Hello Everyone,

So like many college graduates, recently, I’ve been debating between paying my rent or paying my massive student loan bills. To be honest, there is no debate; I just can’t pay an extra $2,000 per month right now in student loan payments, and my lenders are not in a very flexible mood. So for the last few years, I have returned to school, mainly, to put my loans back to in-school deferment status.

Having already graduated, working a full-time job and a part-time (some times full-time) home business, I’ve had to find classes to take that I thought would not overload me. I don’t have the kind of time to commit to taking graduate level coursework; therefore, I started taking undergrad courses, “again”! I figured these might not take too much time. I know… not the best way to approach a class. I.e., there’s always that bit of academic guilt playing around with your conscience telling you, “You get out of something what you put in it”. Leave me alone conscience… I’m trying to survive here!

Initially, I thought I would take some easy, aka, “basket weaving classes” as a pass-fail. Of course, with my trademark procrastination, all the good basket weaving classes would usually be taken by the time I registered for classes. And actually there is a limit to the classes you can take under the auspice of pass-fail. So I had to put  a little more thought into the “price” I was wiling to pay to defer my student loans.

Along the way, I have tried to take some classes that would actually provide some enrichment, at least, be interesting to me. So far, my three favorite courses have been WordPress, Excel, and Nutrition. I’ll link to my Excel and Nutrition class reviews later when I create those blog posts. For now, let’s just talk about WordPress. This has been a great class actually. The course number and name is is BA198 – WordPress at Santa Anna College.

Having been using WordPress.org for the past 6 years, I went into the class with some preconceived notions that I might not learn much. I even stuck my foot in my mouth (after not, initially, watching some videos I should have watched) that the class was about WordPress.Com and not WordPress.Org. FYI, the focus was on WordPress.Org!

I was surprised to learn that I actually did learn a great deal. While the class is probably more geared toward the WordPress.org newbies, anyone of any skill level will gain some valuable new insights.

The instructor, Professor Sean Glumace, is actually a pretty accomplished web designer in the internet space, focusing on Graphic Design, Typography, and Illustration. He is an Adobe education leader; and His WordPress tutorials have been eye opening. He has a great video on WP plugins here.  His YouTube Channel actually has a plethora quality content covering subjects such as: WordPress; Adobe Photoshop; comic book creation/production. He has also opened my eyes to some great resources such as Adobe Exchange. 

Professor Glumace, if you happen to see this, thank you for sharing your wisdom and putting so much effort into providing such a great class!

If you would like to reach Mr Glumace for some freelance work or consulting, you can message him on his portfolio page, or find him on his LinkedIn profile. 

To your success,

Jody Heath

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