. So August the polyglots contributor training is the training program for the polyglots team, which is like the translation team on the WordPress project. So do we have on learn WordPress what kind of content do we have. We have four types of content. I already mentioned all of these but we'll go into them in detail. So we've got lesson plans, tutorials courses and online workshops and those are our four main categories of content. So first we have lesson plans lesson plans are teaching guides for facilitators and teachers to use when presenting at events or leading educational environments so a lot of folks that are in education that want to teach WordPress will teach this in a class. A lot of local WordPress meetups will use lesson plans for planning out an event for their local meetup. So each lesson plan enables the teacher to lead a 30 to 60 minute learning session that's aimed at clearly defined learning objectives. So you can find lesson plans at this link here and shortly after this event I'll be sharing the links and my slides. So you can refer to all this later. Because I know when we close zoom we lose all of the, the chat. So, yeah, just quickly, I'll just show you the lesson plan page live that's on learn WordPress looks like this. And it's pretty easy to browse by topic audience so what kind of user you are what level you're at and how long a lesson is estimated to take. So that's a pretty neat way of to find a lesson plan if you're looking to to run that for for group. And the thing that is missing right now I think is by language and I hope that will be coming soon. So go back to our presentation here. And so the screenshot on the left is just an example of a lesson plan there so each lesson plan includes this whole this easy here so it's a fully formed lesson plan for educators with objectives prerequisites. So if you have any questions, any materials that you need notes for the presenter and even some slides. Some of these lesson plans don't have slides but they will be linked in each lesson plan if they're available. There's a lesson outline some exercises assessments and of course some additional resources if they if there's any. So it's fully formed and ready for you to use. So our next type of content that we have on learn WordPress are called tutorials. And these are short standalone videos they're each around like five being to be about five minutes long. That are longer. Some of the early tutorials we had, you know, could be like 1520 minutes long but the goal has been to keep these short and concise, because each tutorial addresses like a single topic, and they're intended to be like quick how to create guides for WordPress and sharing a link in the chat for you. And we'll take a quick look at that. That page here so here are tutorials. The way that you can browse these you can browse by topic there are series, but I prefer to like browse by topic. Thankfully, this section also has filter by language so I think that's, that's awesome. Most of these are going to have subtitles. And of course if you're looking for a tutorial with that applies to a specific version of WordPress there's this filter here that you can choose there. Back to our presentation. So as you saw it as you see in this example here on the right side of the screen, each tutorial includes that short video that's embedded in the page. There'll be a transcript below. So if you need to read what was what was said in the video that will be below there should also be captions enabled. It includes learning outcomes comprehension questions and additional resources. So tutorials, even though they're good for learning that you could actually use tutorials and teaching as well so it is. I've been done in meetup groups where and I've done it myself where you can watch a tutorial or a string of related tutorials during a meetup or a class and ask some of the comprehension questions or do an exercise. So it could these tutorials can be used for both learning and teaching. Alright, so we have courses on learn WordPress which are a series of online self guided lessons that are created with a WordPress plugin called Sensei. So each of these courses consist of multiple lessons, which build up to an overall objective course topics will vary between basic WordPress usage technical WordPress customization. And some onboarding resources that are used for the different make WordPress teams. And the link here will be in the chat. And so these are largely self guided courses, you could do these as a cohort if you want to do it along with your class or meetup group. And here is what the courses page looks like. So we've got a few different categories here so about developing, there's an intro to WordPress category using the site editor and then contributing to WordPress are a few courses course categories you can you can check out. And then, finally, we have online workshops, which you are sitting in one right now. So these are what we intend to be daily live learning sessions. We at least have multiple a week. And you'll see an example of the calendar of online workshops on the right here on topics on online workshops will vary from basic WordPress usage to technical coding demonstrations. There's discussions about things like how the internet works how do domains work. And also the history of WordPress which is a workshop that I run every once in a while, which is a fun one to do. So with online workshops, you probably experienced this. These are posted on meetup.com, and you get shared like a zoom link or whatever video platform that the facilitator wants to use. And we do have some folks that run online workshops that are live streams so you can oftentimes they're people that are creating site creating a theme or a plug in or just doing some development work to keep an eye on the calendar for that. Here's what the page on learn WordPress