Beginner’s Guide to Teaching Creative Courses Online

Paintbrush & Ivories

For the past 2 years, more people have been staying home and searching for creative outlets. If you are an artist with an idea for an online art class, now’s the perfect time to dive in.

So, have you been thinking you want to create your own art course and deliver it online? Maybe you already have a course but are interested in learning what other artists are doing and how they approach the ideas and the technology wrangle. If you are a yes, then this episode is worth a listen.

Michelle and Jennifer talk through the ‘gremlins’ that might come up in thinking about diving in to teaching. They also cover how they go about deciding on their course content, the options for online teaching and hosting platforms for live and recorded workshops and the most important equipment you need to get started. At the end of the conversation, Michelle share more detail about the teaching platforms she’s investigated recently to help those wrestling with the all-important decision about which one to use.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Seven Sacred Flames book by Aurelia Louise Jones
• Jennifer’s 1st online course: Seven Sacred Flames
• Michelle’s online 1st course for graphic facilitators: Essentials of Visual Thinking
• Michelle’s online art course: Paint Your heART
• Conference call platforms – Instant Teleseminar, Zoom
• Spirit Art School is the live online monthly art classes with Jennifer, Michelle and other art teachers
• Sanctuary - Jennifer's monthly meditation class
• Jennifer’s Free Your Voice class
• Apps and software for video editing - VideoStudio Camtasia, OBS
• Online teaching platform options – Moodle, TalentLMS, Thinkific, Kajabi, Teachable, Kartra, SamCart

(Please note: there are NO affiliate links for any of the teaching platforms shared above.)

You can find your hosts at these places:

Michelle’s website – www.michellewalkerart.com

Michelle on Instagram – www.instagram.com/michellewalkerart

Michelle on YouTube – www.youtube.com/c/michellewalkerart

Jennifer’s website – www.jenniferruthrussell.com

Jennifer on Patreon – www.patreon.com/JenniferandMichael