Like my name suggests, I'm really a newbie when it comes to knives. Sure, I've owned/used knives since I was in grade school, but my experience level seems to be fairly low compared to most on here and other knife boards. When my dad taught me how to sharpen knives when I was about 10, he taught me to do a flat grind on a soft Arkansas stone, and for the most part, my blades have always done what I've needed. Now that I've been reading posts here and on other boards, I'm learning about convex grind and Scandi grind (among others), and I'm not sure where I might go to learn about these.

After all that, here are my questions:
1) What online resources can you point me to, so I can learn about the different grinds and what pros/cons each have?
2) What is the best way to learn each sharpening method? I'd love to learn 1st hand from somebody that knows what they're doing, but I doubt whether anybody has "knife sharpening symposiums"!

Thanks for the input, gang. I'm just trying to learn...

Nick