{"id":1430,"date":"2013-12-31T16:58:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T00:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2013-12-31T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T00:58:45","slug":"2nd-udemy-course-1st-one-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/2nd-udemy-course-1st-one-done","title":{"rendered":"My 2nd Udemy Course Is The 1st One Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stop<\/a>Over a year ago, I started to put together an online class about Nutrition.<\/span><\/p>\n

I told Udemy it could be ready in 6 weeks. I was a seasoned college professor and thought I could quickly put together the syllabus and start filling in the \u201clecture\u201d content and do the videos. HA!
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My first setback was when I discovered that my old Sony camcorder was not \u201cgood enough\u201d anymore as it didn\u2019t do HD recording.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I had to figure how else was I going to do the video since the courses have to be video. I tried different things and kind of just gave up for a while because nothing was working.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I got a new [and much needed] computer with a good camera and microphone. But first I had to learn the new operating system as I went from a very old Mac to the newest one.<\/span><\/p>\n

After fiddling with lights, etc. my decision was to do an \u201ceasy\u201d PowerPoint presentation with voice over. Alas, it turns out there\u2019s a glitch in the newest version of PowerPoint for Mac so that when you record a voice over on PowerPoint it won\u2019t save the narration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having already bought Keynote – I decided \u2013 \u201cokay I guess it\u2019s time to learn Keynote\u201d [but I didn\u2019t really want to do that.] Luckily, someone teaching on Udemy did a course on Keynote and I learned how to use it and started back to work on the Nutrition course.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the middle of all of this – and teaching an online course for a local college – I finally found the Lab puppy I had been looking for. Which, if you have ever done puppy things, meant house training, taking care of, and all those other puppy events.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0[I look back now and wonder how did I ever manage to do the puppy stuff again. It had been many years since I had a puppy as the last dog I had was adopted when he was three.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Working away at the course and other life stuff, my hard drive crashed. Yes it was a relatively new computer, only a few months old, and all was under warranty. It is a laptop – but getting it fixed meant having to keep going back to the Apple Store because there were constant glitches that prevented my being able to get online. And I really needed to be online because I had to download my storage from the cloud backup.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, the entire operating system had to be re-downloaded and re-installed.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in the midst of all of this, it turns out I had a puppy who did not like being left home alone – so each time I had to run down to the Apple Store I had to get a puppy sitter. Luckily my neighbors could keep her a few times, and a good friend of mine was in town visiting her son and she had the time to come over and puppy sit. I am so thankful for good friends\u2026
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During this time, the course on Nutrition kept growing because I realized I had more to say than I originally planned. And honestly, by then I got sick of the whole process because that course reminded me of the problems with the puppy and the computer.
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And, because it was again \u00a0nearing that time of year, I had to get ready to teach my other online class for the local college. \u00a0I decided instead to do a very short Udemy course on stress.\u00a0 [Gee – I wonder where that topic came from.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though it was to be a short course and it basically is, I do not have a linear brain and it\u2019s very hard for me to follow a template or a pattern so formatting the course sections took longer then it would for most others.
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And middle of all of this, I upgraded to the Mavericks operating system. And that meant there were updates to most everything on my computer including Keynote. ARGHHHHHHHHH<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not even getting into weather related issues, my ability to procrastinate, or the death of a friend\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

To make this rather long story much shorter, I basically decided I was just going to finish this thing, publish it, and see what happens!
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I was literally getting sick and tired of working with Keynote, fiddling with having to make things kind of similar from lecture to lecture, and all of that – so I recorded stopped fiddling, recorded the slides with voiceover, exported into QuickTime, uploaded the files to Udemy, finished all the other little thingies like descriptions and all that and hit publish – basically without really reviewing the whole thing because I was that sick of it.
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But it\u2019s done\u2026and I feel a sense of relief….<\/span><\/p>\n

I had taken my own advice to Stop Stressing About Stress<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

And maybe, just maybe, I can get back to the 1st<\/sup> course, the one on Nutrition\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n

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