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A Look @ Social Networking and Your Program  |
| So you've heard the talk about social networking (Facebook, Twitter or YouTube) but you're just not sure what all that means and whether you should spend your time doing something social at work. This training will give an overview of a few social networking sites and discuss uses and benefits of each. Give us a little bit of your time and we'll help you understand social networking a little more. |
| Adobe Connect (Breeze) Overview |
| Adobe Connect is a web conferencing tool for meetings and presentations.
With Adobe Connect, you can meet and communicate with your colleagues across the state or out of the state. You can deliver presentations, updates, and training without any travel. All this can be done from your computer in your office or anywhere that has high-speed Internet. But, you do need to understand how to use Adobe Connect for these different purposes. The objectives for this training are: (1) Explain the Adobe Connect meeting space; (2) Discuss different uses; (3) What equipment you need; (4) Best Practices: (5) More learning opportunities
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| Adobe Connect: Creating Meeting Rooms |
| Join us during this session to learn to create Adobe Connect meeting rooms. We will teach you to use the Adobe Connect Management Console to create new meeting rooms, how to set room security, how to register users for a room, how to identify what users have logged into the room and how to use your My Content area within the Management Console. |
| Adobe Connect - DIY Tech Support |
This series is designed to teach Adobe Connect meeting hosts/moderators the skills necessary to handle the most common technical issues/needs that arise during Adobe Connect meetings, webinars, training sessions. We will also share some things you can do to prevent these from occurring during your session.
Some of the topics participants will learn (and practice) during this session include:
PREREQUISITE: Participants MUST have some experience using Adobe Connect as a host or presenter.
If you have questions about this session, please email Jacki Weikert (jweikert@psu.edu) or Sherry Crum (scrum@psu.edu) to discuss your current level of Adobe Connect expertise and get added to the class roster. |
| Adobe Connect - DIY Tech Support |
This session is part 1 of a 2 part series designed to teach Adobe Connect meeting hosts/moderators the skills necessary to handle the most common technical issues/needs that arise during Adobe Connect meetings, webinars, training sessions.
Some of the topics participants will learn (and practice) during this series include:
PREREQUISITE: Participants MUST have some experience using Adobe Connect as a host or presenter. |
| Adobe Connect - Getting Started |
| Adobe Connect is a web conferencing tool you can use for meetings, trainings, and presentations. With Adobe Connect, you can meet and communicate with your colleagues across the state or out of the state. You can deliver presentations, updates, and training without any travel. All this can be done from your computer in your office or anywhere that has high-speed Internet. But, you do need to understand how to use Adobe Connect for these different purposes. This training will focus on 1) how to get a meeting created; 2) what do the windows (or pods) do, 3) discuss different uses; 4) explain what equipment you need; 5) and what other training opportunities do you have.
This training will be delivered via Adobe Connect using your browswer so no travel is required. You will receive information to access the Adobe Connect meeting space prior to the training. If you have questions, please email one of the Educational Technologists: Jacki Weikert (mailto:jxs138@psu.edu), Sherry Crum (mailto:slg161@psu.edu); Ron Matason (mailto:ram5@psu.edu), or Peg Shuffy (mailto:pshuffy@psu.edu). |
| Adobe Connect v8 - Looking at the New Interface |
| Adobe Connect will be upgraded to v8 on May 7 & 8. Version 8 has a new look and a little different feel. During this session, we will show you how to participate and interact via Chat and Microphone. You'll have time to practice too. |
| Adobe Connect v8 - What's New for Presenters/Hosts |
| Adobe Connect will be upgraded to v8 on May 7 & 8. Version 8 has some new or enhanced features that Presenters and Hosts can take advantage of during webinars and meetings. During this session, we will show you how to use the Attendee list to promote/demote attendee, load files to the Share Pod, Use the Q&A Pod, plus others. You'll have time to practice as well. |
| Adobe Connect: Working with Recordings |
| Join us during this session to learn how you can work with Adobe Connect recordings. During the session, we will teach you how to create an Adobe Connect recording, how to do basic editing, how to make recordings available to the public and how to review statistics on how many people have viewed the recordings. |
| Create a Podcast |
| This will be the hands-on time to learn how to use Audacity recording software to create a podcast and how to upload your finished product to iTunesU and other locations. Install Audacity on your computer, have a headset with a microphone ready and your script and let's get started Podcasting!
