Looking Back at 2018 to Plan for 2019

aarmau@gmail.comJanuary 11, 20192019, essential, Uncategorized

Every year I look back at my work online to see how my goals and ideas have changed, adapted, and moved to different directions. While I won’t recap my whole history because most don’t care except for me, I will link them here

Looking Back at 2017: Coffeechug Social Media Sharing 

2016, Goals, Productivity, and the Opposite of Doing Nothing 

Analyzing 2015 to make 2016 Super Kick Ass 

Let’s take a look back and analyze what I hoped for in 2018.

My goals for 2018
1. Write more clear and concise with more long form posts
2. My book will finally be ready for launch
3. Clean up video editing for better YouTube videos
4. Develop online classes for learning in the maker world
5. Promote and develop quality computer science curriculum.
My goals for 2019
1. Draft complete for book
2. Develop online courses for payment that lead to credits and more.
3. Push my sharing in new directions that reach a wider audience.
I knocked out 4/5 of these goals with the darn book goal once again looming in the shadows! I cleaned up and overhauled my blog. I shared with a clear purpose this past year and will continue to do so.
My YouTube videos were much more polished with the addition of new software and tools.
I created several online self paced learning courses for teachers and students to use.
I helped create some CS projects for Minecraft and other platforms throughout the year.

Top Posts for Coffee For The Brain

Here are the most popular posts from 2018

YouTube

I had a major focus again on YouTube content. Now that I work with so many schools it is hard to be everywhere at once. I try to document all that I can to have the resources to share out as people need them. This year was a good year for me. I made the 1000 subscriber threshold to keep my account alive and here are the stats.

  • 372,070 watch time in minutes compared to 245,541 minutes in 2017
  • 181,358 views compared to 129,781 in 2017
  • 660 new subscribers compared to 355 in 2017
5 ways to prevent students from sharing a Google Quiz?(number 1 for a second year in a row)
Office Lens + OneNote = Productivity Success!! (moved up to #2 from #3 from year before)
7 Awesome Things To Do With Slime
LEGO EV3 Mindstorms Sumobot Camp 2017
Scratch 4 Arduino: 3 LED Lights
LEGO EV3 Sumobot Coding Tutorial
Tinkercad Tutorial Ruler and Dimensions
Bald Eagle Screech or Hawk? How do you tell the difference?
Fidget Spinner Tutorial Using Tinkercad!(dropped in spot, but still going strong)
LEGO EV3: Move Steering Tutorial

 

I did check on my Twitter and IG stats, but I am not overly concerned with growth in these areas. I want to continue to refine my website to make it more user friendly. While I put in a ton of work to my website I did see quite a drop in readership. I don’t know if that is due to content or to the fact of the new style of the website. I will need to work through logistics and see what I do to improve those numbers. I hope to continue to see the growth on YouTube.
More importantly I don’t want to focus on numbers as much as creating content that is usable and helpful. If I do that, then I know my numbers will speak for themselves.

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