in the previous video I shared how you can use the course outline template to make an awesome
outline that will help you build slides for your presentation based course here you could either
begin the process of building your slides or you can write out scripts for your lessons but
which one should you choose I understand you've already made a lot of choices today what pants
to wear what to eat for breakfast whether or not to watch this video I'm gonna make it easy for
you write your scripts first I'm gonna go into the why and the how in just a moment let's get into it
hello of creators I'm Ben Toalson from Podia where we empower creators like you to make
a living doing what you love when making a presentation based online course I recommend
writing scripts for your lessons before you build many of your slides and here's why even though you
might already have great slide content in your outline writing scripts will help you refine
the language you'll use for your slides and can often remind you of important points you might
have forgotten scripting isn't the only way to present your course info so I'm feel comfortable
just going off the cuff from there outline for the purposes of this video we're going to assume
you want to script out your lesson so you can read from that script as you record I'm gonna
walk you through a four-step process for writing amazing scripts for your online course step 1
write without editing this is probably one of the hardest things to do but it's essential to the
writing process following your outline you want to go through point by point and write out how
you would present the information as if you were talking to a single person sitting right in front
of you you'll be tempted to delete and rewrite but just try to keep going you can edit later this
step is about getting into a state of flow and letting your thoughts and ideas flow freely onto
the page if you find it difficult to keep typing without editing get some pliers and just remove
the backspace key from your keyboard don't do that it takes practice when you feel the urge to delete
and rewrite a sentence push yourself to do another take go ahead and write the sentence again but
keep the first one when you go back to edit you can decide what you want to keep and what you want
to toss the more you practice doing this the more you give your brain permission to take over your
fingers and let the words flow step 2 rewrite for pacing this is an important to consider especially
for presentation based courses when your course is presented in slides it's important for the
pacing to be consistent so you don't linger on a single slide for too long while you're talking in
the background I like to use something called the Twitter technique that's not really a thing would
go with me if you're not familiar with Twitter it's a social media platform that allows you to
no more than 240 characters per post it sounds like it would be annoying but it's actually kind
of cool because it forces you to be more concise you don't need to give yourself a character limit
but consider how your bullet points might be broken up into slides and try to maintain the
same number of sentences or paragraphs for each one step 3 rewrite to make it more natural one
of the most challenging things about writing a script is sounding natural we tend to write more
formally than we speak because that's how we were taught to write this isn't necessarily wrong when
it comes to certain types of writing but when writing a script it can leave us sounding flat
and inauthentic you got to put some personality into it feel the rhythm unleash the tiger here's
a simple exercise you can do to make your scripts sound more natural read what you've written out
loud in most cases you can tell where you might be phrasing something in a way you wouldn't normally
say it or using words you don't normally use as you read aloud edit the script to make it sound
more like you if it helps as someone you trust and who knows you well to have a reading session
with you not only can they point out where your wording might sound inauthentic but they can also
let you know where you don't sound natural in your delivery step 4 format for delivery now you've got
a script that's well-written perfectly paced and authentically you if you want to give yourself
an edge when it comes to recording that script use formatting to help you and your delivery
there are a lot of different ways you can format your script but I'll walk you through some of the
things I do use title text for section titles when I see title text it reminds me to take my time and
put some space around the title of the section I'm about to record bold for lists titles within
sections this also reminds me to put some space around the title and keep a steady pace as I list
out other items italics for emphasis if there's a word or a phrase I want to highlight I'll put
it in italics this reminds me to give a word more importance and focus and my every vertical lines
if I need a more significant pause between words or phrases I might include a vertical line to
remind me to pause and let what I just said have a little breathing room before moving on these are
just a few examples of how I format my script but you're free to use your own methods the goal of
this step is to make it easy for you to perform your script without overthinking your delivery
and that's it hopefully you'll walk away from this video with ready to go lesson scripts and
a clear idea of how you might adjust your slide content to make an awesome course in the next
video we'll talk about how to actually make the slides for your course if you have any questions
about any part of this process leave them in the comments below if you found this video helpful
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