Lynda.com

I've been working through my Lynda tutorials and while I do find them helpful in some regards, I also find them to be giant time suckers. Some of the stuff that is covered is so elementary that it's pretty freakin excruciating to sit through . . . I know how to open a new document and make a text box! I'll keep plowing through them though!

Well now that Lynda.com is over, I suppose that means it is reflection time, I might have already typed this post once, fallen asleep on my computer and accidentally had my hand held down on the "c" key which then wrote over all of the text I already had....ooops!
There were some aspects of the Lynda.com training that I found to be quite useful, and others not so much. I worked through all of the typography unit and I thought it was pretty useful and applicable. What I found most useful was all the keyboard shortcuts that the videos shared. I use a lot of them all the time now! I took notes over some parts, but I wish I would have taken more detailed notes over the videos in general so that I could have a reference to look back on now. I tried going through some of the Photoshop and  Illustrator videos but for the most part I found them to be painfully boooorrrriiinnnggg! Yes, I already know how to open a new file, and yes, I know how to crop a picture. I feel like some of these videos could be utilized at the beginning of the semester for first year viscommies, but beyond that many of them are too basic. Most people who are wanting to get a degree in graphic design already know the basics of most adobe software.
I think it would be more useful if there was a way that we could have access to the site when we needed to look up a particular thing, like how to make lightning in Ps or how to trouble shoot in Id.
I definitely think that with some adjustments and tweaking that the Lynda site could be utilized in lower level curriculum in semesters to come.
Oh and I didn't end up finishing all of the courses. I skimmed through most of them to some extent and like I said I finished the one on typography. But when it came to prioritizing time for other homework and the not so high level of usefulness of the videos, they got put on the back burner.