Build Your Tech Skills This Summer

School's out for summer!  Congratulations to all of the CAIS faculty and staff on wrapping up a terrific school year.

While you are enjoying your time off this summer, why not take advantage of your free time and learn a new technology skill?  CAIS recently subscribed to lynda.com, a website with thousands of classes you can take on subjects such as digital photography, video, software, basic computer use, operating systems...the list goes on and on!  Peter Moore described this as being like "great surf, Christmas, and my birthday all rolled into one."


Take a look at Lynda and see what courses interest you.  You can watch just one short tutorial per day (each video is about 2 minutes long) and complete a course in no time at all.  You will learn more about a topic than you ever thought possible!


Here is how to get started:

1. While you are on campus at 150 Oak St. (you cannot set up an account from home), go to: http://iplogin.lynda.com
2. Click "Create a Profile"
3. Sign up using your CAIS email address
4. Start using lynda.com!  (Once you have signed up, you will be able to access Lynda from anywhere.)

Hope that you enjoy using lynda.com!  We think it will be a terrific resource for our faculty in providing another way to build new technology skills.  The beauty of lynda.com is that you can access it anytime, anywhere, whenever it is convenient for you.

From all of us here in the IT Department, we wish you and your families a fun, relaxing, rejuvenating summer break!