Blog post by Tina Winterlik © 2011
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com
So I started a
New Project last weekend and it's
turning out bigger than I thought. It's
going great but I have these
8 blogs I'm now trying to maintain.
Since I feel fully qualified and confident to teach Social Media I developed a course. It's an online course so that anyone, anywhere in the world can take it.
Tina's Social Media Workshop
http://tinazsocialmediaworkshop.blogspot.com
That's super exciting for me. I love the idea of being able to share what I have learned and know that I can really help someone promote their ideas, their dreams, their passions.
It's going to be a
great course since it's very simple. I have actually taught many people how to use computers and different programs.
I actually didn't even touch a computer until I was 28 that was in
1991. I had returned to school and enrolled in college as a
mature student at
Selkirk College.
That's when I took
computer science, and
I was scared to death, and was
amazed they'd even let me touch a computer. I thought for sure I was going to wreck something.
Like I said
I've taught alot of people and I know those feeling of being scared or nervous, so I am totally supportive. The first time I helped teach computer programs started at
Langara in 1993, I taught some of the students how to use
PhotoStyler which came just before
PhotoShop. Someone had lost or taken the manual. I spent about a week before school actually started learning the program. I LOVED IT!
I guess that's why
I LOVE Photoshop so much. Mr.Larrigan, my instructor then asked me if I would teach what I had learned to one of the students and when anyone got stuck I would jump in and help. That's how it started.
Then I worked for
Triathlon Mapping and we used
high resolution scanners to
scan aerial photography. Pretty boring in that you don't get to manipulate it, but super cool because in a way your flying. I scanned about 30,000 diaps(aerial photos) in the 4 years I worked there, and I saw so many great places, from really high altitudes to pretty low where you could see cars, and houses and things.
It was like Google Maps way before Google Maps.
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Anyways, that was
part of my job, to
teach the new people who came to
learn how to scan and run the computers. I taught
young people, just out of high school and
I taught old (the darkroom technician who lost his job in the darkroom when it was phased out because of the digital age and the new scanners)
So teaching is not new to me.
I've also spent the last 8 years homeschooling my daughter, so that is a daily routine of teaching.
So I have the
lesson plan laid out, and I'm doing my
Social Media Marketing, trying to get the word out, and I
hope you'll help and spread the word for me.
I'd really appreciate it and tweet and facebook this.
There's going to be
10 videos,
12 actually but the first two modules are Skype and Paypal and they are
free, that's so I can get the
person registered and make sure they can
participate using Skype and so they can pay with Paypal.
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So as I was saying there are
10 videos and
each has an assignment that
students do on their own time.
I want to have
different class times. The
first session will be
late evening classes and
my target market is moms. I figure
if the classes are late then they have a chance to get the kids to bed, and
grab a cup of tea or glass of wine ;) and s
it down in the comfort of their own home and join us as we have a
LOT OF FUN discussing and learning Social Media.
Sometimes being a mom can be very isolating, but if you can
Blog and do
Facebook and
Twitter, well then you have an
opportunity to reach out to people and
they can reach back.
Pretty Wonderful.
You can do it all in a positive, life changing, and insightful way that really can help the whole world. Seriously, there's been
so many examples lately of the power of Social Media.
So
let's teach everyone and
Let's Give Them the Power!! Let's Give them a Voice!!
Okay,
well I better get crackin' and go to work as my little one is in bed and it's my chance. I've been pulling these all nighters...3 am...but it's worth it.
Oh I almost forgot I'm having a
Contest too! All you have to do is
"Like" my facebook page for
Tina'z Social Media Workshop and you'll be
entered to for a chance to Win a Free Social Media Workshop. A very cool deal if I say so myself.
Click here to "Like" my Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tinaz-Social-Media-Workshop/143753222358123
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Can't wait to share it all. Sleep tight all!
