Just Vlog It- Teach Us Something

Finally, the theme to the Just Vlog It Challenge for the month of March is TEACH US SOMETHING sponsored by The Slanket and brought to you courtesy of Heather @ Notes from Lapland and me!

Your mission…should you choose to accept it…is to:

• Decide on a subject of your vlog.  You can teach us ANYTHING.  How to make bread, how to say “Happy St. David’s Day” in Welsh, the history of St. Patrick’s Day, how to drink a Guiness properly, what your home is like…anything that helps us to learn!
• Record your vlog entry.  Remember to keep your video to around 4 minutes.  Any longer and we get too tired!
• Upload your video to the platform of your choice.
• Create a post on your site with the vlog embedded.
• Send us the link to your post:  justvlogit[at]hotmail[dot][com] by TUESDAY 9 MARCH (midnight)
• Come back to Cafe Bebe on Thursday 11 March to see if you are one of the lucky 2 vlog posts up for the public vote.  If you aren’t, fear ye not…your post will still be included in our Just Vlog It Teach Us Something Carnival on Monday 15 March at Notes from Lapland.  But still take the time to vote here at Cafe Bebe for the BEST VLOG on Thursday & Friday 11/12 March.  Your fellow vloggers will love you for it.
• Saturday 13 March the winning vlogger will be announced here at Cafe Bebe!  The winner will be the lucky recipient of a SLANKET like this one (the colour will be announced later this week…this is just an example):

It’s just that simple!  We’re giving you until next Tuesday because we know how tricky it can be to get time to vlog and upload and post.  The weekend might be a great time to get all of this done.  I’ve vlogged some helpful tips on how to have a successful parent vlog and there are some other great vlogs out there like Heather’s vlog tour of her farm.  I happened to record a little vlog for another challenge altogether about how to dance like a Disney Princess which ought to give you all the inspiration you might need…or put you off vlogging altogether!

If I can impart one bit of wisdom, in my minimal experience with vlogging, what makes a successful vlog is the willingness to look silly.  I don’t mean that your vlog has to be goofy and crazy (there’s certainly a place for that!) but you have to be willing to let the world see you “warts and all” and not care.  You are not going to be a raving beauty or hunky hunk (well, maybe Tim at Bringing Up Charlie would be), you’re going to be yourself.  That’s what we want to see.  Try not to plan it out too much or stress over it and do take after take.  Try to do one or two takes and let it roll.  Be organic!  I think, in my humble opinion, it translates better.

So, now it’s over to you!  You have until Tuesday 9 March to get your vlog posts up and your links to us.  The winner will be able to wrap up in a gorgeous, snuggly, cuddly Slanket and the rest of us will learn something and probably have a good laugh or two in the process.  This is meant to be fun!  Heather and I are really excited to be bringing you this challenge…we hope you’ll dive in along with us.  Good luck and HAPPY VLOGGING!