WHAT'S INSIDE TECH COURSE CREATOR?
Authoring your own development course is one of the best ways to share your skills, increase your income, and expand your personal outreach.
With expert author Joe Eames leading the way, Thinkster.io will walk you step-by-step through crafting your own course from top to bottom with ease.
We'll help you choose what to teach, how to develop your curriculum, and how to make a course that actually leaves students feeling like they've mastered new skills.
Build Your Reputation
Expand your professional reach as an industry expert and increase your demand.
Earn Residual Income
Sit back and watch your bank account grow with monthly payouts.
Make A Bigger Impact
Reach a larger audience than you could one-on-one.
Hi, I’m Joe Eames
I've created technical programming courses grossing millions of dollars, and have created this course, Tech Course Creator, to help others plan and build their own technical courses.
Hi, I’m Brooke Avery
After I graduated with a Master's in Education and working as an educator for 13 years, I decided to follow my other passion into the field of technology. I attended a full-stack web development bootcamp in SLC, Utah and was introduced to Joe Eames shortly before graduation. Being part of the Thinkster.io team and working with authors to build educationally-rich courses has been a highlight of my career.
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A Sneak Peek at What You'll Get
Research-Proven Teaching Strategies
You'll learn how to couple your programming skills with research-proven teaching strategies to TRULY craft an effective and popular course.
Record, Edit, and Produce
Learn insider tips, tricks, and secrets from industry experts on how to masterfully record, edit, and produce a course from top to bottom.
Best Ways to Teach Technical Content
Master the best ways to teach technical content that goes beyond just sharing your knowledge and skills. Your students will feel like they can truly apply new skills in the real world and not just for your course only.
Step-By-Step Guidance
We'll give you step-by-step guidance and feedback all along the way as you build your course from top to bottom. You'll get personalized training customized to your needs. We also provide peer reviews to ensure that your course is production-ready before it goes live.
WHAT AUTHORS ARE SAYING
Preston Lamb | Deploy Applications to Netlify
“I've actually wanted to make a course for awhile but was kind of nervous to even submit to other websites. But then when I talked to Thinkster and signed up, you guys helped me through everything and made it all super easy. With your backgrounds in making courses and education, you helped me make a course that's super focused and really effective for students.”
Sam Julien
"I find that my deepest learning comes from *doing.* . I can read a hundred articles or watch a hundred videos on a programming topic, but it's not until I sit down and actually write the code that everything sinks in. I love that Thinkster focuses on learning by doing and values education above all else. I've also grown a lot in working with Joe and Brooke. They don't just care about Thinkster's success as a platform; they care about your success as an author and, most of all, the success of the student. Each step of the authoring process ties back into the learning objectives of the student and how working through your course will help them actually learn something, not just boost numbers of views."
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Intro
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Taking Notes
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What is a Driving Question?
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Developing Your Driving Question
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1.4 Exercise: Developing YOUR Driving Question
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1.5 Backwards Design - The Steps to Authoring A Course
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1.6 Learning Objectives & SWBAT Skills
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1.7 Identifying YOUR SWBAT Skills
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1.8 How to Write Your SWBAT Skills
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1.9 Exercise: Writing YOUR SWBAT Skills
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1.10 To Include or Not to Include?
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1.11 Your Demo Code
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Intro
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Drafting A High-Level Outline
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Exercise: Drafting Your High-Level Outline
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Gradual Release of Responsibility
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We Do -vs- You Do Phases
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Exercise Example: Introduction
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Exercise Example: Lecture
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Exercise Example: Instruction Clip
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Exercise Example: Solution
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Exercise: Creating An Exercise for the We Do Phase
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Additional Ideas For Exercises
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3 Types of Exercises
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How to Write A Detailed Course Outline
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3 Types of Video Clips
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The Flow of Your Clips
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Instruction-Giving & Demo Clips
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Example For Your Reference
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Exercise: Making Your Detailed Course Outline
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Tangential Teaching
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Sound Quality Overview
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Microphone Directionality
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Acceptable Sound Quality
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Purchasing Camtasia
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Producing a Sound Check - Overview
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Recording the Sound Check
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Recording on Mac
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Adjusting the Sound Check
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Using the Audio Level Guide
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Producing the Sound Check
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6.1 Intro
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6.2 Giving Instructions
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6.3 Examples of Where to Give Instructions
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6.4 Exercise: Giving Instructions Using A Slide
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6.5 The Power of Questioning - WHY?
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6.6 The Power of Questioning - WHEN?
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6.7 The Power of Questioning - HOW?
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6.8 Anticipate Questions
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6.9 Exercise: The Power of Questioning
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6.10 The Psychology of Exercises
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6.11 The Zone of Proximal Development
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6.12 The Balance of Difficulty - Mix Simple & Comprehensive Exercises
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6.13 Learning Happens from Effort pt. 1
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6.14 Learning Happens from Effort pt. 2
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6.15 Building Student Confidence
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6.16 Exercise: Making Exercises that Keep Students Motivated
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6.19 Two Types of Teaching
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6.20 Using StackBlitz for Exercises
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6.21 Using GitHub for Exercises
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6.22 Efficient Exercise Creation
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Intro
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How to Organize Files and Folders
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Exercise: Create Your First Section Folder
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Using Camtasia - Basics
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Using the Camera
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Editing with the Camera
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Exercise: Using the Camera
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Exercise Solution: Using the Camera
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Recording Best Practices - Preparation
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Recording Best Practices - Recording
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Workflow
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Editing Process Overview
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First Pass
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Second Pass - Words
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Second Pass - Timing
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Second Pass - Typing
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Second Pass - Callouts
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Recording Slide Clips
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Recording Coding Clips
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Basic Edits - Adding Audio
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Basic Edits - Replacing Audio
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Basic Edits - Replacing Video
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Producing a Clip
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9.1 Intro
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9.2 Creating a Tutorial
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9.3 Editing Titles and Slugs
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9.4 Uploading Videos
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9.5 How to Link Tutorials Together
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9.6 Exercise: Create your First Tutorials
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9.7 Markdown
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9.8 Exercise: Create Descriptions & Markdown
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9.9 Exercise: Finish Your First Tutorial
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