Prerequisites: Learn what a podcast is? How to find a podcast and listen to it? What equipment do I need? Learn the 7 reasons to create or NOT create a podcast!
These prerequisites will be offered via Adobe Connect recordings available at our Self-Paced Training page - http://it.cas.psu.edu/SelfPaced.htm
Click on "What is a Podcast? How do I listen to one?"
and "7 Reasons to Podcast"
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| Creating Multimedia Presentations with Adobe Presenter |
| Would you like to take your existing PowerPoint presentations and turn them into captivating multimedia experiences and e-learning opportunities for your users? Adobe Presenter provides a simple interface for using a microphone to add audio narration to your presentation. In addition, you can easily synchronize your PowerPoint animations with your audio narration. This hands-on training is for Windows computer users only and will guide you through adding audio to an existing PowerPoint presentation and publishing the file so that you can upload it to a Web site.
Objectives for the training:
What you need for class: * Ordering information for Adobe Presenter software: Order Adobe Presenter from the Penn State Computer Store (http://computerstore.psu.edu) The license and media (CD) is $75. |
| Excel Essentials |
| This hands-on training introduces users to Microsoft Excel 2007 or 2010. You will enter data and learn how to make changes to gain an understanding of the capabilities of the program. There are many features of Excel that will assist you in creating great looking spreadsheets and charts: non-formula data entry, simple formulas, formatting, creating charts, and creating new worksheet.
This is part of 2 session series, so please register and plan to attend all sessions in the series. This training will be delivered via Adobe Connect using Internet Explorer so no travel is required. You will receive information to access the Adobe Connect meeting space and the phone number to dial for the audio portion prior to the training. This Essentials class is the same as our Basics class. |
| How To Host a Webinar via Adobe Connect |
| You've attended a webinar and decided that this delivery method would work for your program area. BUT, you're just not sure what is involved in conducting a Webinar. This training will give you information on what you need to know to host a Webinar and what tasks need to be done. Join us to learn how you can be an effective Webinar host. There are no pre-requisites but you may want to attend the Adobe Connect Getting Started to understand more about Adobe Connect. This training will be delivered via Adobe Connect using Internet Explorer so no travel is required. You will need to have a headset with microphone or a table microphone for this training. If you need to purchase a microphone, please check out Penn State's Computer Store: https://computerstore.psu.edu. Search on headset and mircrophone. We recommend the Logitech Clear Chat brand. If you have questions, please email one of the Educational Technologists: Jacki Weikert (mailto:jxs138@psu.edu), Sherry Crum (mailto:slg161@psu.edu); Ron Matason (mailto:ram5@psu.edu), or Peg Shuffy (mailto:pshuffy@psu.edu). |
| Introduction to Facebook |
| Have you heard of Facebook but afraid to get started? Maybe you aren't sure what it is or how it can be used for your team or office? This session is for you! We'll give you an overview of Facebook but also discuss how you can use it effectively with your work team or your office or even a 4-H club or Master Gardener club. A Facebook account is not required for the session. Bring your questions and we'll try to get them answered. |
| Introduction to Twitter |
| Have you heard of Twitter or Tweets but have no idea what it is or what they are? This session will give you the basics of Twitter and how it can be used to share and gather information. A Twitter account is NOT required for the session. Bring your questions and we'll try get them answered. |
| Introduction to Video Planning and Production |
Learn the basic steps in planning and shooting a compelling video! Topics will include developing your ideas, writing a script, storyboarding and compiling a shot list. We will also discuss some best practices for acquiring video, still images, sound and other assets for later editing. This will be a seminar-type & discussion session to be held in Adobe Connect. Hands-on video editing workshops will be offered at future times. |
| ITChatter - |
| Join the Ag IT team and invited speakers for lunch conversations about different technologies and their uses. We will be meeting monthly for a new ITChatter series.
