Computer Basics By Video - The Right Way To Go
When people learn, it’s like they’re walking up a hill:
With each step, you get further up the hill, and you can see a little farther. But you can’t always find the path alone, so you need a hand to guide you further along, farther up the hill, so you can really start to see all the possibilities stretching out around you, and finally understand how it all fits together.
Sometimes I felt like I was way up the hill, and I’d figured out how to run back down the hill and start to lead someone up along the path to really mastering their computer, but I was never able to take them more than a few steps before I had to stop.
Then when I saw them again, the person I was trying to help had either stayed exactly where I’d left them, or had even accidentally walked back down the hill a little ways.
What was happening was a client would call me and book me for a computer lesson. Now, consultants are expensive, so people naturally try to get as much out of the lesson as they can by trying to cover as much as possible in just an hour or two.
But as you probably know from experience, that doesn’t really work that well — if you try to learn too much at once, it just goes in one ear and out the other, and a lot of it just doesn’t sink in.
Short lessons are the key, and learning computer basics by video lesson lets you learn in quick, easy lessons that take the hassle and pain out of computer learning. And a good way to find out if the teacher can explain things well before you buy is to see if they have basic computer lessons written up as articles. If the article is easy to read, chances are the lessons will be easy to follow.
Last modified February 18, 2008Author 2139 > has blogged 19 times
