I’m preparing to introduce a class of English majors to Blender3D.
Many of the online tutorials I’ve found spend way too much time introducing the interface, which is of course worth some attention because it is non-standard, and in the days before YouTube, I remember being so confused by it that I gave up on Blender, only to come back again later when I found James Chronister’s awesome tutorial (sadly a little out-of-date now).
At any rate, this video crash course does a good job.