Interactive Course Content in Minutes - Microlearning Master Makers
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Why provide interactive content to social media but not to learners? Make it right in minutes with science-based teaching and free edtech.
Interactive Course Content in Minutes - Microlearning Master Makers
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Why provide interactive content to social media but not to learners? Make it right in minutes with science-based teaching and free edtech.
Course overview
This Dark Classroom Makerspace has one goal:
Make your course content interactive. Right now. Take course wares you’ve already created alongside new ideas and transform them into true teaching artifacts! Within 2 weeks, you’ll launch stronger courses faster, saving money and work, while cultivating powerful testimonials.
What is a Dark Classroom makerspace?
If artists get studios, and tradespersons get workshops, teachers and learning experience creators deserve makerspaces. Even in digital creation, you can make yourself at home.
We provide...
+ Tools in the kitchen: Tech tools, master's degree-level theory and terms put into practice.
+ Salons in the dining room: Student-driven, question-guided problem solving discussions both live and in the content.
+ Private (or partnered) work spaces in the bedrooms: A shell to create and the products that come from them.
+ Galleries in the living room: Guided, cohort-driven live sessions to collaborate with tools and tactics for our best possible courses.
+ Shared ingredients in the pantry: Repository of wares and products students are willing to let their peers use.
Who is this course for
01
Educators and course builders on Thinkific, Coursera, Maven, TalentLMS and more who deserve to be promoted in a free market course catalog.
02
Edupreneurs and free market teachers who want quality course content and resources to generate revenue with the research to back it up.
03
Transformative, nontraditional educators who want to use technology to revolutionize learning experiences.
You'll get Dr. Pyrate's 5 equitable economies of teaching
Economy of Work
Upgrade pre-existing content with minimal effort. One transformed piece of content is inventory for fixed course resources; dynamic parts of live sessions; and marketing materials, such as a lead magnet. Just like this interactive diagram of Dr. Pyrate’s 5 equitable economies.
Economy of Mastery
A reusable workbook: Joining a cohort crew in a makerspace means you will absorb at least a Master's-level teaching degree skill and learn methods that are research-based in practical theory-to-practice.
Economy of Time
You’ll trade content in a new or pre-existing course in moments and experience how dynamic live agendas that are student-driven become a breeze. See it in action with models of interactive microlearning content as we go.
Economy of Money
Accounts, free how-to guides, and practice to minimize money as a barrier to learning: Explore the overlooked features in tech you use daily and earn the know-how of brand new free tools. Practice with your cohort to collect invaluable tech skills.
Economy of Perspective
Powerful testimonials from powerhouse content presentations: Your interactive content will be accessible. Your cohort crew will perception check their experience, and your course crew will recruit for future enrollment. Each course iteration is better than before.
Interactive Course Content in Minutes - Microlearning Master Makers
Course syllabus
Week 1
#1 Re-evaluating Your Tech for Educational Purposes
#2 Social Annotating in Hypothes.is
#3 Microlearning in 7Taps: Chunking
Week 2
Week 3
#4 Interactive Text in H5P
#5 Interactive Media in H5P
Gallery and Graduation
Bonus
More Makerspaces: Extension for Exemplar Educators
Defy normal in minutes.
An example text-only glossary transformed into an active term-to-definition matching activity.
What people are saying
Stephanie M. Lopez-Neyman
Dr. John Schmidt
Meet your instructor
Dr. Stacy Greathouse
Dark Classroom Founder and Piratical Pedagogue
Schools for teachers were called "normal colleges."
Dr. Pyrate graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 9 months with a Master's degree. She earned a doctorate in pirates, pedagogy (the science and art of teaching and learning), and children's literature from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.
Bottom line: Normal teaching isn't good enough.
After 3 decades as an instructional designer, faculty, teacher for ages 3-83, standardized test scorer, community education volunteer, academic accrediting contributor, career counselor, and subject matter expert, the realities of toxic normal created a piratical pedagogue. She is proudly neurodivergent and so are her mentorship methods.
At the end of the day, she knows: Free market educators are the best people to defy "we've always done it that way" teaching with the best strategies that revive curiosity.
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Interactive Course Content in Minutes - Microlearning Master Makers
Course schedule
2 weeks: 6 - 8 hours per week
Makerspace prep
2 hours per week
Prepare for makerspace magic with the training tools and interactive content built into the course.
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm MST
These are the makerspaces. Applied theory where students produce artifacts alongside peers and continue that trajectory into personal projects.
Weekly projects
1.5 hours per week
Take the makerspace into your individual endeavors: some products take moments and others might require up to 2 hours.
Not only will you have immediately useful artifacts, the gifts of guidance to your cohort can produce and earn powerful testimonials.
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5 Equitable Economies of Teaching - mastery without a Master's degree
Chances are, if you're on the open market as a nontraditional teacher, side-gig educator, you are passionate about your expertise, want learners to benefit from this passion, and want to enjoy the returns on your expertise.
The science and art of teaching is an expertise, too.
This interactive resource explains 5 equitable economies of teaching: time, work, perspective, mastery, and money.
Discover the economies and learn more about a makerspace for creating interactive course content in minutes.
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Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
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