Pick a Lesson Title

Teach Step-by-Step

Show First, then Maybe Explain

Remove Distractions

Avoid Intros and Outros

Stay on Topic

Guide Their Eyes

Prepare to Record - Screen Resolution and Mic Check

Record One Thought at a Time

Edit with Ripple Delete

Reformat Code to Fit the Screen

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Teaching an egghead lesson should feel like walking the audience through a set of instructions. Do this, then that, move that, twist this, finally push that. The audience wants to see you putting the code together. Assembling your demo while they watch makes it feel much more real and achievable.

[00:00] Record your lesson with a step-by-step approach. If my lesson title is, "How do I subscribe to an observable in Vue," then I would show step one start by npm installing vue-rx and rxjs, then step two would be to import VueRx from vue-rx, then import Rx from rxjs, and so on.

[00:32] While you don't say step one and step two out loud, you do have an inferred step one, do this, step two, do that. You work progressively through your lesson, showing them how to do exactly what you stated in the title.

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