The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.
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🌎 Faculty Meetings are held monthly on the 15th or the closest business day through a Training Team post. Check #faulty-meeting for the latest meeting post.
On January 23rd, the Training Team will be conducting two 2-hour exercises to discover our shared values. These exercises are open to anyone interested in participating, and will be recorded.
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The Highlighted Posts section of the site will be changed to include projects and 3 priority posts.
There is a new #training-notifications Slack channel for notifications about Tutorials, Lesson Plans, Online Workshops, and Courses that have been recently published.
Online Workshop Feedback form: what would we like to know from participants?
Monthly newsletter on Learn
Can we do a monthly newsletter on Learn to announce newly published content? This newsletter will be shared with Marketing.
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Faculty Meetings are held monthly on the 15th or the closest business day through a Training Team post
You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.
Training Team Mission
The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.
Getting Involved
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.
The Training team is seeking to create a needs analysis document to help determine the most high-impact resources to provide on Learn WordPress. The Learning Needs Analysis project outlines foundational work required to assess the community’s learning needs and includes the Individual Learner Survey that launched in September 2022 which will guide us in our data analysis.
Please see the post Project Overview: Learning Needs Analysis for a more in-depth background and overview. This project thread seeks to outline the tasks we aim to complete to accomplish the project’s objectives.
Note that this is a foundational project. While we won’t be able to capture all the data, there is a possibility to iterate upon and run this project again in the future.
This project is in need of more project members. Please comment on this post if you are interested in helping out!
Project Timeline
Start: January 2023
End: April 2023
Project Objectives
Gather data from the community to determine their WordPress learning needs.
Analyze the gathered data to formulate an action plan for the resources on Learn WordPress.
Establish a set of standards for instructional content on Learn WordPress.
Tasks
Planning
Recruit project members
Determine respondent pool goal
Discuss survey marketing tactics
Determine survey analyzers
Deadline: 1 February 2023
Market the Survey
A marketing push before the cutoff would be helpful to help to gather more data before the cutoff date. This effort can include:
Social media (e.g., Twitter)
Newsletter (e.g., MeetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. Organizer newsletter)
Encouraging facilitators of Online Workshops to share the survey with their attendees
Deadline: 8 Feb 2023
Conduct the survey
The survey is currently in progress, and will be cut off on the deadline date, with a goal of a number of respondents to be determined.
Deadline: 15 Feb 2023
Review and analyze the survey data
Once the Training Team has collected the data from the survey, the project team will explore the data in more depth to help identify any trends or issues.
Deadline: 28 Feb 2023
Publish a post to share the analyzed results
This post on Make/Training will share a summary of the Individual Learner Survey results and analysis.
Deadline: 15 March 2023
Discuss the results
There are a few options for the project team to discuss the results. This will be up to the project members to decide what works best for them, whether that is synchronous or asynchronous meetings on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. or video call, or a blog post with discussion in the comments.
Deadline: 29 Mar 2023
Publish next steps
This post on Make/Training will detail the outcomes of the discussion and what the next steps will be.
Faculty Members have opted into an asynchronous meeting every 15th of the month (or the closest business day). We will hold our meeting over a two-week period, and the meeting host (typically the poster) or another assigned individual will post discussion outcomes at the end of the feedback period.
Please find outlined below Updates for review, Topics for Discussion, and items that require assistance in the Working Together section. The meeting host will add a comment for each topic for discussion.
Discussion period: 15–31 January, 2023
Updates
Here are some recent happenings and open feedback requests.
The Learning Needs Analysis project is seeking project members. A context post about the project was published recently, with a project thread to follow soon. Please review the project and comment if you are interested in contributing!
Please comment on this post with answers to the Faculty Member check-in items and your input on our topics for discussion.
Check-in: Please feel free to answer some or all of the below self check-in items
How are you doing?
What’s your bandwidth like?
How best can you help or be tapped in this coming month?
Anything you’d like extra eyes on?
We are seeking faculty volunteers to host Training Team meetings for the AMER/EMEA timezones. Upcoming meeting times are below. Please comment if you can help host any of these meetings.
January 17 @ 17:00 UTC – Meeting
January 24 @ 17:00 UTC – Office Hours
January 31 @ 17:00 UTC – Meeting
Have any other topics for discussion? Please your walk-on topic in the comment titled Walk-on Topics for discussion.
Working Together
Outlined below are the tasks per role that require assistance. All tasks are logged in the Training Team’s LearnWP Content Development board.
(Requires SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. login to view. You can set one up if you don’t have a Slack account.)
Please let a team repTeam RepA Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. know if you’d like to take notes, too!
2022 Year in review / Achievements
The team took some time to recognize our achievements from 2022. (See Training Team Goals for 2022 to see what those goals were.) Here are the achievements we listed:
We move our Project board from TrelloTrelloProject management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. to Github
We increased content in non-English languages
We increased team engagement in the APAC region
Many Online Workshops facilitated each month, including some in non-English languages
Check out the post above to understand the history and progress of the team’s desire to conduct a Needs Analysis. And if you haven’t taken the Individual Learner Survey yet, please do!
Bite-Sized Content on Learn
Conversations have started around creating 1 minute long videos on Learn. (Similar to TikTok videos, but about WordPress and hosted on Learn.) There is interest in collaborating with the Marketing Team on these, too. A blog post on the topic will come soon.
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Discussions are happening around the settings icon seen in the editor. Please contributed directly to this GitHub thread with your thoughts.
The Training Team Onboarding Paths project members have a check in call next Monday. They should have draft onboarding documents ready for the team to review next week.
Open Discussions
Should we move the Learn WordPress feed out of the training Slack channel and into a new channel?
