hi guys welcome to the channel my name is hannah if you've clicked into this video my guess is that
you are either intrigued about what skillshare has to offer or you are trying to make a decision on
whether you should pay for premium so i've added the timestamps at the bottom of this
video so you can just click into the section that you are really interested in without
further ado let's get into it first of all what is skillshare skillshare is an online learning
platform with thousands of classes covering topics like photography illustrations video freelancing
productivity and a lot more it is basically a structured youtube playlist for education content
how much does it cost as i'm filming this video i don't think there is an option for month-to-month
description anymore you can pay a monthly fee towards an annual membership of $119.88
but if you get a discount code from google for 30% you only pay around $83.92 per annum
which equal to seven dollars per month let's move on to talk about user experience so when you log
into skillshare there's a search bar where you can type in any topic that you're interested in
a lot of big youtubers and podcasters uploaded their courses on skillshare so it's probably
faster for you to just type in their name if you have joined skillshare just for their courses
under browse you will find a variety of topics that you can choose from here you can also
locate the recommended or trending classes on skillshare when you find an interesting course
you can bookmark it to watch later your account saves and keep tracks of all of the courses that
you bookmarked and you can even organize them into a playlist if you want to when you click to enter
a course you see a video player to the left and the list of all of the videos in the course on
the right and underneath the video player you see the description and also the reviews the students
have about the class you can also find how many students express their interest in the particular
class and the level of the classes are determined by the students which i think is quite cool
there are four levels whether the class is for beginners intermediate advanced or for everyone
for me personally i like to go through the classes that are classified as staff pick
because i usually find i'm having better quality content okay so i thought i will show you guys
quickly what i mean by staff pick classes as well because i think it took me a while
to figure out how to locate these classes so this might help some people so you can
see here on the screen these classes they have the little icon saying original or staff pick
and then some doesn't have anything on it so what i would do i'll go through the search bar and i'll
look up let's say photography search and then on the left hand side here you you can pick the class
type so i tick i will select staff pick and then i'll go through the list say if there's a teacher
in one of these classes that i really like then i'll go into the teacher profile
let's say in this case maureen eggleton is really good then i would go into her profile
and then i'll see if there's any other classes that i'm interested in looks like she only got one
class anyways yeah and that's it so is skillshare better than youtube the biggest bonus when i pay
for skillshare premium is that it's ad-free and this helps me focus better when i'm trying to
learn new things and the classes on skillshare are structured more linearly and divided into
bite-sized pieces which maximize my learning and also easy for me to consume another thing is
that when you are on youtube it's easy to go down this auto-play rabbit hole where you might end up
watching something that completely irrelevant to what you originally searched for. A lot of
the content on skillshare have to pass a certain standards for it to be published so on average
the content on skillshare is a lot better than the average youtube content so let's say out of
10 videos on skillshare i would say about 7 to 9 of them will provide quite good quality
educational value whereas on youtube that ratio will probably be around two to three out of ten
or maybe max will be like four or five when i first signed up for skillshare i was mainly
interested in social media and photography but with the extensive amount of content offered on
skillshare my interests have widened i started taking classes about productivity and also
recently i started learning how to code so what are some pros and cons of skillshare let's start
with the pros as i said earlier the biggest plus for me is that it's ad-free i value my time and
my attention so i'm happy to pay a little bit extra just to keep my attention in tact
and it is still cheaper than youtube premium which i think is around $15 per month in
australia the way the classes are organized into bite-sized content is quite easy for me to consume
and also there's an app available on your phone so you can really learn on the go or anywhere that
you want to some of the teachers on skillshare are big youtubers so they have established trust in
the community and i find their classes are very engaging and they share a lot of practical tips
that i can implement straight away it's a great place for self-motivated learner to sharpen their
current skills or to explore new skills now let's talk about some cons that i find with skillshare
first of all the classes are not certified so for other platforms like udemy or coursera
when you finish the classes you can actually get a certificate to share on your linkedin profile
but you won't get that on skillshare the content is very watchable but it lacks depth so this is
not a place where you can learn to master a skill lastly is that some of the teachers actually
sticking around to give the students the feedback on their project but some of them haven't logged
on for a long time so it might be a bit tricky to if you want to get feedback on your work all
in all do i think skillshare is worth the price tag it depends on what you want to get out of
this platform i find that it's a great place for creatives who look to level up their skill sets
or for lifelong learners who want to explore new interests but if you are looking for more academic
studies or how to master a skill i would recommend other platforms like masterclass or coursera
personally i find that one year description with skillshare is worth the money within just three
months from joining the platform i was able to code a couple of very basic websites from scratch
from knowing nothing about coding at all okay so i thought i would show you guys a couple of websites
that i created since i joined skillshare i've actually created more than two websites but these
two are the most exciting ones that i've got so the first one is um just changing the background
every time you click the button so i'll show you how it works so you just hit here and then i put
the um code in the background to just assign random color every time you click this button
and then the other one is fahrenheit converter so i live in
australia we use celsius here i just thought it was fun to just create something that i can use
so if i put in here 90 degrees fahrenheit and convert you'll be 32 celsius so um yeah these
are the things that you can actually create from just the courses from skillshare i just
want to show you guys this to demonstrate that you can actually learn some fun stuff
through skillshare not only that i've learned some very good practical tips about filming and editing
videos which i'm looking forward to applying all of those knowledge into my future videos
skillshare gives me a great introduction into a lot of topics that i'm interested in
but as i said earlier it lacks depth so i don't know if i will be renewing my annual membership
next year um i guess i'll have to wait to see if there will be a lot more quality content
uploaded onto the platform from now until next year if you are tight on the budget i recommend
you to try out youtube first i've learned a lot of things on youtube and as of right now i'm
still learning a lot of stuff on youtube on top of skillshare it just takes a little bit longer to
sift through all of the content to find out which one is quality and relevant to what you search for
and if you are only interested in a particular topic i would recommend you try udemy you just pay
for a once-off fee and you get a lifetime access to the course and if you get it on sale it is on
sale for majority of the time i think it's around 10 to 30 dollars and you can get some very decent
courses on there and there's also a certificate to come with it when you finish the course as well i
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it in the comment and i hope you guys enjoy this video and i'll see you guys in the next video
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