Database design seemed like an interesting topic to my nerdy life, so I decided to give it a whirl. I thought that it was a pretty good course that described what a SQL database is and what it was used for. The introduction was an easy read with some great functionality that caught my eye. They outlined diagrams in a different color, they gave critical thinking questions through the passages, while also giving the answers to each of them. So you read the question, and below you can click on the solution link which pops down the answer below. I found this very helpful.
The second functionality I found to be extrememly helpful was the organization of the information. There wasn’t any long paragraphs that bored you, they were broken up into smaller paragraphs with bullet points, critical thinking questions, etc. I especially liked the nice figure diagrams to go along with the section. They also had links in the paragraph to go to each figure diagram.
I feel like I learned alot about organization techniques in this course. I find that it did not have any video / audio to help me out with. But one of my favorite all time learning sites is www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/ . They do a great job of code examples, video, and audio.
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I’m glad you found a site that was organized so well and helped you expand some of your skills. Hopefully, the site gave you some ideas on what you want to do in your site.
I believe you are right about having video/audio to help users along in the learning process. They help out a great deal when you are try to grasp a new concept.
Actually, that database design lesson might be good for me to check out too– where is the link to it? I like that you pointed out that for text information, that is important to break them it into digestible parts. And also distinguishing information by color can be helpful to users.
Random: I found this kind of interesting article on how to use color appropriately for people with colorblindness if you’re interested…
http://particletree.com/features/interfaces-and-color-blindness/