The Startup Filmmaker’s Journey to Creating an Online Course.
Follow business-owner Michael as he takes you with him on his journey to create his own course. All the detail and tangible results, with real-time case study content.
Crafting Your Course Narrative: Scripted, Unscripted, and Everything In Between
Hello again! Welcome back to our blog series on how to create your own online course. I’m Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas with Fair Share Films, a new bootstrapped production company working on our own bootstrapped course (about bootstrapped filmmaking 😀). In collaboration with Spotlightr, I’m...
Building Blocks for Success: The Ultimate Guide to Your Online Course Tech Stack
Hello! Thanks for reading this next installment in our blog series on how to create your own online course. I’m Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas from Fair Share Films. We’re working with Spotlightr to document the creation of our own first course, “The Startup Filmmaker: Bootstrapping Your Indie Career...
Why You Should Think Structure First, And Then Outlining, When Planning Your Course
Welcome back to our blog series on how to create your very own online course. New readers can catch up on the first and second posts at their leisure. As a general reminder, I’m Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas, a filmmaker and marketing consultant cataloging my experience creating my own first online...
How to Start an Online School
Prepare for the Work & the Rewards There are many reasons why you might want to start an online school. They’re flexible, accessible, more more affordable to build than traditional educational environments, and they come with powerful abilities to personalize coursework and rapidly scale both...
Why Microlearning Platforms Should Help Shape Your Course
Video Course Creators Would Be Wise to Study Microlearning Models in Creating Their Courses Creating great content for your course isn’t just about the lesson materials themselves. If your presentation and formatting isn’t as engaging and accessible as it could be, the competition could win...
5 Examples of Microlearning Frameworks That Could Benefit Video Course Creators
Microlearning Is About More Than Your Video Course Content (Use it Everywhere) We’ve covered what microlearning is and why course creators would be wise to employ it in their offerings if they don’t already. There’s a summary of some popular examples of microlearning platforms in that post. But...
Product Updates
Release Notes: March 2021
Bug fixing was the name of the game for February and March. Our roll-out of our new player continued and with it reported bugs from our users. Because of many of the bugs reported, we made the decision to completely change (again) the loading sequence of our videos to address many issues that...
New in Spotlightr: Video Galleries
If you’ve used Spotlightr to host your videos, then you know that it’s a great way to share content and grow your business. But sometimes, you might want to take things a step further by building a collection of videos that you can share or sell to your audience. Today, we’ve added a new feature...
Release Notes: December 2018
Throughout December we were finalizing all of the 2018 efforts, continued working on performance optimizations as well as laid out the plan for the first part of 2019. We hope everyone had a great holiday season with friends and family and we wish you health and...
Release Notes: November 2018
In November we released Spotlightr Reports added several new integrations. We also started focusing on analytic insights again as well. We also added some highly requested integrations including CovertFox and Google Analytics. We also made a ton of polishes and...
vooPlayer and AppSumo – Was This Good for Us?
UPDATE 9/1/20 - We have rebranded to Spotlightr, however I am keeping the content of this article as vooPlayer ----- “We want to use vooPlayer but we can’t afford to pay a recurring fee!" This is something we heard quite a bit from potential customers contacting us at...