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Get trained with Lynda.com

Evergreen students, staff and faculty have free access to hundreds of online software tutorials at Lynda.com courtesy of Lynda Weinman, ‘76. Evergreen community members can now receive unlimited access to a vast library of high-quality, current, and engaging video tutorials taught by recognized industry experts, simply by logging into my.evergreen.edu and selecting the link under Community.

lynda.com offers hundreds of video tutorials for an enormous range of software including:

  • AutoCAD
  • SPSS
  • Excel and other Office products
  • ProTools and Logic
  • CS5 (Photoshop, InDesign)
  • C++ and Python
  • and lots lots more..

With a Lynda.com account you can save your progress on the lessons and receive updates via email. It’s a great way to improve your skills, learn new technologies and experiment.  Lynda.com adds 24 courses per month, so there is always new stuff to discover.  Check it out and thanks Lynda!!

Why do you come to the Computer Center?

After an exhaustive and highly non-scientific analysis of why you come to the Computer Center, we have the results you have been waiting for.  The winner, of course is free printing followed closely (not too close though) by “I enjoy suffering”.  There is help for you, don’t despair.  There were of course a few choice tidbits offered which we found particularly compelling, not least of which were the following thoughts on why people found themselves in the Computer Center;

  • I can get help if i need it
  • Sanctuary from porn and video games
  • No home internet, plus free printing
  • You 😉
  • GIS software!
  • Freeprinting +internet +secure computers with high speed access, convenient access hours
  • Both free printing & I hate lugging my laptop around

Thanks for participating and please stuff the ballot box in the next “Computer Center Question of the Week”

Our Student Publication: Seeds and Circuits

Seeds and Circuits, a publication of the Academic Computing Center at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.We’re always working on something amazing here at Evergreen’s Academic Computing Center. Our latest masterpiece is an all new student publication: SEEDS AND CIRCUITS.

Take a look at our first issue, if you will. We’d love to have you tell us how TOTALLY AWESOME it is! If you’ve got anything else to say, we’re willing to hear that, too.

Seeds and Circuits is created by the student staff of the Academic Computing Center. It is written and edited BY and FOR students at The Evergreen State College.

We’re on Facebook, too!

Wow! It’s official.

We’ve got a page on FACEBOOK, too. We know you like us, but now you can “like” us!

Our Facebook page is interesting and informative. We’ll keep you posted on need to read things on the Internet and our regular hours as well. Of course, your academic work comes first! But you can’t study all the time, right?

 

Apple’s Grapher

grapher1Whether you’re dealing with 2D or 3D graphs, Apple’s Grapher could be just what you’re looking for. With examples provided for everything from differential equations to a Torus-Knot, and easy tools for animation, you’ll find a lot of reasons to consider how Grapher could help you with your academic work. You can also create or import point sets for graphing.

Grapher is a bundled application on all Macintosh computers using MAC OS X. You’ll find it in under Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities.

More at Apple’s website…

Macworld 2009

Philip Schiller

Philip Schiller

In case you missed the Keynote Address from this year’s Macworld 2009, you can see it here: Macworld 2009 Keynote.

Apple announced DRM-free music as the new standard on their ever popular iTunes music store. Good news for all you iPodders out there. They also announced new versions of iLife (iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, Garageband) and iWork (Keynote, Numbers, Pages).