looks like. So it has the calendar there. Yeah, you'll see that there are many, there are many that every day. There are sometimes that we do have some empty days but oftentimes that's because there is an event going on there's actually word camp Asia going on over the weekend and a lot of the folks on the training team are are traveling. We generally have a lot of online workshops to choose from a variety of time zones. Let's go back here. So we consider online workshops a safe zone where people can develop new ideas. Explore issues, ask questions there are no silly questions by the way. So we all learn together. That's what I always like to say about online workshops. To me myself I'm constantly learning I, and I know that a lot of my colleagues on the training team, the teammates on the training team feel the same way that online workshops are a space where we learn together and sometimes we experiment of like how we learn and we like to learn from you as well. So bring your knowledge and experience to these workshops. And it's greatly appreciated. You get to network with people over shared interests. We kind of have a little bit of a community going within our online workshop attendees so people have networked with each other there and found help with their own WordPress questions and issues within workshop attendees so I think that's great. So as I mentioned, networking, people exchange theories collaborate on work together, engage in uncertainty, which is, yeah, we don't know what we don't know. And just come come as you are to these workshops, even if you feel like you're a beginner, pop in on a developer advanced developer workshop and see what people do. So these resources are free for you and yeah just try to absorb as much information as possible. Do we have any questions on the Learn WordPress site so far, quite in the chat so feel free to to say anything in the chat at any time. All right, so let's move forward. We're going to talk a little bit about sharing WordPress very briefly. This is this is how we recommend what kind of content that someone using Learn WordPress would should use, or that would we suggest. So if you're a meetup organizer, or an educator. We recommend you use lesson plans in tutorials. If you are a curious user online workshops tutorials and courses are good for you and if you're a developer same thing online workshops tutorials and courses there's plenty of content made for you on Learn WordPress. So I mentioned at the beginning we'll talk a little bit how to contribute to learn WordPress and the training team. So just like to speak briefly on what the training team does. So the training team has five main areas of contribution. So we have them in this pretty little graph here. So content creators are the folks that focus on creating content that's hosted on learn. We have content translators that take any published English content and they translate that into different locales. I'm going to go back around to the left side of the circle here so editors review content before it is published and they also review published content and make updates as needed. Subject matter experts are folks that vet the topic ideas before the content is created and they also work alongside content creators acting as sounding boards for them and helping them get the most recent and updated information in their content. And then finally administrators are the folks that work behind the scenes to make sure that the team works smoothly. Administrators focus on providing the other roles with the tools that they need to be successful and effective towards the goals of the training team. And in the middle there we have the team reps who I mentioned at the beginning. And they are there to tie it all together and represent the training team. All right, so I won't read everything on this slide, but this is just an example this shows the, what we call the contributor ladder for the training team. On the left hand side we talk about the stages of volunteering, starting with connecting and engaging performing and leading. So, you touch on each of these stages with all of the different roles that we have on the training team and you can see the type of work that each of these roles do. And again, I'll share these slides later so you can review that at your own pace. So how can you contribute to the training team and learn WordPress. Well, you just come use our content at learn WordPress if you notice any content that needs updating or if you find you know if you find an error. We do have a form where you can report feedback. And we'll share that link here. These are linked in the slides but I know that you can't click on them so here's that link. If you see any errors in the content on learn WordPress please please send in your feedback. If you have ideas for content. We have a GitHub repository where you can submit your topic ideas. If you're not familiar with GitHub, not the worry I was not familiar with GitHub at all before I started working with the training team so there are a few other ways you could submit ideas. You could use another to contact for that the training team has over at make.wordpress.org. So that's our general contact form. You can also join slack which is a common chat program that a lot of folks use. So we have a slack instance for the WordPress project. You can join that at chat.wordpress.org. And that's where you can in the training channel there is where you can interact with folks from training team, give any feedback, or if you're just curious about what we're working on, you can come and sit in on the meetings everything is worked on publicly as much as possible so is sometimes just fascinating to just watch meetings in progress or people work on their projects in public. And so if you want to join the team reaching out in slack filling out the contact form. And we have a brand