Summer Fun with new classes at Lynda.com

Lynda.com

Did you know that EVERYONE at Columbia College Chicago has access to the entire professional library of training videos and courses at Lynda.com for FREE?  That's access to over 60,000 videos and classes!  An individual subscription to Lynda.com would normally cost $375, but you have access to all of the videos and classes at no cost!

Try Out Some Lynda.com Classes Over the Summer

Here are some new classes that are being offered this summer by Lynda.com.  Learn some new skills and start getting prepared for your Fall Classes today!

• Managing Your Career
• iPhone Photography, from Shooting to Storytelling
• iPad Tips and Tricks
• Flickr Essential Training
• Family Photography: Taking and Sharing Great Photographs
• Effective Meetings
• Creating Photo Books with Blurb
• Facebook Essential Training
• Time Management Fundamentals
• Twitter Essential Training
• Creating a Vacation Video with iMovie

How to Access Lynda.com

You can click HERE to access Columbia's Lynda.com subscription.  Also, Students, Faculty and Staff can access Lynda.com on or off-campus through their OASIS account.  For detailed information about Lynda.com and  how to access Lynda.com through OASIS click here.

TED-ED a new Online Learning Platform

TED, the non-profit organization famous for "Ideas Worth Spreading,"  launched a new online learning platform today as part of its new  TED-Ed education initiative (http://ed.ted.com).

Back in March, TED launched a YouTube Channel channel dedicated to educational videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDEducation).

The new education platform launched today, TED-Ed features a suite of tools that allow teachers to create their own lessons based on TED videos or any video found on YouTube.  

Teachers can use the pre-made lessons created by TED, customize the TED lessons for their own classes or create new lessons using TED videos or videos found on YouTube.  The TED created videos come with supplementary resources including multiple-choice questions, open-answer questions, and links to more information about the subject.  Teachers can "flip" or customize the TED-Ed lessons to suit their particular curricular needs.  If a teacher "flips" a lesson or creates their own lesson from a TED or YouTube video, the new lesson is given its own private web page that can be distributed to students.  Individual student progress can then be tracked as they complete the assignments.

"The new website is all about what teachers and students can do with those videos," says TED-Ed's Logan Smalley.  "The goal of TED-Ed is for each great lesson to reach and motivate as many learners as possible.  The new website goes a step further, allowing any teacher to tailor video content, create unique lesson plans, and monitor students' progress.   By putting this new technology to use, we hope to maximize time in class and give teachers an exciting tool for customizing  - and encouraging - learning."

More information about TED-Ed can be found at:

The Digital Education Revolution, Cont'd:  Meet TEC-Ed's New Online Learning Platform

TED Launched Revamped Education Platform

TED-Ed Hits the Classroom with New Video Website

VIDEO: The Language of War Panel

What language do we use to talk about war? How does this language affect our understanding of war and impact those who fight? On April 13 the Library hosted “The Language of War”, a panel discussion that included combat veterans and anti-war activists exploring these questions as part of The Big Read, featuring Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War classic The Things They Carried.

The panelists were Pat Hunt, from the Chicago chapter of CodePink, Vietnam War combat veteran Barry Romo, Iraq War combat veteran Anthony Wagner, and Louis Silverstein, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Columbia College Chicago as moderator and panelist. Some highlights:

Anthony Wagner

Barry Romo