Hi Steemit!
I am Stephi, a 28 year old creative writing teacher based in Vienna, Austria. I am always on the lookout to increase the scope of my courses by introducing new elements into our curriculum. While this usually means reading new authors and helping students to adapt their writing styles accordingly in order to broaden their personal abilities, I am also fascinated by the possibilities of new technolgies. In this context I absolutely had to investigate Steemit once one of my students brought it up in my class, last week. To be quite honest, I am amazed.
Seeking adequate rewards for your work has always been one of the harshest aspects of any writer's career and I know from my personal work experience that many prolific writers refrain from further building on their talent, simply because they fear their work would not earn them enough. Generally, the advance of the digital realm has been a double-edged sword in this regard. Maybe technologies like Steemit can help to motivate unsure writers again to further explore this beautiful and powerful form of communication.
I currently have my classes on Tuesday and on Friday and today I let my students know, that we will start our one-week Steemit project on Tuesday! Our principal has given her ok, although she made it clear that financial rewards should not be earned during our courses. Therefore we have agreed, that students will either give back the rewards earned during next week's project to the owners of this site or destroy them at the end of the week (if this is possible). Legally, this should be the best approach to avoid any conflict. This post is intended to serve as a sort of announcement, already bridging the gap between the classroom and the digital realm. This will give me enough time to work out the details of the project over the weekend.
My courses usually focus on german writings, but for this project we will switch to English, as this should increase our prospective audience, I hope. I am inclined to not make this a contest for rewards between students (as they wouldn't keep them anyway) but to encourage free experimentation. So Steemit, prepare yourself for sixteen young and eager writers, their poems and and their verbal exuberance!
If any one of you has any specific ideas of what this project could entail or which guidelines I could set my students please feel free to let me know!
I think that's great! I wanted to be a teacher too, but I have too many interests and decided to become a writer/artist instead. If you have any questions, or want to interview me, I'd be glad to do that for you and your students. I've been on STeemit a while, so I am familiar with it. Email me at Leahstella@gmail.com if you're wanting to get more information ......
Wow stella this is a really nice offer thanks! I'll send you a message, it would be great if you could give me some tips that I could then pass on to my students on tuesday.
well there you go @desertflower , you were touched by a Steemit "whale"
Your students will be impressed.
Full $TEEM Ahead!
@streetstyle
hello @desertflower
I took a long time that I would love to learn German, happy to have you in the community now, maybe someday you can do classes for us
have a good stay 8]
Great to see fellow Austrians on steemit :-)
Hey nice to meet you :) Auch aus Wien?
Use the rewards as an education fund that can be used to enrich the students in a way you see fit.
That would be a really good solution, but we have agreed that the legal aspects are too complicated to evaluate for such a small student project, so we will simply return all rewards that are made during the course to the owners of Steemit.
Welcome Stephi, it's a really nice project you're bringing here. Wish you and your student the best !
Desertflower, you are as beautiful as your username. Let us know how the project works out!
Thanks, yes I'll give you an update either on tuesday or on friday after our little Steemit project is over.
Thank you for all the friendly comments! I am really looking forward to the project next week, I'm sure my students will enjoy it as much as I do and share my positive impression of Steemit.
If you have any ideas of what could be part of our Steemit project, just let me know.
Things like Steemit are what we should be teaching young people in school
Lovely personalty you have and keep it up as you are making nation so we love you and we appreciate you
You should probably decide first what to do with the proceeds of the posts you will make. There will inevitably be $ made. You could allow the student who's work gets the most votes or most $ or some combination to choose a charity that the $ is donated to. There are plenty of fellow Steemers that could help you get the funds where you want them to go.
We (principal and I) have agreed that the legal aspects are too complicated to evaluate for such a small student project, so we will simply return all rewards that are made by students during the course to the owners of Steemit.
Ideally, every student should of course keep their rewards, but I will try to shape the tasks in a way that don't make this a competition between students for rewards. Outside of the classroom they can use Steemit as much as they want of course :)
nice to see another fellow teacher on here! I'm a teacher from Australia :) would be interesting to see how it goes for you!
Welcome and good luck with the classes!
Welcome you seem like a very interesting person, its a pleasure to have you aboard!
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Thank You wang. Very kind of you to let me know! I am still new to all this, but I think I am starting to figure it out :)
Responses to Wang help me gauge whether new introductions are genuine. =^^= Welcome, DesertFlower!
@wang greets everyone....he's probably a bot. Reminds me of Tom on myspace.com, he was everyones friend back then, but now, haven't heard a peep from Tom. Anyway, welcome aboard, and it is great that your students will not only learn and improve their writing skills, but will also be introduced to the world of finance, cryptocurrency and the new world paradigm of Decentralization.
Oh I see, yes I remember Tom :D
@wang is a bot
welcome desertflower!