We'll launch this course by introducing ourselves, as well as our goals we are setting for our newsletters on the forum!

The rest of this first gathering call will be about laying out a plan for how we would like to spend the length of the course developing our newsletters.

Week 1: Planning

Time for our weekly check-in where we can share our progress on our newsletters. Let's share our fails and wins of the week!

Dive deeper into how things have gone so far, clarify our weekly goals we have set and reevaluate any changes that may be necessary to reach our goal of publishing.

Week 2: Progress Update

Time for our weekly check-in where we can share our progress on our newsletters. Let's share our fails and wins of the week!

Dive deeper into how things have gone so far, clarify our weekly goals we have set and reevaluate any changes that may be necessary to reach our goal of publishing.

Also asking the very important question of... are we having any fun yet??

Week 3: Are We Having Any Fun Yet?

Time for our weekly check-in where we can share our progress on our newsletters. Let's share our fails and wins of the week!

Dive deeper into how things have gone so far, clarify our weekly goals we have set and reevaluate any changes that may be necessary to reach our goal of publishing.

The importance of recognizing that Rome wasn't built in a day, and either will our newsletters be built in a day. 

TRUST THE PROCESS.

Week 4: Rome Wasn't Built In A Day

Last day of class!

Congrats you made it. Making a newsletter wasn't so bad, now was it?

Time to set concluding goals, and discuss the things that we have learned from the beginning of this journey all the way up until now!

Reflecting on how this club went and ways to improve upon this in future iterations.


Week 5: Onwards & Upwards

Learn & Work for 2 hours! 

Join for the shared accountability, sanity check & a laugh or two.

We will pop in to say hello to lay out intentions for the first (5-10 minutes) then proceed to work until the last five minutes of the two hour session to discuss how it went.

Hosted by Adam.

Learn & Work Time

Learn & Work for 3 hours!

Join for the shared accountability, sanity check & a laugh or two.

We will pop in to say hello to lay out intentions for the first (5-10 minutes) then proceed to work until the last five minutes of the three hour session to discuss how it went.

Hosted by Adam.

Learn & Work Time (final push before weekend)

i'm gonna be working on my newsletter. join me :-)

Learn & Work with Grin

Scheduled writing = much easier to not avoid writing.

Come join!

Newsletter Writing Time

Come write for a couple hours!

Join for the shared accountability, sanity check & a laugh or two.

We will pop in to say hello to lay out intentions for the first (5-10 minutes) then proceed to work until the last five minutes of the two hour session to discuss how it went.

Hosted by Adam.

Group Writing Session

Come join the first co-working session hosted through gather.town.

https://gather.town/ - their website :)

Will go with our usual protocol of chatting briefly laying out our goals for the first five minutes or so... then reflecting at the end of our work session.

It'll be fun!

gather.town experiment

writing session

Join to build a consistent newsletter practice. We'll each create a system for writing and publishing, talk tools and platforms, share feedback, and get comfortable writing in public together.

Newsletter Creator Club

This is a template for collecting the artifact resulting from this cohort — a final, publicly viewable summary of what participants learned or created during the course.

❗️**Important:** The contents of this post will appear on the cohort page, visible to everyone. Don't post anything you don't want to be publicly shared.

Please edit this topic with an artifact that makes sense for your course.

## [Artifact Title]

Replace with: summary description of what the cohort created or learned together.

This may be a final writeup, a summary of each participant's project, a link roundup to externally hosted  assignments — whatever makes sense for your course.

Note that participants can reply to this post, but only this initial post of the topic will be published to the cohort page as its public artifact.

Artifact

This is a template for an assignment you want to give participants in this cohort.

Please edit this topic with description, instructions, or anything else that makes sense for the assignment you'd like to share. The text below is just a starting point.

## [Assignment Title]

Replace with: summary description of the assignment. What are participants creating? What's the learning goal in the context of this course?

## Instructions

Replace with: details on the expected format or process for completing the assignment.

Example (for a final writeup):

- Please post a link to a Google Doc with 500 words on what you learned
- Make sure that sharing is turned on so others can comment

Example (for a photography workshop)

- Select your three favorite photos from the week's theme
- Upload them to a post here, each preceded with a one-paragraph description

Assignment

This is a template for details / discussion related to a specific event in your cohort.

Please edit this topic to include most or all of the elements listed below!

❗️**Important:** Please schedule each event from the main cohort page. This template is not the main way to create an event, but may be useful as a reminder, a way to share related details, or collaborate on event notes.

## [Event Title]

Replace with: short description of the event; any additional info beyond what you included in the event description on the cohort page.

## Details / Instructions

Replace with: further details about the event, if needed. How to join, anything participants need to do to prepare; etc.

Event

This is a template for outlining a few simple steps for how participants in this cohort should get started.

Please edit this topic to include most or all of the following elements — or anything else you like!

## Introductions

Replace with: brief note encouraging participants to introduce themselves in this topic. Something like:

Please post a brief intro below! Let everyone know who you are, why you signed up, and what you hope to learn. And say hello to other participants; let's get to know each other!

