 Now I wanted to a few people asked who the heck I was because I've been popping up on other groups and it's been shared And so people were wondering who is this guy and what is he all about and I've shared a little bit about my story But I just want to show you what I am all about online So this is gonna be a real quick one if you could do me a favor though Or let me do you a favor if you're looking for online resources resources It's easy for me to say I've only had one cup of coffee today If you're looking for online resources for electricians definitely go to the top of this if you're on the Facebook page Hit that learn more button, and I will blast you an email and It'll have the PDF in it. It's pretty awesome So here we go I'm gonna show you what I what I've kind of created the Electric Academy. It's something that I started three years ago I'm an electrical instructor, and I also am a contractor So I'm out in the field a lot as well as teaching a lot of students And I thought it'd be nice to have some sort of thing online some online support for electricians and for apprentices So that's where I came up with this idea of the Electric Academy My students were always talking about how they wish that they could have access to my lectures after class so that they could have an Understanding of the theory so that why don't I start making these videos for them so that they have a little study aid So that's kind of how it started and then I started blogging Which is just basically writing articles towards apprentices and apprenticeship and my thoughts on that I started sharing it on Facebook so then I started a Facebook page and a Facebook group So let me start with that and share my screen here with you guys. I love it. It's something I've been doing for a while now So let me share the screen here if I go to the Electric Academy Here we go. This is my page or no, this is the group. No, this is the page. Sorry. Let me just close this down This is the page So this is where you guys are seeing when I talk about always talking about this click learn more button That's this button right here. If you click on that, then I just get your email and I send you that Let's keep on going down. This is basically where I post all these Facebook live videos So this is the one I'm on right now. You can see live. There's three you watching. Hey, three guys and Some stuff in the store. I'm not even gonna get into that. Let's get into the loading here Anyways, this is a page now The only problem with this page is only basically the stuff that I post you guys can see you guys can see some Stuff on the side here But unless you're looking for it, you're not gonna find it and I found that to be a problem because I'm trying to create a community here So what I did was I started a Facebook group So if you go to so this is just a they call it a business page or whatever That's your Facebook business page, but you can go to a group So I started the Electric Academy and online resource for electrical apprentices. This is a group and Right now there's 1200 members 34 new two people want to join this group Now to get in this group you have to answer some really hard questions as in the two questions Let me get rid of that are are you an electrician or an apprentice and what's owns law? You answer those two things and you are in like Flynn get it So here's again now the thing with this is you guys can post whatever you want on this So it's not just me posting all the time I mean there's a lot of stuff that I post but There's other guys that can post and it just shows up on the wall The group is great this group particularly I like because there's lots of answers if you have any questions at all on anything Electrical they are in there and they're letting you give you answers. I really appreciate about this group It's a really engaged group. I try to keep all the trolling and there's definitely no union non-union discussion in this group I just try to keep it as we're all electricians here. We're all trying to learn we're all trying to help each other out So that's my Facebook group not to be confused with the Facebook page, which is where I do all these live streams from Now another thing that I did was I started a YouTube channel a few years ago, and this is where I store all my All my videos that I do all these little tutorial videos and let me show you I've got the Facebook videos that I'm doing now I just upload here. I if we go to DC fundamentals I've got these stored into playlists and I'm constantly adding to these Combination circuits how to determine the voltage across the line break ohms law series circuit DC series circuit And I've got some more that are coming up really really soon because I've already built the template I just have to record them. So again, let's go back to the playlists These are my playlists, but there's a ton of stuff in here AC principles AC generation Transformers trigonometry for electricians electronics tons of stuff in here. I believe there are 20 yep 2500 subscribers to this channel. So again lots of people talking on the videos themselves If you have questions definitely ask on the video And if you're on this YouTube channel, please do me a favor head over here and hit subscribe That way you guys keep in the nose to the videos that I got coming out and then there's a flagship. Let me show you this This is my website and on my website I have my home and on my home you can sign