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

GTD with Todoist

” Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. ”
-Paul Meyer

This last couple of weeks for me has been really productive. I credit that to my use of the app todist. This is an app that enables you to create to do list’s The neat thing about it is that it is sync-able across my cell phone and desktop. What really sets it apart from the others for me is its ability to do recurring dates and this really makes it handy with grocery lists that I can set for every week and also reminder to call people and even to wash my hair 🙂 .

Also, its use of the creation of tasks via projects makes it really valuable to set goals . You can create tasks for each goal with a date and time that can be used keep a project on task and also to get things done within a project. You can also collaborate with other people in getting things done in.

I create projects for everything . My grocery lists, for managing my relationship followups with other people and even when to wash my hair. This app is amazingly useful and I am amazed the current version of it is free. If it wasn’t I would happily pay for it because it is well worth it.

Overall, this app does so much. It is compatible with the GTD system and if you are into being highly productive it is well worth it.  Shot out to Tiago Forte  who introduced this app when I was taking the Skillshare class called “Getting Things Done like a Boss”. In this class he teaches you how to not only organize your time but how to organize it so that you reflect on all your goals so that you getting the right things done.

Check it out here:  http://www.skillshare.com/classes/entrepreneurship/Get-Stuff-Done-Like-A-Boss-Design-Your-Workflow-and-Double-Your-Productivity-in-21-Days/1524940083?via=search

What productivity tools do you use?

Yours in Awesome Learning,

Janeille

You Dawg It’s Past Your Bedtime: Design Your Own Habit

The next step on my learning journey involves Skill share, an online platform that allows anyone to take classes on various topics  including business, design and even cooking . Recently, I took a class on Skillshare called , Design Your Own habits: Behaviour Design. It is taught by Tiago Forte, he a productivity coach that helps people to develop habits that allow them to be more productive and overall more effective in getting things done in life.

I must say that this class was really helpful because it helped me to look at the current habits that I have in my life and what habits I would want to develop later in order to improve my overall effectiveness in work and more broadly in life. If you have a look below you can see what I worked on throughout the class.

As you can see above, the habit I developed was to go to bed by 10 PM every night. This was easier said than done. As someone that likes to stay up late I found this challenging. However, I found that going through the Design Your Own Habit exercises ,I found that if I focused on my trigger with was listening to my alarm it became easier and also by looking at my small wins and closers this helped to make it easier to stick to my habit a lot because I didn’t feel like a failure if I didn’t 100% do my habit sometimes. I am on day five of it, but I have not faltered yet (fingers crossed).

All in all I think this class is worth the effort and the teacher Tiago is really invested in students. He even took the time to evaluate my habit sheet and give me tips on how to make my habit more specific. For an online class this level engagement of students is really something. He even has giveaways every month to students that post something new based on his criteria.

Check out the class here: http://www.skillshare.com/classes/entrepreneurship/Design-Your-Habits-A-Hands-On-Introduction-to-Behavior-Design/978368389?via=similar-classes

So what habit would you want to develop that you think would have a huge impact on your life?

Yours in Awesome Learning,

Janeille

Learning is Life and Life is Learning

Life is learning and learning is life. I believe that the ability to learn and grow from is the most important thing to survival and having a meaningful existence. With that said, this blog will be a digital curation of all of my learning adventures involving  MOOC’s (Massively Open Online Courses). For now I will be focusing on the MOOC platforms Skillshare, General Assembly, and Coursera. I will share what I have learned, my opinions on classes I take what I like and like and don’t like as well.

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Skillshare (www.skillshare.com) is also a really great platform  because you can take up to 5 hours of classes per month for free so I will be taking full advantage of this by taking an average of one class per week (each class is roughly an hour). That is at least four classes and month.

Then there is Coursera (www.coursera.com), the mother of them all, these are university classes that are offered online by some of the top universities in the world and gives a lot of exposure to college courses and are ideal for students who want to test out different fields to find out what they are interested.

Online learning can provide so many opportunities for exposure to different fields and I absolutely love taking classes and gaining new insights and I want to share and curate classes that I love.

Yours in Awesome Learning

Janeille