This month's session will be looking at Windows 7. Participants are asked to arrive in the Adobe Connect meeting room (http://breeze.psu.edu/ITChatter) at noon. The chatter gets started at 12:15 and will wrap up by 12:50. You can join us each month or participate in just the chatters that interest you. The topics vary so visit this site again! |
| ITChatter session |
| Join the Ag IT team and invited speakers for lunch conversations about different technologies and their uses. We will be meeting monthly for a new ITChatter series.
Participants are asked to arrive in the Adobe Connect meeting room (http://breeze.psu.edu/ITChatter) at noon. The chatter gets started at 12:15 and will wrap up by 12:50. You can join us each month or participate in just the chatters that interest you. The topics vary so be sure to check out our Training page. |
| Manipulate your Photos with Picture Manager |
| Do you take a lot of pictures? Do you want to insert them in newsletters and presentations but they are too large? Do you need to remove Red Eye, crop and resize your photos? This hands-on-training will use software called MS Picture Manager that will help you with all of these issues. |
| Marketing Materials Best Practices |
| Are your marketing materials grabbing people's attention? Are you capturing a broad audience? This session will provide brochure design tips for your materials and cover best practices on better photo selection and where you can find good photos. |
| Office 2007: Creating Mail Merges |
NOTE: THIS SESSION IS BEING HELD FACE-TO-FACE IN 116 WAGNER BLDG AT UNIVERSITY PARK. This hands-on training teaches users to use Office 2007 or 2010 Mail Merge. Doing a Mail Merge may be the easiest way to take your names and addresses from Word, Excel or even Outlook into a merge document in Word and get printed labels or letters. During the class we will show you how to use the Mail Merge Wizard and how to do a manual mail merge. We’ll do a merge to create an envelope, labels and a letter and our data source (document with the names and addresses) will be from Word and Excel. This series will be taught using the Office 2007/10 interface. |
| Office 2010: What's Cool & New |
| Join us as we take a quick look at some new features of Office 2010 (NOT Outlook, that is a separate training). We will investigate cool changes in Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, Excel and Access. You will learn what the Backstage area is and what it means to you as you use these applications, we will take a look at the Photo Editing tool available in Word, PowerPoint and Publisher, and we will discuss what new Paste options are available to you. |
| Office: Creating Mail Merges |
| This hands-on training teaches users to use Office 200/20107 Mail Merge. Doing a Mail Merge may be the easiest way to take your names and addresses from Word, Excel or even Outlook into a merge document in Word and get printed labels or letters. During the class we will show you how to do use the Mail Merge Wizard and how to do a manual mail merge. We’ll do a merge to create an envelope, labels and a letter and our data source (document with the names and addresses) will be from Word and Excel. This series will be taught using the Office 2007/2010 interface. The only prerequisite for the series is general computing knowledge. |
| Online Survey Tool - using Survey Monkey |
| Participants will learn to use an online survey tool called SurveyMonkey to conduct needs assessments and program evaluations and turn those results into meaningful pie or bar charts. As part of this workshop, participants will also learn how to write survey questions that will provide valid data.
This workshop will help participants write survey questions that will provide valid data and we will learn to create a survey in SurveyMonkey. We will take the results from the survey created use Excel to create pie and bar charts. .
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| Outlook 07 Information Management |
| We all have so much information to organize. This class will show you some tips & techniques to deal with all that information. Skills you may learn are: Create Rules to filter emails, Use the Instant Search feature, Understand Flags and Reminders, Use PSU Directory Services and the Global Address List to address your email, and drag emails to your calendar & tasks.
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| Outlook 07 Meeting Management |
| Learn some valuable meeting management skills using Outlook 2007 with Exchange.
