Or maybe I should say length matters.
I am a new teacher on SkillShare.com, and my first course, Beginner Glass Mosaics is live on the SkillShare website. Since I'm new at this teaching business, I had no idea what I was doing. Don't get me wrong, I know how to mosaic, but filming, voiceover, editing, and posting it all online in a captivating course is a totally different thing.
As it turns out, no one wants to watch someone grout for 20 minutes. My course was long and boring. Fortunately, SkillShare will let you edit a course after it's published. I was able to ask for some tough love feedback from friends and other teachers, and I took my class from 44 minutes down to 24 minutes!
My videos are much shorter and concise. They have less pauses and repetitive information, and the course is overall a faster pace. Yay for me! Thanks to some great feedback and honesty. Sometimes you have to take the bitter pill.
Yes, size does matter. In this case, shorter is better!
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Learn Something New!
I recently discovered a website called SkillShare.com where you can learn all kinds of things in encapsulated online courses taught by people like you and me. People who are literally sharing their skills. How cool is that? And that's not all! Anyone can be a teacher and earn royalties when people take their classes. I said, "sign me up!"
If you know me at all, you know I do all kinds of things. I draw, sew, mosaic, make jewelry, and there's more, but I'm not going to list it all here. What should I teach? I decided to search through the SkillShare courses to see what was out there. I didn't find anyone teaching mosaics. BINGO!
I joined SkillShare with a free 2 month premium membership. I then joined one of their new teacher challenges, which was fantastic! They offer tons of support and resources. They give you deadlines to keep you on track, and award prizes for various things. I won a $20 Amazon gift card for leaving helpful comments for other teachers. You can also win a lot of other cool prizes, like microphones.
I filmed my course using my iPad. I did voice overs on my videos using my Apple headphones and edited using iMovie. I uploaded all of my videos, seven in all, and was finished! They give you templates to created a project and a lesson plan to help you plan your course, and give you tips for marketing your course.
My course is called "Beginner Glass Mosaics: Create a Picture Frame"
Not only was it fun and easy to do, but I'm excited to make more courses. My next course will be about glass cutting tools. Then I plan to do an intermediate course, and an advanced course.
Check out my course, and try out a free trial of SkillShare.com like I did. You might find so many courses you love, you'll want to sign up, and maybe even teach some courses yourself!
One other thing - because I published my course within the teacher challenge one month deadline, I won a free one year Premium SkillShare membership valued at $99. Pretty sweet!
If you know me at all, you know I do all kinds of things. I draw, sew, mosaic, make jewelry, and there's more, but I'm not going to list it all here. What should I teach? I decided to search through the SkillShare courses to see what was out there. I didn't find anyone teaching mosaics. BINGO!
I joined SkillShare with a free 2 month premium membership. I then joined one of their new teacher challenges, which was fantastic! They offer tons of support and resources. They give you deadlines to keep you on track, and award prizes for various things. I won a $20 Amazon gift card for leaving helpful comments for other teachers. You can also win a lot of other cool prizes, like microphones.
I filmed my course using my iPad. I did voice overs on my videos using my Apple headphones and edited using iMovie. I uploaded all of my videos, seven in all, and was finished! They give you templates to created a project and a lesson plan to help you plan your course, and give you tips for marketing your course.
My course is called "Beginner Glass Mosaics: Create a Picture Frame"
Check out my course, and try out a free trial of SkillShare.com like I did. You might find so many courses you love, you'll want to sign up, and maybe even teach some courses yourself!
One other thing - because I published my course within the teacher challenge one month deadline, I won a free one year Premium SkillShare membership valued at $99. Pretty sweet!
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