I brag about the classes of Marina Shipova at Peninsula College, this one is about MEDIA 201 in real life all of the time. especially to seniors as I am doing tech support. I run across them all of the time who now have free time to dabble in photography and play with programs like Photoshop on their own and have always wanted to make their own book or put out good looking images in their email newsletters but have no idea how to improve what they started or make their ideas come true. However, they are thirsty for knowledge, and if I recommend a certificate of a few short classes in what they want, they have NO idea that is available at all. The seniors are surprised when I reassure them I have made friends with quite a few fellow senior students at PC! I recommend the short certificates to younger ages who want to improve their creating skills as well,
Online class is excellent because you can rewind the techniques at your leisure and Marina Shipova and she is extremely capable of teaching techniques with no book to follow at all…but this time around it had a WORKBOOK to follow along with where you use the files in the lessons. It is EXTREMELY helpful to have a book that is further clarified by an instructor as you go, alot of books don’t offer online tutors as you go, instead they pretty much leave you on your own, but she encourages you to use your own material after each lesson for the actual grade which DOES ensure you understood it enough to repeat! It is hard for me to come up with a suggestion…however, perhaps for students that are slower learners or have fulltime time constraints outside of school, maybe just OBS recordings of following the lessons to prove you are doing the lessons like a basic class and a challenge path class for going above and beyond with your own image? The most important thing is to KEEP up with the pace of the class because Adobe had multiple things to learn in each chapter!