new onboarding program that if you're interested in contributing to the training team that you can go through this self guide self guided onboarding program and that link on the chat. Please check out that our new onboarding and if you're new to the training team we'd love to hear your, your feedback on that onboarding process to see how that works for you. Another way that you can contribute to the training team is applied by applying to facilitate or present. So facilitating online workshop or presenting a tutorial. So if you want to facilitate or even co host an online workshop co hosting is one of the easiest ways to get involved. So basically it is attending one of these online workshops and being there for the host so supporting them watching the chat for questions. I'm just making sure there are no technical issues. And that is a super easy way to contribute. So you can apply to facilitate or co host over at this link. And if you have a subject that you would like to share your knowledge about in a short tutorial you can also apply to share your knowledge in a tutorial at this link, and I know I'm throwing a lot of links at you. Such as the nature of online workshops. All right. And finally, something I wanted to mention is that we're, we want to improve the resources that we make available to the community on learn WordPress so we are currently running this survey. We're working towards updating the needs analysis for learn WordPress. So this survey is the first phase of this project, and it will help us to, to continue to grow and improve the materials that the that we're producing for the committee. So here in this survey is closing on February 20. So if you could take a few minutes to take the survey, we'd love to know what you think about the resources on learn we'd like to know how you like to learn and what you like to see more of. So is it for from me for the content kept it a tight half hour for for the content but I'd like to open it up to any questions that you all may have about learn WordPress about the training team. Let me give you a minute to chime in in the chat if there are any questions. While we're waiting for questions I'll just show you all the site for the training team, which is at make.wordpress.org slash training. Martha I have a question. Let me see if I can unmute you here. Hi. Hi. So it's just easier to talk than type this on question. Of course. I don't know that probably people are in a similar situation but so I had a site develop I'm a photo, Photoshop and retouching. And, you know, my developer like showed me how to use my site, and then he disappeared. So I, you know, I sit on the I sit in on those workshops of the, you know, and what I find difficult is everybody's coming from a different place. Other kinds of presenters are like trying to get a lot of content in an hour and if you have holes and whatever they're saying like you go we get something but it's not like it's come away going huh. Right. So I think, I think the I think what you're showing me the causes might be a better place for me to like fill in my database on what's missing. So that's my biggest thing is like every year. Because now everybody doesn't come with the same base knowledge. A lot of those, those workshops are just kind of all over the place and then the presenter is going to get it in an hour so do you have any advice on like, how to fill in the gaps like in some of my situation I'm not a developer and then and like some costs like my side of a lot of custom stuff so like I don't know like there's just things I just don't know how to do or like this learn it systematically I guess is what I'm trying to say is, you know, Yeah, I mean it depends on the topic. Yeah, I can I get it. I get there's as you said there are people coming from from all sorts of places all sorts of levels and it's, it is challenging to come up with a workshop or a tutorial that is like concise fits everything in an hour and tries to cover like all levels. When you need individual help, I would say, talking to your local WordPress meetup group is always the best, the best option there because you can get a lot of like one on one with people that are usually not developers or designers, people that want to get back so oftentimes the organizers of your local WordPress meetup have those resources and that time to give you that one on one. And as you mentioned, courses can take you from start to finish on a particular topic so that, and you can do that at your own pace, rather than being worried about like fitting in a question in our long workshop. Also, I would say some of these live streams that happened through the online workshops are often very open to questions because they don't have an agenda they don't have a particular presentation to have so attending some of the live streamed sessions that we have listed on on our meetup group and the learn WordPress meetup group. I think you have an opportunity to ask for ask some specific questions. Okay, great. Thanks. Sure, you're welcome. We have any other questions. Right. Well, it sounds pretty quiet or looks pretty quiet in the chat. I do want to make sure that if you did have a question that it gets answered. If you think of something later please post it on the meetup event, and I'll be reviewing those later I'll also be sharing the recording of this session as well as the slides. I'll share that in the meetup group as well. And, yeah, you'll find this recording and other recordings of workshops over at WordPress dot TV. And I will just throw one more link at you because I can. I have it right there in front of me so this link is where we have all the recorded online workshops so if you ever want to catch up on any other workshops or even this one. You'll find those recordings there. Thank you everyone for coming and hope to see you at the next one. Thank you everyone.