Are There Any Good Website Teachers Out There?
Good website teachers seem to be in hiding or extinct. Maybe they were never there in the first place.
Maybe it’s just me, but finding someone who can teach a person with few computer skills to build websites has been very difficult.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I strived for months to get into Internet marketing. I knew I would need knowledge of how to build websites, but I got very frustrated in trying to find someone who could teach to a total newbie.
I joined or bought into many programs that promised to deliver the goods, but always fell far short.
Depression was setting in as each new teaching course would eventually evolve into a situation where the technical jargon used was way beyond my knowledge base. I needed to learn, but no one I could find started simply enough for people like me who at the beginning could only use a computer to write a letter, send email or explore the Internet. I was getting very frustrated by it all.
The website teachers I found were mostly young people who had been around computers all their lives and I guess assumed everyone knew what they did. For this newbie, that was certainly not the case. I was behind before I even started.
Some of those self-appointed website teachers seemed to even cop an attitude about the process. They come across as though it was beneath them to stoop to a basic level of learning and insisted in talking in geek-speak, which left a lot of us behind.
There seemed to be an ego attribute to some of the instructors. One even called himself the “newbie guru”.
One story I was told represents some of the ego characteristics associated with some of the current website teachers. When it was suggested by a student that this instructor start at a more elementary beginning point in his courses to allow more people to learn more easily, he retorted:
“Don’t you dare assume you know what a newbie needs! I OWN all the newbies out there!”
That’s the attitude I’m talking about that some website teachers have about those trying to break into the Internet world. Who needs that?
It was at that point that the student mentioned came to a realization. He knew he couldn’t be alone in his struggle to learn about building websites. He felt there had to be literally thousands of people in the same predicament. He vowed to learn all he could about website construction and teach it to others in plain, simple language.
The fates must have been in my favor earlier this year, because just at the point when I was considering chucking the whole Internet thing, I met that former student. He had just launched his new course a few months earlier and hundreds were signing up just like he predicted.
The world became a great place again after I started his course. The teaching style was relaxed and very informative. It was broken into bite-size bits that made it easy to understand and the learning was fast. This former student had become one of the best website teachers on the Internet. He had fulfilled his promise and now thousands were going to benefit.
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