How Supporting Webucation Can Help Your Business in Tough Economic Times

Webucator: Zac Gordon

Let me tell you a story.

You, as a newly knighted webucator have begun chatting up folks about how it would be great if we were able to increase the standards of web education.  In your discussions, a friend of yours named Sally turns you on to a friend of hers named Sue, who teaches IT stuff in a school.  “I think they do a little bit of web design in there,” Sally remarks.  You should talk to Sue.

“Hey!  That guy Jeff Brown was talking about having guest speakers in the classroom the other night at Refresh,” you remember.  So Sue and you get to chatting and she would love for you to come and talk about some of the cool jobs and projects going on in the real world.  “But not too much,” Sue warns, “cause I don’t really know that much about web design and neither do my students.”

No matter.  It’s all good.  You just want to help the kiddies, so you talk with your open-minded boss about how you would like to take half a day to go talk to high school IT students about your company and the cool work you do.

After late night hours, tedious revisions, and a little bit of winging it, you have your presentation set, and you head off to the school on a Friday morning.

“This is horrible,” you think to yourself as students stare into your presentation with blank faces.  But its really not.  You have just been out of school long enough to remember what it was like to sit through 7 periods of classes.