up for like there's the newsletter Which I send out once a week on Wednesdays this week is going to be all about Online apps for electricians to use so you might want if you want to join the Academy Join the Academy if you want to join the newsletter This is great because I'm really up in my game on this one making sure there's lots of valuable content going out So this Wednesday 10 10 apps that electricians can use those join this if you want that Here's the latest blog post down at the bottom now. Here's my about page. Just taking you through the pages and There we go. So a little a little thing about me where I came from and why the electric I basically what I'm doing with this right now the store. I'm not here to sell anything. So I'm not going to talk about it I just want to show you guys the blog. I'm changing the name to this to SAS K And it's going to be stuff apprentices should know that's a bit of a steal from John workman and his awesome page Stuff electricians should know if you are on into the Facebook groups Make sure you check that place out stuff electricians should know He's got an amazing podcast They're like between five to 15 minutes and they're just completely jam-packed full of value He talks about ground faults lightning arrest all that stuff. It's very technical But it's very awesome and John's got a great way of talking about things. So he's got stuff electricians should know I'm going to steal a little bit off and I have and rename my blog stuff apprentices should know Thanks, John. So this is all where I put my blog stuff and it's got some good stuff in it This stuff I'm the biggest thing. I'm proud of is the video tutorials. So down here. I've got AC theory electronics transformers DC theory DC inductors DC capacitors Constantly adding to this stuff because like I said, I'm constantly building these videos for my students and then I do them into little tutorials I'll show you what I'm talking about here. Let's go to DC theory. I'll click on that And you have to wait. I guess the server is a little slow today Here's why I did on the broken neutral Here's one I did on combination circuits Which are the bane of a lot of first-year second-year apprentices when they're going to school really frustrating for some in this little story I've got the video So that's off there and then I've got a little write-up So it's like a little textbook and just I break down and go walk through the whole thing I do this for all of my posts. So make sure you check this out If you are struggling with anything as far as theories concerned, it's generally going to be in this area Transformers I've got a ton on transformers because I found transformers are really tricky for a lot of students So I'm just constantly adding to that So you get I got tons of stuff on transformers and I love doing these videos So if you guys have stuff you need done or you're struggling with as far as theory is concerned Let me know and I totally have no problem building these little videos for you guys I find them lots of fun and worth doing. So let me just get back to the screen here so I can talk to you guys Let me just pull this up There we go So that's it. That's some Basically a walkthrough of what I'm doing with the Electric Academy Again, it's just the big ones are the flagship is the web page. So check that out The next thing is the YouTube channel if you're looking for videos That's a good place to go also taking these Facebook live videos and uploading them there Then you've got the Facebook group which all you have to do is answer two questions Are you an electrician and what's ohm's law v equals i times r or if you want to go r is equal to v over i any which way you want to look at that and Then I've got the Facebook page which is where I'm sending these setting up these Facebook live videos if You guys have anything else you want talked about and I really appreciate I've gotten lots and lots of feedback I just want more and more guys getting engaged here So let me know if there's any other things that you want to have talked about make sure you're checking out that That PDF I've sent out for free of that online resources for electricians and remember sign up for the newsletter It's worth it because like I said this Wednesday It is all about online applications for Electricians and there's lots of good stuff if you know me You know I'm gonna talk a little bit about Evernote and that but there's nine more so there's lots of other good ones out There as well yeah, it is what I wanted to get out there and just to do a quick one on this stuff I appreciate all your guys's feedback check out yesterday's posts. It went crazy Just lots of good discussion try to keep the trolling in the F use and the bombs down maybe a little bit I don't really like that the whole people picking on other people that generally gets your comments going to be deleted All right, so I'm loving doing this. Let me know if there's anything else you guys want to see Click like on the page if you will like this video if you like it Share this video if you know somebody who's going through school and is going to have some struggles with the theory stuff because again I would love to be able to help out. All right. Thanks a lot guys I hope you're having a great day work safe out there, and we will probably talk to you I'll get a side job to do tomorrow, but possibly tomorrow afternoon. All right work safe. Talk to you later guys. Bye