Let's take a look at how you might use Pathwright to host a virtual event. And to enliven our post, I’ll be drawing examples from our friends over at The Makers Summit who recently hosted their 2023 virtual event using Pathwright.

How to Host a Virtual Event on Pathwright

See an example of how to host to a virtual event or online conference with Pathwright, featuring The Makers Summit's 2023 virtual conference.

Dispelling a few myths about moving online and sharing a toolkit and outline for making the change. 

Christian shares how you can use the Cohorts feature to offer your courses in multiple ways simultaneously and take the impact of your courses further.

Four Ways to Offer Courses That Quadruple Their Impact

Experts are expected to be teachers (and vice versa). If we confuse these two equally important skills, we dramatically devalue what makes them particularly helpful.

Coffee Walks is a new and ongoing interview show from the Pathwright team. Mark Johnson discusses the importance of side projects in his own life and the Pathwright team.

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Our five-step recipe for designing learning experiences that help learners build the right habits, overcome boredom, and do these things in relationship with others.

Design the Perfect Learning Experience in 5 Steps

Learning has always had the same enemy: distraction. And teachers have always had the same task: to fight distraction with good design. That's more true in the brave new world of the internet...

Why Would a Software Company Design Courses?

The story of the three-point shot and what it has to teach us about why point values matter in an online course.

To kick off a new school year, I thought I'd share some of my favorite wisdom from other teachers.

Computers Teach What Computers Can Be and Other Lessons from Great Educators

To do a little myth-busting, a course isn’t simply collected information. Teaching is the shape that information takes and the relationship that’s built around it.

Teach Through Connections and Communities, Not Content

Jerry Seinfeld wants to know if you’ll watch his show. Well, that was a big question when developing his internet show "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”

How Long Should Your Online Lesson Be? Seinfeld Might Know

On a given Saturday, with time on my side and a bit of boldness, YouTube will teach me almost any skill. I need to change the oil in my car? 3,660,000 videos are ready at hand to show me how.

Why Teachers Should Give Questions, Not Answers

I love exploring historic universities. While living in London last year, I had the chance to explore some of Oxford’s colleges and numerous universities in Scotland.

Last year, after working in the “real world” for three years, I decided to move to England in order to study for a Master’s degree.

Grades don’t tell us anything about who we are. They help us measure what we’ve gained. In other words, they don’t mark genius. They mark growth. If we equip our learners with the right mindset, a grade never has to be discouraging.

Like the first page of a novel, your course introduction sets the tone for everything that follows. In a course, the first few steps can give your learners a map of what they’ll learn and the energy to tackle it.

4 Ways to Engage Learners in Your Course Introduction

Online courses should be more than just an attractive way to convey information, because learning is more than just relaying facts. It’s about relationships that build frameworks for information.

Every so often a person is gifted with both wonderful skill and the skill to teach. David Foster Wallace was such a person.

An Undoubtedly Fun Class I’ll Never Get to Take

4 Things David Foster Wallace Taught Me About Teaching

I'm just trying to share stories and ideas that make life a little better. At Pathwright, I do that by spending my time working one-on-one through EdLabs, sharing what I've learned about the most effective ways to teach online and discovering how to do that better. Outside of Pathwright, you can find me memorizing poems or fine-tuning my leather working skills.

I’m a teacher who writes. At Pathwright, I share our philosophy for better education by writing posts like this, designing courses, and leading retreats. I’d also gladly talk about art and theology or The Office for as long as you’d like.

I conduct research and experiments to design the most engaging learning experiences possible with you.

Leather working became my pandemic hobby. I make all kinds of leather goods, from tote bags and duffel bags to wallets and watch bands.

Poetry for Humans is an experiment in reading together. I record short videos in which I pick a poem at random (which means I usually pick one I've never read before) and I live in it for a bit with you in hopes that we see that poetry is more approachable than we sometimes think.

At Vocatioanlity, I help people find more meaningful work and more meaning in the work they already do. It's a 5-week process with guided conversations and personal reflection.

Christian Shockley

Head of Ed Labs • Since '13

Interests

Travel / Personal Development / Movies / Poetry / Theology / Education / Leatherworking

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