free online training tutorials from Lynda.com available during April 2009 to everyone at UIC

Dear UIC faculty, students and staff,

The Academic Computing and Communications Center (ACCC) is looking to expand and enhance its computer training workshops program.  To that end, we are running a free campus-wide trial of the entire library of the Lynda.com online training tutorials during April.

Lynda.com has over 900 well-done easy-to-jump-around just-in-time self-service tutorials, available  anytime, anywhere, with basic to advanced titles on Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Adobe Creative Suites, Flash, multimedia authoring, Apple Macintosh software, Google Docs, OpenOffice, Podcasting, Blogging, Web Accessibility, Databases, and much more.

Please tell your fellow students, faculty and staff!

Accessing Lynda.com tutorials

• On-campus :: simply visit www.lynda.com, search for a title you wish to explore or take and click away to begin the tutorial(s).
  
  
• Off-campus :: login with your UIC netid and password using the special UIC URL: http://proxy.cc.uic.edu/login?url=http://www.lynda.com and proceed as if you were on campus (see above)

Getting help
For more information, see www.accc.uic.edu/training.html, contact the ACCC Instructional Technology Lab (ITL) at itl@uic.edu or 312-996-9824, or email ACCC Computer Training Workshops directly at workshops@uic.edu.

Please tell us what you think
Tell us what you think about these Lynda.com online tutorials.  Direct your comments (good or bad) to workshops@uic.edu. A survey will be posted at www.accc.uic.edu/training.html by April 15.

Sincerely, 

Ed Garay
Assistant Director for Academic Computing (ACCC)