Hello, this week in I.T we are learning about Excel and how to use it, so part of this course was using Lynda.com to give us tutorials on Excel.
I have prepared a table about its strengths and weaknesses.
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– It gave you step by step instructions with using Excel
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– I found the guy who was instructing, Dennis, somewhat weird and condescending, but it may just be the sort of how to video format
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– It taught me some short cut things I didn’t know before
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– Some of the things were quite easy and seem like common knowledge about backspacing to change text.
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– It gave you real life examples of how the program would be used which gives you perspective
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– If you are a more of a hands on learning it wouldn’t work for you, it would probably be better to have a person with you instructing you instead of a virtual one.
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– I also liked the closed captions which I used as it was easier to follow
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– The course is somewhat formal which I don’t enjoy personally, no sense of humour
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– You can jump around the tutorials to see what you want to learn about as they are titled appropriately
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– Lack of exercises to practice your new skills |
This is a picture of the Lynda.com homepage
I also have found some articles about the disadvantages of online tutorials. But also some advantages.
This is how I feel about spreadsheets, SPREADSHEET ALL THE THINGS!
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