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3d • Communities
What's something you believed about community building when you started that you no longer believe today?
I'll go first...
I used to think quiet people weren't engaged.
Then I met Dana.
Dana sat in the back of my classroom.
She wasn't disruptive.
She wasn't raising her hand every five minutes.
She wasn't the student chatting before class or hanging around after class.
Honestly, by October, I still wasn't sure how she felt about me as a teacher.
She was just... quiet.
Then Halloween happened.
Without telling me, she made over 100 masks of my face for the entire freshman class to wear. 😂😭
The school resource officer thought they were making fun of me.
Dana was horrified. "No! We love Miss Ripple."
I had absolutely no idea.
None.
The student I thought was sitting quietly in the back not saying much had been paying attention the entire time.
That experience changed something for me.
Now when people talk about "lurkers" in communities, I think about Dana.
Because quiet doesn't always mean disconnected.
Quiet doesn't always mean uninterested.
Quiet doesn't always mean they aren't learning.
Sometimes people are still deciding if it's safe.
Sometimes they're observing.
Sometimes they're listening.
Sometimes they're getting enormous value and never telling you.
And sometimes...
the people you think are paying the least attention surprise you the most.
Now I'm curious...
What's something you believed about community building when you started that experience proved wrong?
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What's something you believed about community building when you started that you no longer believe today?
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