As you may already know, I am offering tutoring and programming on the Internet. You may have seen some of my work already on my blog, on youTube or on WizIQ’s virtual classroom. Here are some examples that I have already published:
Free eBook: Introduction to PHP
Free Video: Blender – first Steps
Free Video: Gimp – first Steps
Free Video: Become a Webmaster using WordPress.com
Free Live Class: Google Calendar Demystified
Free Live Class: The Firefox Web Browser: Useful Add-Ons
Now I’m planning on writing a new eBook that I want to offer for free but I need your help with this because I want to make sure it’s something that people really need and appreciate. I have prepared a simple survey that you can fill out, so that I get an Idea what’s the most required topic for such an eBook. If several people request the same or a similar topic, I will prepare a tutorial eBook that you will be able to download for free.
Edit: Thanks for all who did participate in the survey. Please check out this blog post for a follow-up.
Edit: This attempt has failed so far. Thanks for all who responded to the first survey, unfortunately it did not work for the follow-up. Maybe I did something wrong. Still not sure what it was. See this updated post for more information.
As you may know already, I offer eLearning courses about web development on my site lernpilot.de where I sell interactive courses like HTML, PHP and MySQL. These courses have been sold quite good within the last years but I never could sell them in English for whatever reason. So I decided to make the English version of my PHP course a free eBook instead (because it’s already translated in English and would be a pity to throw it away).
The text is not new, as a matter of fact I wrote it some years ago for PHP4 but I revised some of the chapters so that it’s still good for PHP5. You can download it for free from lulu.com and you can even share it with your friends (it’s under Creative Commons no-commercial share-alike license).
If you find errors in the book, or if you find things hard to understand, please send me feedback. I’m planning to create a complete new course (or eBook) about web development in the future, covering HTML5, PHP5 and MySQL5, so I appreciate to hear about any problems you may have with my teaching style or the given examples in the eBook.
If you have a facebook account, please check out the like-button on the rent-a-tutor blog. I usually announce my free stuff on my facebook page first, so you will have the advantage to learn about this stuff earlier than my blog readers.
Please send feedback to:
heddesheimer@gmail.com
Unfortunately, my in world shop at Zoha Islands does not generate much traffic any more, so I have to close it down within the next week. Thanks to all my customers who stopped by to check out my free class of the week and who bought my scripting tutorials from there.
My tutorials will still be available on XStreet SL and later in the new Linden Marketplace until I found a new place where I can offer my tutorials in world.
If you have any questions, you can contact Jim Gustafson directly in world or send me an e-mail at heddesheimer@gmail.com
I just found a great presentation on Slideshare about CreativeCommons:
On Thursday I’ll give another free class on eduFire. This time I’ll explain how to install and set up the free blogging software WordPress on your own web site.
Check out this link to the class.
Find my profile on eduFire