Learn how to create a meeting request, how to see a group schedule, how to give permissions for other team members to see your calendar, categories (why & how to use them), resources (inviting mtg rooms), updating a meeting request, and inviting from global lists vs. contacts.
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| Outlook 2010 Information Management |
| We all have so much information to organize. This class will show you some tips & techniques to deal with all that information. Skills you may learn are: Find the size of your Inbox; Use Search Folders to find LARGE emails; Create Rules to filter emails, Use the Instant Search feature, Understand Flags and Reminders, Use PSU Directory Services and the Global Address List to address your email, and drag emails to your calendar & tasks. |
| Outlook 2010 Meeting Management |
| Learn some valuable meeting management skills using Outlook 2010 with Exchange.
Learn how to create a meeting request, how to see a group schedule, how to give permissions for other team members to see your calendar, categories (why & how to use them), resources (inviting mtg rooms), updating a meeting request, and inviting from global lists vs. contacts.
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| Outlook 2010: What's Cool & New |
| Join us as we look at some new features of Outlook 2010. We will be discussing the Ribbon and Backstage area, will give you time to try out features like the conversation view and Quick Steps, and highlight some cool changes when working with meetings. Also in the session you will learn to find what you are looking for using the Outlook enhanced search. |
| Plone for Counties: Working with 4-H Content |
| This is a four session series. Staff may choose to attend only the sessions that apply to their needs.
Each session will include a demonstration, discussion and hands-on practice time. The goal of these sessions is to have county staff create "good" content so that their website can go live soon after the class is complete.
In this session: Working with 4-H Content. . . |
| Plone for Counties: Working with Events |
| This is a four session series. Staff may choose to attend only the sessions that apply to their needs.
Each session will include a demonstration, discussion and hands-on practice time. The goal of these sessions is to have county staff create "good" content so that their website can go live soon after the class is complete.
In this session: Working with Events. . . |
| Plone for Counties: Working with Master Gardener Content |
| This is a four session series. Staff may choose to attend only the sessions that apply to their needs.
Each session will include a demonstration, discussion and hands-on practice time. The goal of these sessions is to have county staff create "good" content so that their website can go live soon after the class is complete.
In this session: Working with Master Gardener Content . . . |
| Plone for Counties: Working with News & Spotlight |
| This is a four session series. Staff may choose to attend only the sessions that apply to their needs.
Each session will include a demonstration, discussion and hands-on practice time. The goal of these sessions is to have county staff create "good" content so that their website can go live soon after the class is complete.
In this session: Working with News & Spotlight. . . |
| PowerPoint 2007 Essentials |
Join us for a new series of "PowerPoint 2007 Essentials" training sessions. During this 4 session series we will cover a range of PowerPoint 2007 topics used to create and enhance your PowerPoint presentations. Each session will last 1.5 to 2 hours and will include demonstration and hands-on practice time. The sessions are designed in a series and participants are encouraged to attend all sessions; however, attendance at all sessions is not required and recordings of previous sessions will be available. This series will be taught using the PowerPoint 2007 interface. Topics for Session 1 include: Topics for Session 2 include: Topics for Session 3 include: Topics for Session 4 include: |
| Publisher 2010 Using Extension Templates |
| The College has created 3 Publisher Templates for you to use to create your marketing materials for flyers, brochures, and newsletters. AgIT's training has 3 sessions built around using these templates. Session 1 will focus on using the flyer template. Session 2 will focus on building a brochure and Session 3 focuses on building a 2-page newsletter.
