Any good books/courses on GIMP

[John Macdonald]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 04:28:26PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 7/16/05, Zbigniew Koziol <zkoziol-Zd07PnzKK1IAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > To learn something - just continue to use it, Courses will not help
> > much. I would never ever take any courses in my life by my will. I got a
> > PhD (in physics) by _not_ attending lectures and excersises when I was
> > student.
> 
> I have to disagree.
> 
> There are aspects of GIMP that require understanding its "layering"
> model of operations.
> 
> There are quite a few things I can do with GIMP without understanding
> layers, and, if the uses can be restricted to that, I could learn more
> "just by fiddling with it."
> 
> But grokking the layer abstraction takes some understanding, whether
> that come via a course or some other equivalent means.
> 
> You can fiddle almost infinitely with the menus and icon bars without
> that providing an understanding of layers.  It takes something else to
> provide that understanding...

Additionally, there is the issue of Multiple Intelligence.
Basically, that says that there are many ways of learning (7,
if I recall correctly).  Each person responds to each of the
learning methods at their own rate - generally each person has
2 or 3 of the methods that work well, 2 or 3 that don't work
at all for them, and the other ones are somewhere in between.
The different methods are not totally orthoganal, but it's
fairly close.

A good teacher will teach the same material in different ways -
the students who learn well in the first way (or in most ways)
will be bored by the repetition, but the ones that only respond
to a smaller number of methods will suddenly get it on the
3'rd or 4'th time around.  The teacher will also learn which
methods that work best with each student, and tailor their
one-on-one interactions appropriately.

A poor technique for a teacher is to teach only to one of the
forms (e.g. only using words) - that will only be effective
with those students who respond well to that form.

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