Making All My Notes Public 🤦♂️ - Issue #14
Hi y'all 👋
Learning of the week: You can send your ethernet signal through your electricity outlets 🤯
I ordered two of those plug/ethernet bad boys to get rid of my latency issue with my WiFi router.
Shoutout to K for the recommendation 🙌
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Topics this week:
🤦♂️ Making all my notes public
🤷♂️ Why I quit my sabbatical after 4 weeks
📚 How to publish your first book // h/t @julietrelstad @fostercowriting
🏝 The Remote conference you shouldn't miss #REMOTEbyGitLab
You Can Access All My Notes (All of Them) 🤦♂️
Open Source projects share their code for free.
Why?
Content is cheap. Implementation is expensive.
I think the same can work for online education.
Completion rates of self-paced courses are super low (~3-6%).
On the other hand facilitation can move the needle for students.
As a course creator you are building a curriculum:
- 🔍 Researching topics
- 📊 Finding examples
- 📝 Synthesizing learnings
I am storing all of this information in a structured Notion page.
As of today I started giving it away for free👇
🏝 Remote
Remote Workbook: An ever-expanding (and FREE) resource for remote leaders 🏝
For now it's an experiment. I hope it does not backfire 🤦♂️
In the coming weeks I will document my thinking and processes:
- Break entire course content down into smaller topics
- Organize topic-specific mini workshops
- Prepare agenda based on participant need
- Create shareable assets
- Re-use assets for non-workshop distribution
- Learn what works and improve content
- Rinse & repeat
🤔 I'd love to connect if you have thoughts around this topic.
Just participated in a Remote Team Communication workshop facilitated by @artlapinsch - and it was great! Check out his slides and additional resources here: https://t.co/qUU4EoqoeX - great ideas, great tools, recommended :)
— Valentina Thörner (@ValeDeOro) June 9, 2021
Why I Quit My Sabbatical: The Online Education Opportunity
A couple of friends have asked me a few questions over and over again:
- What are online courses?
- Why are YOU building courses?
- Was OnDeck Course Creators worth it?
Instead of answering it on a one-off basis I put it into a 10-minute blog post (with lots of images & tweets) 👇
Becoming an Online Course Creator: From Sabbatical to Teaching Online
This blog post explains how I went from enjoying my sabbatical to becoming an online course creator in the span of 4 months.
📚 How to Publish as an Indie Writer
On a totally random note: Next week I'm interviewing a seasoned author on the Foster Writing podcast.
I'm super excited.
Her name is Julie Trelstad and we'll talk about the 80/20 of publishing if you are an indie author.
Dreaming of publishing your first 📖?
Sign up and join us next week 👇
We’re handing over the mic to Foster member @artlapinsch to chat with the author @julietrelstad about:
— Foster (@0xFoster) June 9, 2021
• Book publishing basics
• Common misconceptions about book publishing
• The 80/20 rule of writing books
Join us Tuesday, June 15th @ 1 PM EThttps://t.co/Kn1ukw99tn
THE Remote Work Conference You Should Attend
Also... GitLab - the world's leading remote co - is hosting a free virtual conference about remote work.
I signed up already.
If it's of interest to you, check it out 👇
We're doing it 🙌
— Darren Murph (@darrenmurph) June 2, 2021
👏 The greatest minds in the remote + workplace design community 🤩
👏 Sharing their journeys and blueprints with the world at #REMOTEbyGitLab 🌐
Do. Not. Miss. This. 🎟️👇https://t.co/BdglmyjqVX pic.twitter.com/TsSVdkCpvc
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🙏 Would love to hear from you. What's up on your end?
Stay happy, stay healthy 🙌
Art
