Extra Credit for Lynda.com

Lynda.com is a pretty useful website. I looked around a bit and found a few things of note. The videos that I saw were very clear and well-produced. I looked at some tutorials for Photoshop, iPad, and MS Word, and the information I found was expansive. However, I did get a kick out of the iPad tutorial. I would think that if a person were tech-savvy enough to know about this website and know how to use it, that person would also be able to figure out how to use a relatively user-friendly iPad without the help of the online tutorial. Nevertheless, I'll likely find myself back in that section of the website, just to make sure I did not miss anything.

It also seems to be a sort of in-between service, as far as the content goes. Hundreds of authors are listed, so I would suppose that they are not all official Lynda.com employees. However, not just anyone can upload a video tutorial and post it, which adds some measure of validity to the content.

The website contained information on many more pieces of software than I have ever heard of. My experience with software certainly is not a standard of breadth. But with so many obscure-sounding types of software, I'm confident the site has information on all the most broadly-used software would be included. So if I ever had a question about how to use a certain piece of software, I would likely find what I'm looking for at this website.

P.S.-I also looked up how to share an Adobe Captivate file. The videos that describe how to do it add up to less than 20 minutes. Darn it. I could've saved a lot of time if I had just looked it up in Lynda.com. Oh well.