My Top Seven Skillshare Classes

Have you ever just wanted to learn a specific skill like how to make you doodles into works of art, how to cook meatballs or how to design your own habits? Then look no further than Skillshare.

Skillshare is a platform that like it says in the names allows teachers for all over the world to share their skills from.This week I will be talking about the top seven skillshare classes that will get you learning a wide range of skills that can help you daily.

1. The first class that I absolutely love Digital Illustration: Doodles to Design. This class teaches you how to take your doodles and make them into cool works of art. The instructor is Jon Burgerman an award winning illustrator based out of New York. I highly recommend this class because of the way it brings out your inner child through creating doodles and then teaches you how to make them into works of art.

After You are done creating your works of art. The second class from Skillshare that you should take is Get Stuff Done Like a Boss- Design Your Workflow and Double Your Productivity in 21 Days. This class is all about learning how to be more productive through developing cornerstone habits. The instructor is Tiago Forte and he is really good at breaking down the ways you can things done through developing habits and introducing different tools in order to be more productive. I highly recommend this course.

After you have gotten things done the next step you might be a little hungry so the next skillshare class that I recommend is Show Us Your Balls: Meatball Making with the Meatball Shop. This  class is all about creating your own meatball inspired dish. The instructor is super chef Daniel Holzman and he goes through the entire process of creating your own sauce and the meatballs of course. He gives many valuable tips on how to get creative with meatballs. I highly recommend this course for anyone looking to spice up their meals.

After you have filled your belly with those delicious meatballs you have just made, you might be in the mood to play some video games. Because of this, I recommend Make Games From Scratch: Getting Started With Unity this class teaches you how to create your own video game using the Unity platform. And the best part is, that it involves zero coding. The instructor is Brandon Wu, and he goes through the entire process of making a building your own virtual world. So If you have ever wanted to make your own video game this class is definitely for you.

Last but not and this is my favorite Skillshare that I have ever taken and its called Hey, Cool Shirt: Designing Effective T-Shirt Graphics this class is taught Chris Delorenzo of the awesome clothing company Johnny Cupcakes. I love this class because it takes you through the entire process of designing your own bad ass t-shirt. I highly recommend this class because not only does it help with design but it shows you technical things related to t shirt designs and also how to effectively brand something. I highly recommend taking this class. So, what’s you  favorite skillshare classes?

Yours in Awesome Learning,

Janeille

My Favorite MOOC Platforms (From Around the World)

If you are like me and you love MOOC’s. I am here to tell you that all over the world MOOC’s are democratizing education and making learning fun again. As a lifelong student (that has just graduated from college)I feel like I have enjoyed learning more after college than during college.

Here are the platforms that I’ve come across that originate from all over the world:

1. Future Learn  https://www.futurelearn.com/– This is like the British Version of Coursera. I just love that wicked awesome British accent when I am taking a course.

2. Coursera https://www.coursera.org/– While this is an American platform it offers classes from mainly Ivy league universities and State Universities from the United States. This is pretty much the most popular MOOC platforms right now but lots of other platforms from around the world are coming out of the woodwork to steal a little of its shine.

3. Open University- http://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/german

This is the home of free learning and what I enjoy about this MOOC platform are the articles that come along with them. The writing is pretty top notch. While its not completely free I still think its a cool platform.

4. http:www.iversity.org– This is a German platform (not basketball player Allen Iverson’s city 🙂 that offers a lot of courses on critical thinking and business. I like this platform because it gives a very European perspective on a lot of topics. While, I think it lacks the depth of other platforms its well on its way to being a competitor for the future

So as you can see there are MOOC’s and MOOC platforms all over the world.

What is your favorite MOOC platform and why?

Yours in Awesome Learning,

Janeille