Size Matters

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!