Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Help Needed!

I have recently tried my hand at creating some units and have a ton of ideas for other units I want to do and have some units in the process. I have  Teacher's Notebook store but I have no business. Hadar at Miss Kindergarten gave me the tip to show a few more picture of what I have in the unit. I thought that was a good suggestion and made sense. I was wondering if anyone else out there had some tips like that for starting successful Teacher's Notebook store or TPT stores. So I have a few questions that I could use some answers to. If you have some tips or answers, please comment and then I'll turn this into some kind of guide for others. I love the teaching blogging community and how helpful and encouraging everyone is.
  • What is your favorite program to create units on?
  • How do you turn multiple pages into a jpg?
  • How do you decide what to charge for your units?
  • What kinds of activities seem to sell the best?
I love to create things to use in my class and love to share them. The only reason I'm considering selling my stuff is to pay for my habit of buying more stuff. I love to have new units and ideas to use in my class. But spending $10-20 each week is getting a little out of my budget. If you can offer any wisdom or answers to these questions, I would greatly appreciate it. I hope to compile any tips or hints into a blog post to help others.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Giveaway Excitement!

I'm up to 56 friends (followers) and I'm super excited. Thanks to Laura at Kinder Kraziness for featuring me yesterday on her blog. So as stated before, I'm going to have a giveaway. I'm giving away a $10.00 gift card for Dollar Tree. This is how you enter.
  1. Start following me if you aren't already and leave me a comment that you've started following me. 
  2. Blog about my giveaway and then leave a comment.
  3. Leave a comment giving a way that use literacy bags. 
I started using literacy take home bags this year. Well, I've really only done one and that was inspired by The Very Busy Kindergarten for If you Give a Mouse a Cookie. This has gone over really well and the kids love it. I would love to do another one but I'm in need of an idea. So if you have a great idea of something you do, please comment and you can be entered in the giveaway as many times as you comment. I'm super excited about my first giveaway. You can enter through Friday night. I'll hopefully figure out how to do a random drawing by then.  Although my boyfriend, did volunteer to draw a comment out of a hat. I can't wait to see what you have to share.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Help please!

After spending the last few months stalking other blogs and being inspired by all the wonderful ideas I've seen out there. I'm really wanting to start making somethings to sell on TPT or teachers' notebook. Or at least I think I do. But I have no idea how all this licensing stuff works out. So I thought I would put my questions out on my blog and see what others have to say about it.
What sites are the best to work with for fonts and clipart? I was looking at lettering delights and I like their stuff but I had a hard time figuring out their licensing information.
Does royalty free clipart mean that I can use it on stuff I'm going to sell and not worry about it? Microsoft's clipart is royalty free and that's what I am using right now with things. 
Is there a program that seems to work best for creating printables?
I am exploring this option mainly because I keep running out of money each month. I think I'm spending too much on school things. So if I was able to sell a few things to pay for all my school need, that would help me out a ton. I would love some input on what other people do.
On a side note, I'm super excited because I'm going to be featured on Kinder Kraziness tomorrow. And I'm only two more followers away from 50 and my first giveaway. A $10 gift card to Dollar Tree!