So much has happened this past month even though I didn’t do anything for the holiday rush—and I really wanted to but it’s hard with two toddlers who only want their mommy.
what I’m working on right now
- A book on preparing for your trip to Japan and the phrases you need in Japan
- New material for the こどものにほんご Japanese for Kids classes
- Revamping the Kana course.
- Studying to interpret at a court case.
- Getting inspired by other book and course creators.
what’s in progress but not being worked on
- A book that helps you hit your goals for learning Japanese
- Flashcards and decks to go with the Japan/Japanese books
- Moving my Japanese courses into the Learning Management System (LMS) on my website.
- The Rewards program coming mid-2023
- Updating Japanese lesson worksheets and compiling them into books.
what I finished in the last month
- Caught up on sending worksheet feedback to my Japanese students.
- Ironed out the rules for the Rewards progam. (Some of it is updated on the Rewards page.)
- Finished uploading and writing out Beginner Japanese I and II courses in the LMS.
- Set redirects from the original courses to the new courses.
- Compiled list of students who should get access to the updated Beginner Japanese I and II courses.
- For the 9 chapters of the studying Japanese book, reset 3 chapters (changed the size of the book) and finalized 2 chapters.
- For the 15 or 16 chapters of the Japan trip book, reset 4 chapters (changed the size of the book), wrote draft for another 3 chapters.
conclusions/final thoughts
The work that goes into making an online course is no joke. That probably ate up 60% of my time. Well, that last 10% was just figuring out how to make AWS work for me so files could only be accessed through my site. It involved going through the Amazon firewall but I got it done.
I can see the goal posts, just not the goal line. And, that’s enough for me to keep going. It just gets tedious sometimes but I like doing all the things that I’m doing. That’s how I stay interested.
And, the people I’ve been listening to recently have really reminded me that I kind of lost my heart a little bit. I’ll tell you why next month, when it’s less crazy around here. Maybe I’ll write a post about who you can get some inspiration from too.
Hope your holidays have been great and wishing you a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!!