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Is Anyone Teaching THIS in Continuing Ed?

by Jill Carpenter
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I just replied to an ad on a local site where a school is open to adding some additional classes to their spring and summer continuing education.

I asked the lady I talked to if she though anyone would be interested in a Wordpress blogging course.

Basically, I want to offer students to view over the basics in the backend of wordpress, and all of them will sign up to wordpress.com and by the end of the class all of them will have a blog up and going with 2 posts and a page.

Does anyone else do this? Would you have a syllabus to share?

Also, does anyone have any recommendations on how I can provide more value?
#continuing #teaching
  • Profile picture of the author Steven Fullman
    Love your thinking, Jill.

    Great idea! My only comment would be rather
    than "asking if they would be interested...",
    tell them why they NEED you to teach the kids
    how and why WP blogging will enrich their lives.

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Originally Posted by Steven Fullman View Post

      Love your thinking, Jill.

      Great idea! My only comment would be rather
      than "asking if they would be interested...",
      tell them why they NEED you to teach the kids
      how and why WP blogging will enrich their lives.

      Steve
      LOL, I think it will be the "big kids" in these classes. I am new to the area I am living in right now so I just didn't have a clue what has been included in the past classes offered. I do know that morning classes are a new thing. I'm debating doing a second course where the prerequisite is taking the first course. The second course would involve set up of a self hosted blog and maybe some affiliate marketing basics. It sounds like the playing field is pretty open after the conversation I had today.

      Was also considering video taping one of the courses to sell after the fact. Would need to let them know up front about that of course - but while I'm there I'd be silly not to think ahead.
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  • Profile picture of the author absolutelee
    This is a really great idea. I've been working on setting up local seminars introducing local businesses to WP blogs. (Which I will kindly build and post to )
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Silvester
    Jill,

    I do remember a WSO ages ago about this very thing.

    I will try to track down who it was for you...Does anyone
    else remember who it was?

    Take Care,

    Michael Silvester
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    • Profile picture of the author MarkR
      Jill,

      IDEA 1 - By recommending 1) the best templates to use (Flexibility, etc.) and 2) the best plug-ins for various needs (SEO, Widgets, Walls, SPAM, etc.) and maybe how to install them might add the extra value you're looking for.

      IDEA 2 - There are many video-based PLR offers for "How to use WordPress" packages on the WSO forum. Buying and re-branding one as "Jill's" would be great value. People that aren't IMrs (normal people) are amazed by a Camtasia-like videos. Just make it's the latest release (most are for the older release).

      HTH

      Mark
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      • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
        Originally Posted by MarkR View Post

        Jill,

        IDEA 1 - By recommending 1) the best templates to use (Flexibility, etc.) and 2) the best plug-ins for various needs (SEO, Widgets, Walls, SPAM, etc.) and maybe how to install them might add the extra value you're looking for.

        IDEA 2 - There are many video-based PLR offers for "How to use WordPress" packages on the WSO forum. Buying and re-branding one as "Jill's" would be great value. People that aren't IMrs (normal people) are amazed by a Camtasia-like videos. Just make it's the latest release (most are for the older release).

        HTH

        Mark
        Thanks Mark. The basic first course involves free wordpress.com . I'm thinking it can be done in 3 hours - and do the course several times over. The templates/plugins in that particular scenario are limited to the ones on WP. I've been given the ok on using the computer lab so they will be making their blogs on the spot - and won't be caught with additional fees and technicalities.

        I do want to consider a second course which would be more suited to what you're suggesting - how to blog for money. The issues here involve them investing in aweber, hosting, and a domain - and not sure how that will fly with the school.

        Trying to figure out the smoothest way to persuade them towards my new members site that just launched - as there it will be easier to convert. Perhaps a coupon that offers them one month free or something just for participating in the class. I have plenty of screen capture video going in there - and a lot of it is me.

        I like the thought of handing out a free cd or dvd with some PLR on it - would just want to be sure it would be something they find useful.

        I also have a domain for the community which I was thinking to offer subdomains for those who would like to add some kind of marketing and perhaps put together a package to manage their AR's and upload the basic plugins for them.

        So many angles, but need to settle on one that will be most effective.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Hill
      Originally Posted by Michael Silvester View Post

      Jill,

      I do remember a WSO ages ago about this very thing.

      I will try to track down who it was for you...Does anyone
      else remember who it was?

      Take Care,

      Michael Silvester


      Mike, that WSO would be mine

      $2K Per Month Offline... I was thinking of running it again.

      Mike Hill

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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan700
    Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

    I just replied to an ad on a local site where a school is open to adding some additional classes to their spring and summer continuing education.

    I asked the lady I talked to if she though anyone would be interested in a Wordpress blogging course.
    Yes, I'd bet there are a lot of people who'd be interested. Starting out with WP is kind of intimidating. I don't care what people say. It seems the more people say that a piece of software is intuitive (including WP) the harder it is to figure out.
    Have lots of info about tweaking your blog's code and have lots of resources where people can find info. And a teaser in the copy like showing how people can make money with their blogs.
    Once you get past the courses that teach people how to be "better productive" employees there's not much left to choose from.
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