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!
This sounds so exciting! Mine will be how to plant carrots! I only realized last night night carrots started off as seeds. :/
cool! can’t wait to see the entries!
I know…it’s all a bit exciting!
Ooh, yay! I need to learn that. Attempting gardening with Little Miss this spring. How handy that will be!
I’ve posted mine today (but I’m afraid it’s about 4 and a half minutes long so understand if I’m disqualified).
http://crystaljigsaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/farm-walk.html
Well done love…the length is fine. We just don’t want 5-6 min entries is all! No worries!
Now you’ve frozen me in indecisiveness. Really! I had planned a couple of instructional vlogs, but now that there’s a competition on I feel like they’re not good enough – educational and entertaining; to delight and instruct; aristotle would be proud, but I’m just frozen!
Oh, go on! Vlogging is for everyone. Give our challenge a go and you’ll find yourself enjoying the inspiration, I think. It’s not about winning, really…just getting in there. Come on and join us…;)
I so agree with your comment above – vlogging is for everyone! Go for it Dara.
I love vlogging! I have a weekly vlogging challenge with a theme, but no prize. Would love to give yours a whirl also.
Teach something? But for someone like me, that’s far too much like working. Still, might have a go. Might. Not promising.
PS: I don’t think I’ve ever been called a ‘hunky hunk’ before… I hope you meant it!!
Thanks Hunky Hunk…we’d love to see you in on the fun!
Yes, Jendi, please do! I’ve put a discussion on our British Mummy Bloggers Vlogging Group linking to your site for newbies. Great stuff you have…we should link to each other.
Thanks for commenting and we’d definitely welcome your participation in our Just Vlog It challenge! 
Ok, mine is done too (very nervous as a first timer). Link: http://thekingandeye.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-sons-voice.html
Good luck to everyone who enters:)
Jen
Well, I did have a go… And here it is: http://www.bringingupcharlie.co.uk/2010/03/just-vlog-it.html
So impressed and rather touched Tim!
Thanks so much for your effort. I’m gonna give that recipe a go this week! 
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here’s my entry (and @glowstars)!!!!
I’m teaching you how to embarrass loads of people at once…
It is over 5 min long sorry… I was going to shorten it but with all the running from and to hospital for the past couple of days I didn;t have time…
anyways…. here it goes!
http://urbanvox.net/wordpress/2010/04/just-vlog-it-how-to-embarrass-a-bunch-of-people/