BIP Day 10: Finding examples to use in your course can be a never-ending time sink -- Here's four ways to get them in minutes
Plus see the Day 10 progress on the Atomic Courses Blueprint
Since 2016, I've created 11 courses, while having a demanding job, a wife and two kids.
I had little time to spare. And I didn't do it by burning the midnight oil. Nor did I have a team to help me. Instead, I discovered ways to create efficiently.
Finding good examples was the slowest step.
So I learned strategies to find them fast. Here are the four you can use every time:
Strategy 1: Your own work
If you've done the task before, show your own work as an example of how it is done well. This isn't egotistical at all. It's good teaching.
Strategy 2: Your client's work
Have you taught anyone before? Do you have their work? If so, use those examples to teach your topic. If you don't have their work but can reconstruct it, that helps too.
Strategy 3: Work you admire
Not all examples have to be from you or your students. You can source examples from other's work as well. When you can find your concept "in the wild" it shows how widely applicable it is.
Strategy 4: Create the example
If you don't have an example, create it. In the course I'm building now, I didn't have an example of how to use the Three Part Formula for outlining a course. So I applied the formula to a future course and used that as my example.
Finding good examples can be hard but it gets much easier when you have these four options.
Want to see the progress I made in building the Atomic Courses Blueprint?
As I got ready to post my screenshot of the days work, I could see a few flaws to fix when I edit. You’ll probably notice some as well. I thought about deleting this screenshot and posting a new one with the fixes in place.
But then I thought, “This is work in progress. It’s not meant to be perfect.”
Imperfect screenshot below.
P.S. The next update will be on Monday.