## Logistics

Replace with: notes about any logistical details participants need to know. 

Any other tools / services participants will need to sign up for or download (e.g. Google Drive, Zoom, etc.)? Materials to prepare? Be sure to let everyone know any preliminary action items.

This topic contains details for this particular cohort. Right now you're in our private forum just for members of this cohort.

## Start Learning!

Replace with: any day-one action items that participants should complete prior to your first meeting. First reading(s) or assignment(s)? Share those here.

Getting Started

This is a template for adding additional information specific to this particular cohort of the course. 

Please edit this topic to include most or all of the elements listed below!

❗️**Important:** The contents of this post will automatically get published on the cohort page. That means it'll be publicly available for ANYONE, not just learners in this cohort, to see. Don't post anything you wouldn't want everyone to know (like links to video conference calls).

All *other* posts in this forum category are private to participants in this cohort. Note that each course also has its own forum space, parent to this one, that is publicly visible.

## Schedule

Replace with: brief outline of your schedule for this particular cohort, with any important meetings or deadlines.

If your meetings are regularly scheduled (for example, every Monday for six weeks), be sure to list any days when the course will deviate from the norm (rescheduling around holidays, for example).

**Note:** You'll create a detailed schedule of all events on the cohort page, so this is best as a summary.

## Amendments

Replace with: anything changes to the curriculum specific to this cohort, that deviate from or override the main course description.

## Anything Else…

Replace with: anything else about this cohort that you think is essential for participants to know! For example any particular thematic focus or learning experiments you want to explore…

Feel free to rename this section or add additional ones as needed. Or if nothing comes to mind, simply remove this section.

Notes

This is a template for a prompt — a question or discussion topic you'd like participants to discuss or respond to.

Please edit this topic to include any details necessary to spark this discussion!

## [Prompt Title]

Replace with: the prompt itself, with as much detail as you need, and how you'd like participants to respond below.

Prompt

This is a template for your cohort to run a retrospective — collecting valuable feedback from participants that will help the course improve over time.

Please edit this topic to include most or all of the following elements — or anything else you like!

## Questions

Replace with: particular questions you'd like students to answer at the end of the cohort, aimed at helping your course improve.

The questions below are just examples. You'll get better feedback if you ask targeted questions about specific aspects of your course. Tweak these questions, or write your own!

- What did you expect to get out of this course? Were those expectations met? If not, how do you feel about the progress you made in this course (if any)?
- What specific things (moments, techniques, conversations) did you feel were most useful to learning in this course?
- What do you wish we'd spent more time on? Anything you felt we should add?
- What's one thing you'd suggest we change or remove?
- Please share anything else you'd like us to know!

Participants: you can quote some or all of these questions to structure your replies below.

## Sharing the Retro

Replace with: how the info from this retrospective will be used to improve the course. For example:

The maintainers of this course will review all feedback collected in this retrospective process. We'll think hard about how we can improve the course structure, specific processes, even particular assignments, questions, or readings.

We may follow up if we want to get more detail on anything mentioned below. 

Thanks so much for taking the time to help us improve this course — we really appreciate it!

Retrospective

## What's This All About?

Consider this the first-time Newsletter Creator Club! Bring your dedicated/aspiring writer friends with you!

In the Newsletter Creator Club, we will explore the power of being a dedicated group writing online together, with the shared goal of publishing our work consistently.

The best way to learn about writing publicly, is writing publicly with others. Come experiment and see what it means to join a cohort of fellow writers in setting yourself stern deadlines and sticking to it.


## Learning Goals?

The Newsletter Creator Club is a club dedicated to those seeking to sharing their writing publicly, transforming it from a wish to a dedicated practice by the end of our club's duration. The ideal outcome for this course is publishing your writing consistently by a set time every day, every week, bi-weekly and/or every month! We will be setting due dates to reach your moonshot of creating a newsletter.

You should expect to publish your writing consistently, at least weekly, for the duration of this club.

## Structure?

Weekly required meetings to discuss tools, tricks, and progress we have made in our writing. Sharing best practices.

Randomized 1:1 pairings to talk ideas with, additional form of accountability, as well as share written work for feedback.

2 hour co-working sessions hosted Tuesday-Friday, with optional weekend co-working sessions! We can discuss if we want to make some of these **required or not**. 

## Who Should Sign Up?

The ideal participant in this course is someone who is ready to develop their online voice. Someone who is willing to receive feedback constructively, and apply the lessons learned into their next artifact. Someone who embraces the Learning in Public mantra.

This club is not for someone who doesn't wish to post their writing publicly!

Cohort #0

Newsletter Creator Club

Week 1: Planning

Learn & Work Time

Learn & Work with Grin

Learn & Work Time

Learn & Work Time

Learn & Work Time (final push before weekend)

Week 2: Progress Update

Newsletter Writing Time

Week 3: Are We Having Any Fun Yet?

Group Writing Session

Week 4: Rome Wasn't Built In A Day

gather.town experiment

Week 5: Onwards & Upwards

writing session

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