Hasn't been updated in years, but still relevant if you don't mind reading the wall of text.
I think nowadays, the proliferation of educational streams on Twitch.tv could easily supplant the utility of this document. Streamers like Winter (twitch.tv/wintergaming) or pro-gamers like Grubby (twitch.tv/followgrubby) or CatZ (twitch.tv/CatZ) or Minigun (twitch.tv/colminigun) are a great resource, and are usually pretty good at answering specific questions and providing good tips to newbies.
My problem with videos is that to cover a ~30 page document of material, they'll stretch it in to dozens of videos and take >2-3 hours of time.
I can read such a document in <1 hour of time, and find it much less fatiguing than trying to deal with a several hour lecture on the same topic.
In general, I find that videos are good to relay a particular skill by demonstration, and discuss one topic, but that very often, they're a poor medium to convey a large amount of material I want to learn all of at once, especially if I'm going to want to jump around or cross reference at all.
Ed: Case in point, I've already skimmed the whole document (I skipped over the details of some specific exercises), and would feel much more comfortable picking a video to start with, because I have a general sense of the recommended training path, the exercises involved, etc. I just find it hard to get the same general sense of something from a video.
I started SC2 about a year ago and I wrote down everything I learned during this year. Now I am top gold with low APM but I can play macro and I have a startegy at the beginning of the game. I play about 2 games per day and I have fun all the time :) I started to store this information in a Moodle course.
I'm still working on the course content when I have time (creating a course content takes aaages) and I am often using the site to create Moodle prototypes so the design may change regularly. But the good thing is that I do provide a full methodology path, I organized the course into different lessons. I also took some lessons with few progamers and even got the course reviewed by a pro SC2 coach with more than 1000 hours of coaching. I don't know anyone who followed my course but if you do, contact me I would be interested to know if it works for others :)
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Hasn't been updated in years, but still relevant if you don't mind reading the wall of text.
I think nowadays, the proliferation of educational streams on Twitch.tv could easily supplant the utility of this document. Streamers like Winter (twitch.tv/wintergaming) or pro-gamers like Grubby (twitch.tv/followgrubby) or CatZ (twitch.tv/CatZ) or Minigun (twitch.tv/colminigun) are a great resource, and are usually pretty good at answering specific questions and providing good tips to newbies.
My problem with videos is that to cover a ~30 page document of material, they'll stretch it in to dozens of videos and take >2-3 hours of time.
I can read such a document in <1 hour of time, and find it much less fatiguing than trying to deal with a several hour lecture on the same topic.
In general, I find that videos are good to relay a particular skill by demonstration, and discuss one topic, but that very often, they're a poor medium to convey a large amount of material I want to learn all of at once, especially if I'm going to want to jump around or cross reference at all.
Ed: Case in point, I've already skimmed the whole document (I skipped over the details of some specific exercises), and would feel much more comfortable picking a video to start with, because I have a general sense of the recommended training path, the exercises involved, etc. I just find it hard to get the same general sense of something from a video.
I started SC2 about a year ago and I wrote down everything I learned during this year. Now I am top gold with low APM but I can play macro and I have a startegy at the beginning of the game. I play about 2 games per day and I have fun all the time :) I started to store this information in a Moodle course.
You can find the course at http://bepaw.com
I'm still working on the course content when I have time (creating a course content takes aaages) and I am often using the site to create Moodle prototypes so the design may change regularly. But the good thing is that I do provide a full methodology path, I organized the course into different lessons. I also took some lessons with few progamers and even got the course reviewed by a pro SC2 coach with more than 1000 hours of coaching. I don't know anyone who followed my course but if you do, contact me I would be interested to know if it works for others :)
I'll give it a try. If I stick with it for long enough, I'll let you know how I'm doing.
Super phaus, you can contact me at mouneyrac at gmail dot com. Cheers.
I feel the same about certain lectures, but sometimes it's just the prof's fault.