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Anyway good luck.
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Many thanks and good luck!
Also I've added an Elixir course promotion to:
Anyway checkout the Elixir Conference talk on Nerves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=118-g0ODfgg&feature=youtu.be
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The process I finally settled on was: 1. read various books, and make notes on the topic for a particular video. 2. break the notes down into bullet points, I used the TaskPaper app, for this and highly recommend it. 3. make an intro slide and do a head shot video talking about the points in this video. I found doing this unscripted gave a more natural feel. 4. then record the content of the lecture, this in my case was a screen video of me writing code. I found that if I was talking at the sametime I made too many mistakes. 5. I then edit this content and remove the typos and errors. 6. record the voice over for the video. - this was quite slow I would use the bullet points to talk about what was happening on the screen. - I found I would record a 5/10 seconds of voice over and then position it within the video so that it would make sense. - there was a lot of editing to get the video and voice to match up nicely.
My course style evolved over a few months but I'm happy with the approach, although some of the earlier videos make me cringe a bit.
As for equipment, I bought a studio kit from amazon on black friday, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Excelvan-Photography-Continuous-Back...
I also bought a logitech C920 usb camera... not that happy with it as using a mac I also needed to change the webcam settings with another app.
Finally I used a Samson CO1U condenser mic, which was excellent: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samson-CO1U-Pro-Microphone-Headphone...
I haven't made much money out of the videos, even though I have around 1680 students. The nature of online courses is that it is very "coupon" based and you need to constantly push and repackage it.
Would I do it again... yep... am building a new course as we speak. Good luck
All in the town were still asleep, When the sun came up with a shout and a leap. In the lonely streets unseen by man, A little dog danced. And the day began.
All his life he'd been good, as far as he could, And the poor little beast had done all that he should. But this morning he swore, by Odin and Thor And the Canine Valhalla—he'd stand it no more!
So his prayer he got granted—to do just what he wanted, Prevented by none, for the space of one day. "Jam incipiebo, sedere facebo," In dog-Latin he quoth, "Euge! sophos! hurray!"
He fought with the he-dogs, and winked at the she-dogs, A thing that had never been heard of before. "For the stigma of gluttony, I care not a button!" he Cried, and ate all he could swallow—and more.
He took sinewy lumps from the shins of old frumps, And mangled the errand-boys—when he could get 'em. He shammed furious rabies, and bit all the babies, And followed the cats up the trees, and then ate 'em!"
They thought 'twas the devil was holding a revel, And sent for the parson to drive him away; For the town never knew such a hullabaloo As that little dog raised—till the end of that day.
When the blood-red sun had gone burning down, And the lights were lit in the little town, Outside, in the gloom of the twilight grey, The little dog died when he'd had his day.
One of the things to do is to minimize the number of choices you have. Then try and reduce your distractions e.g. tidy up your work area, go minimalist.
One of the best ways to avoid procrastination is to use the Pomodoro technique http://pomodorotechnique.com/ This is one of the recommendations from Coursera's Learning how to Learn course: https://class.coursera.org/learning-003
Finally you can try and develop a habit to Do One Thing: https://emson.co.uk/2015/01/do-one-thing/ (sorry self plugged post).
The premiss was to create an invoice tool, that I could quickly run from the command line and didn't use a database.
Anyway take a look and let me know what you think.
https://github.com/emson/invoicerb
I wrote it because I used an invoice app, that went bust and I needed something really simple to send out invoices and I was in complete control of.
Also I didn't want to use a database so just used Ruby DSL meta files that described my invoice. Admittedly it probably needs a bit more work... but it was fun to do.