Introducing Colleen Schaan

Next up is Colleen Schaan.

Colleen is a Design Team member for My Creative Classroom. She is an avid stamp artist and is currently the Managing Editor and Reporter for Craft Critique. Enjoy the short presentation she created and as always be sure to turn your speakers on.



Direct link to presentation.

Time to Start Our Introductions

Good Tuesday Morning,

This week I will begin introducing our faculty at My Creative Classroom. I am starting with Donna Feledichuk. Donna is a Design Team member for My Creative Classroom. She owns Scrapper’s Haven a stamping and scrapbooking store in Northern Alberta. Donna is a teacher by profession and have taught and developed numerous online courses for K – 12 schools as well as for corporations for professional development. Donna created a short presentation so you could get to know her better. Be sure to turn your speakers on. :)



You can visit Donna at:
http://www.scrappershaven.ca/
http://thestampsource.blogspot.com/

Fall Classes

I am so happy to announce that My Creative Classroom will begin offering a limited schedule of classes this fall. The design team and teachers are so excited to get started they could not wait until the spring.

The new classes will be listed on the website the week of November 12th. I will also preview the classes here on the blog.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Design Team Announcement

I am so excited to finally be able to announce our 2007/2008 faculty. They are such a wonderful group of women. They are so excited to get started. In the coming weeks I will be posting bios for each of our teachers. Each will also have their own faculty page that will include their bio and information about the classes they plan to offer. So be sure to visit the My Creative Classroom to learn more about them.

Design Team Members
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
Julie Kelley
Pam Sandy
Jen Dera
Pamela Posch
Norma Anne Chattin
Donna Feledichuk
Beverley Todd
Madonna Yashinski
Colleen Schaan
Ann Butler
Suzi Wollman
Shirley Pando
Jenna Franklin
Grace Walker
Cara Miller
Jeri Parks

2007/2008 Faculty
Julie Ebersole
Chris Johnston
Cindi Bisson
Kylie Hopkins
Nikki Cleary
Alicia Barry
Jeri Baldovin
Kittie Caracciolo

Stress and Joy on a Tuesday Morning

Happy Tuesday, I hope the new week is going well for everyone. I have just come back from a self imposed vacation. By last Friday I could feel the stress building as I started to review all of the teacher applications I had received. I kept thinking, how will I ever decide? They are all so great? So I decided to step away for the weekend and spend sometime cleaning, reflecting and enjoying my family. It was just the break I needed.

Today I started sending emails to all of the applicants. Their responses have filled my heart with joy and confirmed my decisions were correct. I can't wait to share the full list of teachers with you and I know each of them shares my excitement. I will be making a formal announcement on Friday after I have talked to each of the teachers.

Until I hope your week is fill with more joy the stress. If you have yet to sign up for our newsletter please take a minute to check out all of the details. My Creative Classroom Newsletter.

New School Year Starts

DS will be starting school full time next week. Hard to believe, the summer went by so fast. What will I be doing? Reviewing all the wonderful teacher/design team applications I have received. If you are interested in teaching there is still time to apply. Check out our website for all of the details.

I will also be testing the classroom software and preparing to introduce our teachers the 1st week of September. In in the coming weeks there will be teacher introductions on our blog and website. I am so excited to get started. January seems so far away, but I know it will be here before I know it.

Also wanted to remind everyone that we will be hosting a free week of classes for those individuals on our mailing list. This is a great way to meet all of our teachers.

Free Week of Classes.

Until next week you will find me soaking up some summer sun with my family, hope you can do the same.

A Big Thank You

I need to give a big thank you to Angi Pedersen who owns scrapbookmarketing.com for helping me with our marketing plan and writing a press release for My Creative Classroom. Angie is great to work with and definately knows her stuff.

I used the information we talked about and create a narrated slide presentation. Hopefully it will give a little better idea of who we are and what our vision is. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

My Classes

Will I be teaching classes next spring? The answer is yes. In addition to providing ongoing update training to our teachers I will also be teaching my own classes. The classes I will be offering are not your typical craft classes, I will be focusing on the topic of creativity. In fact I probably should add that to the list of class topics. I will be using creativity to explore personal growth and development.