Each time a new piece of content is published on Learn WordPress, there is a notification in the training Slack channel. This was initially set up to notify team members of activity on the site when there wasn’t a lot of activity yet in the channel.
However, now that there is more activity in the Slack channel, and much more content getting published regularly, the idea was raised to remove these notices out of the training channel and into its own new channel.
If you have thoughts about this, please comment below.
You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.
Training Team Mission
The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.
Getting Involved
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.
In the #training Slack channel, the idea for a Needs Analysis raised since early 2019. A more detailed idea of how to approach this came in Slack in mid 2021 and a post titled Learn WordPress: User Survey & Focus Groups reached out to the community to provide their anonymous feedback through a survey and more detailed input via focus groups about the Learn.WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ website.
While creating the initial survey drafts, the team noticed that there was too much branching occurring as we focused on creating questions aimed at who we thought are the target audience (e.g.,. if dev -> this question etc). In the end, we felt that it would be better to take a step back and identify first the target audiences and then design specific surveys for the different audiences to gain more details about the different needs people may have from the resources at Learn.WordPress.org. This is how the Individual Learner Survey was born as a first step to a more holistic and targeted Needs Analysis survey.
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Project executive leadership
Make teams
Contributors
MeetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. and WordCamp organizers
Extenders with businesses related to WordPress
Informal WordPress community gatherings (social media groups, owned forums/events/SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/./socials)
Representation of Stakeholders
The Training Team aspire to have representation from diverse organizations and individuals within and beyond the WordPress ecosystem, including:
Scale/sizes of organizations
Locales
Freelancer marketplace
Enterprise/agency
Product and service providers (pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party/theme devs, SaaS, Integrations)
WP Communicators (bloggers, podcasters, hosts)
Hiring organizations (contract or employer)
External trainers/instructors
AccessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility), Internationalization, and Diversity
Open Source Software
Tasks
Planning
Marketing the survey
Conducting the survey
Reviewing and analyzing the survey data
Discussing the results
Publishing next steps
Active Project
For more information on the active Needs Analysis project, please see the upcoming Project Thread (to be published shortly after this post. I will edit this post to include the link when it is published).
GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Labels
On January 23rd, the Training Team will be conducting two 2-hour exercises to discover our shared values. These exercises are open to anyone interested in participating, and will be recorded. Here are the session details:
If you are interested in participating, please let either Ben or Angela know to receive a calendar invite.
Note: Both sessions will cover the same content. In addition, the second session will also focus on combining discussions from the first session to come up with one set of values.
But why values? Shouldn’t we focus on strategy or goals?
Great question! Strategy and goals are undeniably important. But for this exercise, we’re going to focus on values. The Training team is instrumental and has the potential to help current and future WordPress enthusiasts around the world be successful with WordPress! How we get there together, in a way that we feel most proud of, requires a strong understanding of what we value in this space. With a good grasp on our shared values, we can then better identify strategy and goals that Training Team members feel fully aligned with.
How will this exercise work?
The exercise will take place over Zoom, and will invite participants to reflect on their contributions to the WordPress Make Training Team. This is an interactive exercise, so participants will also be invited to answer questions, share their perspectives, and join in active conversation. We’ll identify the Training Team’s shared values and reflect on how we want to carry those values forward.
In preparation for the values exercise, participants are asked to reflect on the following questions in advance:
Recall a past team experience (any team experience in your past, whether in the WordPress community, with a current or past job, etc.) that was incredible. What made this a peak experience for you, and what values were key to enabling that experience?
What’s the best version of the Training team? For example, if in three years, this team because wildly successful, what contributions are you making? What does that success look like, and why is that success important to the Training team?
Bite-sized content from Learn WordPress was requested by a Contributor during WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US, and distributed it via TikTok as an example. @west7 would like to research this and start creating 1-minute videos. Looking for volunteers to help put three examples together for feedback. The team would also look to collaborate with #marketing.
Change in an icon for the blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. settings sidebarSidebarA sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. that’s currently in GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/46851#issuecomment-1372406518
Faculty Meetings are held monthly on the 15th or the closest business day through a Training Team post
You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.
Training Team Mission
The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.
Getting Involved
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.
State of the WordState of the WordThis is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. 2022
How many people attended the State of the Word either in person or online? Learn was mentioned and WordPress Playground is now live. All the content on Learn now has a button in the sidebarSidebarA sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. that links directly to it. This makes it easier to spin up sites for online workshops and lesson plans. Learners can also use them in courses and tutorials. Watch the event and the Q&A on WordPress.tv
@angelasjin has offered to hold a 2-hour team values session with us. She is available the week of Jan 23 during the times available on this poll. This is a great way to align the team before we kick off the 2023 goal setting (slightly delayed). Please share your interest/availability.
Training Team Reps – Results of the Vote
The results are in, and all the top votes were in the APAC region:
Bite-Sized Content on Learn
As an example, bite-sized content from Learn WordPress was requested at WCUS and distributed via TikTok. @westnz, said he would like to do some research on this and create 1-minute videos
He met a few people interested in helping with content translation and videos in the last couple of weeks. They all agreed for zoom call so he could, explain how things work, and plan ahead.
You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!), and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.
Training Team Mission
The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning and downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments via learn.wordpress.org.
Getting Involved
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and projects.
Faculty Members have opted into an asynchronous meeting every 15th of the month (or the closest business day). We will hold our meeting over a two-week period, and the meeting host (typically the poster) or another assigned individual will post discussion outcomes at the end of the feedback period.
Please find outlined below Updates for review, Topics for Discussion, and items that require assistance in the Working Together section. The meeting host will add a comment for each topic for discussion.
Discussion period: December 20, 2022 to January 9th, 2023
Updates
Here are some recent happenings and open feedback requests.
@robinwpdeveloper recently joined us as our newest Content Creator Faculty Members
