About Taking Classes at Get It Scrapped!
We are always offering self-paced classes and we also offer scheduled online workshops that you work through with a teacher and group.
Upcoming workshops include Oodles of Doodles starting July 19 and Your Kids: Captured Through the Lens starting July 20.
I’m in the process of moving our shopping cart, and, at this point, the self-paced classes in the store include: Art Journaling (4 classes), Advanced Digital Techniques (4 classes), a Beginning Digital Scrapbooking class, and a class about page design: Building Pages. Over the summer, I will add Lynn Weber’s 3 photoediting classes, design & product usage classes from Doris Sander, and technique classes from Tania Willis to the self-paced lineup.
You can find and purchase these classes in the GIS Store (there’s a link for it in the top menu bar!).
SELF PACED/ON-DEMAND CLASSES
Upon purchase you’ll receive a link to download a .ZIP file (this is a compressed folder with all of your class documents). Save it to your computer and then uncompress or unzip it (usually this can be done by double clicking on it and then clicking on the words “extract all” at the top of your window).
The unzipped folder will contain at least one .PDF file (this a document you can open with Adobe Reader to save, print, or read on the screen). Start by looking at the document with “welcome” in its name. In cases where the materials are exceptionally large (i.e., big videos and lots of digital product) your document will contain some more download links. For some class you’ll receive access to a password-protected forum where you can ask questions of the teacher and share your own work and thoughts with teacher and other participants.
WORKSHOPS
forums
For any class you take, a few days before class begins, you’ll receive access to the private forums for that class.
Each workshop usually has three forums:
- Welcome (where you hang out until class starts, getting to know your teacher and classmates and doing any getting ready activities needed);
- Blackboard (where the teacher will post class materials on class days); and
- Talk (where you can ask questions, share info, and just yak with the teacher, class designers and other participants).
receiving class materials
On each of the scheduled class days a new class is available. You’ll see it announced in the class forum by something like: “Hey! Over Here for Class #1.” The “class” is a document in .pdf format. You’ll click on it and open it up with Adobe Reader. Save it to your computer so you’ll have access to it when class is over. You don’t have to download the class right on the day it’s posted. It’ll be around for at least three months. You may save the lesson to your hard drive. You may read the lesson on your screen. You may print the lesson. There’s no “getting behind” on these classes — you do them as you have time.
Some classes also include a video component, and you’ll also see that announced and shared in the “Blackboard.”
sharing your work
As you receive the class materials, you’ll hopefully be creataing. We have a gallery where you can show us what you’ve done. In addition to the public albums in the gallery, each class has its own private albums for participants.
check out the gallery
See what your classmates have done and leave them praise, ask questions.
message board yakking
The class forums on this message board are a place where all participants may “chat” with each other by making posts. You check the forums and post comments on your own schedule. Teachers are checking the forums regularly throughout the duration of the class and a bit beyond.
HOW LONG WILL YOU HAVE ACCESS?
I get this question a lot. And people are sometimes surprised when I tell them I guarantee access for three months after class is over. Why not lifetime? That’s what other sites say!
In actuality, every class we’ve ever offered in 2-1/2 years is still in the forums and students still have access. But–for those materials to continue to sit on our server and be delivered via our forums, I have to pay fees every month. I’m hoping to be here with Get It Scrapped for a long time to come, but nothing in life is guaranteed. What I can promise you is that I’ve always got things set up to be paid for 3 months from any day that I sell a class.
And, really, if you’ve decided to take a class, and you’re opening the lessons, it doesn’t take much longer to just save them to your hard drive!
