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.
How to Record The Video Modules for Your Online Course
A Real-Time Case Study on Video Recording, from a First Time Course Creator Welcome back to our blog series detailing how to create your own online course, featuring real-time testimony from me, Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas, a co-founder at Fair Share Films. Together with Spotlightr, I’m detailing our...
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...
How to Sell an Online Course
Course Creators Need a Marketing Plan to Sell Effectively Creating your online course is only half the battle. Selling it is a different story. You’ve come up with some fantastic online course ideas, picked the best one, packaged your expertise and are ready to monetize your course and share your...
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...
Product Updates
Want Private Video Hosting? 3 Elements Are Needed
Nope, this isn't another top 10 list where we "shockingly" put ourselves in the top 10 along with our competitors. There's plenty of those articles already out there. What we're going to do here is tell you what to look for in private video hosting services, what it means to have private video...
Spotlightr Version 5 Is Ready To Rock!
Spotlightr 5 has been the main focus of the latter part of the first quarter and all of the second quarter of this year. We've been diligantly worked and testing and tweaking and our excitement has been building. The newest version of Spotlightr is now ready for you! In this article we want to...
Release Notes: July 2021
The dog days of summer are upon us and we've been busy as usual. Simplifying and reimagining some of our features has been one of our priorities for this quarter, so while changes we make can be small we believe that they will make those features easier to use for...
Release Notes: May 2021
In April and May we continued to improve the new player. Although we were anticipating having the old player available for a few more months, we came out ahead of schedule. So at the end of May we were able to sunset the old player options inside of...
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...