Complete Your Class Listing or Application

Pick Your Topic + Project, then Create Your Class!

Group Collaboration:
Group Collaboration:

You'll get the most out of this class if you collaborate with your peers - they'll give you honest, yet supportive, feedback on your class idea and help you improve it!

Share your creative skill / project idea and your class listing (once you've created a local one or applied to teach an online class) with your Group. Get feedback from each other and gather any additional resources that your peers might have to share to help you build out your project.

Project Milestones

You'll start by identifying the creative skill you want to share, and you'll dream up a hands-on project your students can do to learn that skill. Once you've done that, you'll get advice on how to craft a compelling class description and teacher bio, and you'll be ready to list your class!

Project Milestone #1 due Tues. 11/13

What you should have completed and shared on your Project page by this date:
1. The skill that you're going to teach (keep it creative!)
2. The project that you could have your students do to learn the skill that you're teacing (think of it like this way: your project = end result of having a skill, i.e., 5k views in 72 hrs // digital media)
3. OPTIONAL: Generate resources (i.e., videos, podcasts, templates, etc.) that will help you students learn your skill and complete their projects
Final Project Milestone due Fri. 11/16
1. Create a local class listing here
2. OR apply to teach an online class here
Share the link to your local class listing OR the class description /curriculum / resources for your online class on your Projects page.
Project Milestone #1: Dream up the topic + project for your class
What you should have completed and shared on your Project page by this date:
1. The skill that you're going to teach (keep it creative!)
2. The project that you could have your students do to learn the skill that you're teacing (think of it like this way: your project = end result of having a skill, i.e., 5k views in 72 hrs // digital media)
3. OPTIONAL: Generate resources (i.e., videos, podcasts, templates, etc.) that will help you students learn your skill and complete their projects
Final Project Milestone: Class Listing or Application Complete
Final Deliverable:
1. Create a local class listing here
2. OR apply to teach an online class here
Share the link to your local class listing OR the class description/curriculum/resources for your online class on your Projects page.

Additional Resources

BONUS: Pre-Class Prep

Before the class kick-off, you'll be in excellent shape for the class if you've already identified your creative skill and the project you'll have your students do to learn it. Just make sure to share it on your Project page to get feedback from me and other students.

Resources:
- Kickstarter categories (these are creative skills!)
- Great Skillshare classes: Build a Terrarium Like a Pro, The Art of the Cold Call, Positive Persuasive Speaking Techniques, Machine + Hand-Sewing Basics, Node.js: An Introduction for Beginners, Humor Writing: Become the Next David Sedaris, Explain An Idea: A Creative Workout for Your Mind, Learn Anything on Your Own, Making and Selling Ads that Get Shared, Build a Creative and Visual Brand Strategy
REQUIRED: "Must Reads" for the class:

Resources:

For Milestone #1 -
- Pre-recorded video lecture: Topic + Class Description
- Groups: how to make the best use of them for this class
- Learn By Doing: Making Your Classes Hands-On
- How Project-Based Learning Builds 21st-Century Skills (edutopia)
- Hyper Island
- Collaborative Learning (Huffington Post)
For Milestone #2 -
- Pre-recorded video lecture - Your Role As a Teacher
- The Essential Elements of a Class Listing
- 8 Tips for New Skillshare Teachers
- Featured Classes: What Are They?
- CASE STUDIES: Great Online Skillshare Teachers

Jackie Roeder

Owner, Balance Your Books, LLC

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