Saturday, December 03, 2011
Gift Idea: Give a New Skill from Skillshare
Apartment Therapy Re-Nest: We've blogged about Skillshare before, touting our love for the recently-launched site where you can browse classes, sign-up or offer to teach. But here's an idea, instead of gifting something this holiday season, give your loved ones the gift of a new skill.
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This is a great alternative to the holiday gift norm. In stead of getting someone something that they'll probably return next Monday anyway, why not get them an opportunity to learn and expand their skills. That's what I would want. It's very practical, eco-friendly, and economically forward gift. I'm glad to see that Skillshare is expanding geographically. It seems like this may be really taking off. I hope it does.
Skillshare is a neat idea to me because they're branching out beyond the traditional skills that you might be taught at a community college or university (like computer programming or cooking classes) and allowing anyone to teach what they know and what will sell, like knitting for beginners, how to use LinkedIn and stand-up comedy. Working through this website aggregates all the different class listings and may provide the agency to a knowledge expert without a formal post at a college or university to share and get paid. For students, the listings are geotagged, so you can filter for local classes and webinars rather than wading through every class known to man but only offered in New York City. I wonder if a situation like this could be used in theatrical application. I jump to find students for voice lessons, because often vocal coaches and students have difficulty connecting with each other and making the right match, so a student pulling up a list of the city's vocal coaches may facilitate the trial-and-error process of finding the right coach.
Giving the gift of a skill is one of the best gift ideas I have heard. It's something that lasts and can be applied to so many things. Any material object gets used up or is nice for a while, but one can never have too many skills. Skillshare looks like it is a good platform for keeping all of the classes organized and somewhat consistent. As Brian said, a lot of the classes are very unique, providing opportunities to learn about things that otherwise people wouldn't have known about. I hope that Skillshare expands into Pittsburgh and more cities around the US.
This is a really interesting idea, however I find their website difficult to navigate. There seem to limited options for Pittsburgh, and it was hard to search and see classes that very available. Cool idea, and potentially a good gift if you can match the person to the class well. Share the knowledge!
Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, teach him to fish, and he can eat for a lifetime. I love this idea! This is much more personal than just giving someone that comes in a box, and it's also much more exciting. It seems like they have options for everyone and anything. It seems like someone would love this gift instead of a normal gift because getting something materialistic is gratifying for about an hour, where as learning something new can be gratifying for a life time.
I really like this idea. It’s a happy medium between learning something on the Internet and trying to enroll in college to take one class. There are many skills I would like to learn but don't want to “go to school” for on their roster. It also seems like a great way to pass down knowledge that wouldn't normally fit into a degree or in basic training for a profession. The only thing I wonder about (and couldn't really find anything on there website about) is any proof the teacher knows what they’re taking about.
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