We are giving away a $50 scholarship for Skillshare, a new community workshop program recently established in Portland. To win, comment on this post what hypothetical Skillshare workshop you would like to teach. Winner will be drawn and emailed Monday, August 27.
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Skillshare, the community marketplace that makes it easy for anyone to teach and take classes, announced today that they are expanding their presence to Portland.
As of today, any local can sign up to teach workshops to others in the community through Skillshare. Local Skillshare classes meet offline and in-person, where students come together to learn real-world skills ranging from entrepreneurship to crafting to cooking. Anyone with experience and knowledge to share can teach a class, and any place can be a classroom — a co-working space, coffee shop, garage or conference room.
Classes on Skillshare range in price, which is set by the teacher, but tend to cost around $30 per class. In general, Skillshare classes are orders of magnitude cheaper than their traditional equivalents at big universities and education centers. Skillshare also offers Hybrid classes, which combine project-based, online learning with in-person workshops, allowing students to collaborate and learn with others around the globe.
Skillshare began as a way for communities to share local knowledge by teaching and taking classes on everything from programming to entrepreneurship to cooking. The most vibrant local communities include New York City, where Skillshare is headquartered, and San Francisco. To celebrate, members of the Skillshare team, including west coast Community Development Manager Helena Price and Founder/CEO Mike Karnjanaprakorn, will be hosting a happy hour on September 18th, which you can RSVP to here.
To recommend Portland teachers or venues to be a part of the Skillshare community or learn more about how you can get involved, please contact helena@skillshare.com. To receive updates on Portland classes, visit Skillshare.com, or follow Skillshare on Facebook and Twitter.
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As a lifelong learner, I would be stoked to have access to these classes. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” –Henry Ford
I’ve followed the Skillshare program for awhile now, and am so excited to see more Portland opportunities! I’d hypothetically teach a class on apartment/container gardening.
This site looks incredible. Even if i don’t win, I’m glad I discovered it!
I’d like to teach a massage class called: listening with your hands: an introduction to massage techniques for friends and couples
I’m a licensed massage therapist in private practice in Portland, OR
I’d like to teach a class about simple sewing repairs and home projects.
This program sounds wonderful and necessary! I’m excited that it’s coming to Portland, a hub of skills begging to be shared!
So awesome that Skillshare is here! I could teach a Search Engine Optimization course for beginners.
I am in dire need of a new skill set!!!!
I would teach a class on how to authentically brew Japanase green tea! Including ceremonial Matcha! It would cover the diffrent styles of green tea along with samples of these! It would be a total hands on class!
This is such a wonderful idea!! I would LOVE to learn something new or be apart of this! :)
I’d love to teach a crafty class, probably involving paper. I’d love to teach a coptic bookbinding class!
This is a great idea, I’m definitely going to take some classes through this.
Are you kidding me?! THIS EXISTS!! I would love to do a workshop!!
I would love to take the class on selling through Etsy so I could work at home with my disability.
My husband and I would love to learn something new together and see what is available for us!!
We would love to learn welding…..Do they have that in Skillshare?
I love learning interesting, crafty, athletic, culinary, artsy….okay I love learning anything.. So many things I would be interested to teach a class on, but seems like most crafts, culinary arts, artistic, are pretty much covered. Maybe how to throw good parties. Not Martha Stewart style, but cool, fun, quirky, chill style. Students could practice by a group project on creating a cool party and inviting all their friends.
There’s no better way to learn than by doing. And learning to do something new with others seems to be more fun in my opinion.
As a naturopath I’d love to teach a class to empower people to know how to better care for their bodies. And I’d love to take a sewing class! I hope I win! There’s sooooo much I want to learn!
This sounds great!
Hello Portland
If I were teaching a skill able workshop I think I would do a workshop using creative building designing or thinking as my pillars to express our artistic senses. Awesome..I love this website:)..kudos!
I just moved into my first place. Show me how to fix it up right :)
I love learning anything new in order to improve new skill sets or deeper level of learning. I’m going to college and doing 2 IT certificates for the reason of advancement and learning more!!