My Personal Mission Statement-is the first of several personal growth classes I plan on offering this spring. I have facilitated mission statement classes in the past, but never through creative means. Students will write their personal mission statement using the creative method of there choice. Those methods could include creative writing, artistic journaling, collage, mixed media or scrapbooking. Whatever your heart desires. Interested? Sign up for our newsletter to receive advance registration notification.

An Introduction

During the past six months as I have worked to launch My Creative Classroom, I have often thought that many of you might wonder who I am. Why should I teach for or take classes at My Creative Classroom? Since my name is not a familiar one, I thought is was time to introduce myself. My name is Jeri Parks, I am a trainer, crafter, artist and business owner.

Like so many women before me my career can be divided into two sections; pre-children and post-children. Prior to the birth of my son I spent 15 years in the training and development industry. My last position was as a training manager for a larger university in Texas. In addition, I also owned my own training and consulting business. I love training/teaching, the first time I stood in front of a class it was coming home to a place I had never been before.

After the birth of my son I made a huge career change to meet the changing needs of my family. For the past four years I turned to my second love, crafts, as a source of income. I can't remember time when I was not involved with some type of craft. As a small child and young adult I learned and enjoyed needle crafts. Later I moved on to wood crafts and home decor. Ten years ago I discovered scrapbooking, which lead me to paper crafting, altered arts, mixed media and collage. I have been selling on Ebay under the name Moments2Memories ever since. I dearly love my customers and hope to continue selling in the future.

As my son started to need me less and less, I began to look for options to grow my business. During an unexpected relocation I had a light bulb moment, well it was more like a lightening strike. :) It was time to combine my two passions, training and crafts, but on my terms.

Local craft and art stores do a great job teaching the basics and community colleges offer some advanced courses, but I wanted more. I wanted basic, intermediate and advanced courses, facilitated by talented teachers, that I could take in my own home, where I would have access to my own craft supplies. I wanted courses the pushed me, that were interactive and used creativity in unique ways. I wanted others to come on the journey with me. I wanted teachers to be able to offer courses without having to travel and I wanted them to retain a majority of the revenue they brought in. I wanted business owners to be able to offer additional services to their customers and manufacturers to be able to education the public about their products.

And so My Creative Classroom was born. Hopefully now you know I have used a lifetime of experience, training and education to create My Creative Classroom. I hope you spend some time visiting our website, take a few courses and maybe even teach for us. It is our mission to create the best online learning experience possible.

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Design Team Call

My Creative Classroom is currently recruiting for our Design Team. If you have ever wanted to teach online then this is the design team for you.

We are currently looking for a variety of art and craft teachers, please consider this when applying. A full list of courses wanted can be found on our website. Application Deadline: August 31,2007.

Why teach for us? Design Team Benefits:

1. Each DT member receives their own virtual classroom. Each virtual classroom comes equipped with all the tools needed to teach online. $15 monthly fee is waived for DT members.
2. DT members retain the majority of course revenues. Depending on the course, you will receive 75-85% of course revenues.
3. DT members receive top billing in our marketing campaign. Including, but not limited to, course catalog, faculty pages, blog, newsletter, print and online advertising.
4. Extensive and ongoing training to help you design professional and interactive online courses.
5. DT members enjoy a very liberal product placement policy. We allow our teachers to promote other products and/or businesses they may be associated with.

To apply visit our website, http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/, for all the details.

Interested in teaching without the extra demands of a design team position? We are also accepting applications for independent teachers. Please visit our website for all the details.

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Limited Time Offer

My Creative Classroom will begin offering a full range of classes Spring 08. To kick-off our spring semester we will be hosting a week of free classes. This is a great time to:

• Meet our teachers
• Experience first hand our teaching philosophy
• Register for spring classes

This offer is only available to individuals on our mailing list, be sure to sign up today.

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Welcome to our new blog

I am so excited to announce that we have just opened our doors. My Creative Classroom is a virtual learning center that supports artists/designers/crafters who want to teach. I have a lot more to share about our new venture in the coming weeks and months.

We are currently recruiting teachers, be sure to check out our website www.mycreativeclassroom.com for all the details.