Some of the skills that will be taught are:
This training will be hands-on and delivered via Adobe Connect. This training will be using Publisher 2010 as the software. If you do not have this installed on your computer and want to use the newest version of Publisher, please enter a Help Desk ticket to request the install BEFORE the training. If you have questions, please email one of the Educational Technologists: Jacki Weikert (mailto:jxs138@psu.edu), Sherry Crum (mailto:slg161@psu.edu); Albert Nakpil (mailto:aln@psu.edu), or Peg Shuffy (mailto:pshuffy@psu.edu) NOTE: Please register individually for each session. |
| Publisher 2010 Using Extension Templates - Session 1 |
| The College has created 3 Publisher Templates for you to use to create your marketing materials for flyers, brochures, and newsletters. AgIT's training has 3 sessions built around using these templates. Session 1 will focus on using the flyer template. Session 2 will focus on building a brochure and Session 3 focuses on building a 2-page newsletter.
Some of the skills that will be taught are:
This training will be hands-on and delivered via Adobe Connect. This training will be using Publisher 2010 as the software. If you do not have this installed on your computer and want to use the newest version of Publisher, please enter a Help Desk ticket to request the install BEFORE the training. If you have questions, please email one of the Educational Technologists: Jacki Weikert (mailto:jxs138@psu.edu), Sherry Crum (mailto:slg161@psu.edu); Albert Nakpil (mailto:aln@psu.edu), or Peg Shuffy (mailto:pshuffy@psu.edu) |
| SharePoint 2007 - Announcement & Link lists |
| An announcements list can be used to post important messages about a project, such as deadlines and changes in deliverables, introductions to new team members, and other information. Links lists can be added to SharePoint sites as a central location for sharing links to web pages or other team resources.
Learn all about adding and editing an announcement and adding a link to a SharePoint site. Also learn how you can receive a notification from SharePoint when Announcements or Links are modified. |
| SharePoint 2007 - Calendar |
| A calendar list can be used for a calendar-based view of a team's upcoming meetings, deadlines, and other important events. One great feature of SharePoint calendars are their ability to be connected to a user's Microsoft Outlook application. By linking the SharePoint calendar to Outlook, users can add or update events on the calendar directly from Outlook. Users can copy appointments from their calendar to the SharePoint calendar or vice versa and can view their calendar side by side or overlaid on the SharePoint calendar. Any changes a user makes to the SharePoint calendar from within Outlook will automatically be synchronized with the calendar on the SharePoint site.
Also learn how you can receive a notification from SharePoint when the Calendar is modified. |
| SharePoint 2007 - Contacts |
| A SharePoint contacts list can help a team maintain contact information for people they may need to reach. The contacts list, as shown below, contains a single view called All Contacts, which by default displays the last name, first name, company, business phone, home phone, and email address of each contact. Like SharePoint calendars, contact lists can be connected to a user's Microsoft Outlook application. By linking the SharePoint contact list to Outlook, users can add or update contacts directly from Outlook. Users can copy contacts from their personal contact list to the SharePoint contact list or vice versa. Any changes a user makes to the SharePoint contact list from within Outlook will automatically be synchronized with the contact list on the SharePoint site.
Also learn how you can receive a notification from SharePoint when Contacts is modified. |
| SharePoint 2007 - Discussion Boards |
| Discussion boards (shown as Team Discussions on Team Sites) are a place for newsgroup-style discussions between team members. They invite team members to discuss issues with one another by adding discussion topics and posting replies. A discussion board shows the most recent discussion topics first, as well as the number of replies for each discussion. That way, users can quickly see which discussion topics have the most recent activity and which ones are the most popular.
Learn all about working with discussion boards in a SharePoint 2007 site. Also learn how you can receive a notification from SharePoint when the Discussion Board is modified. |
| SharePoint 2007 - Document Library |
| A document library is a place where team members can create, collect, update, and manage files. From within a document library attributes of each document (such as file name, file type, last modified date and last modified user) are available.
Learn all there is to know about the Document Library - adding a document, creating a folder, editing the document, deleting and recovering a document. Also learn how you can receive a notification from SharePoint when the Document library or a specific document is modified. |
| SharePoint 2007 - Picture Library |
| A picture library provides a simple way to share and organize digital pictures with a team. Although pictures could be stored in a standard document library, using a picture library allows users to view the pictures in a slide show format and to download pictures directly to a computer. Additionally, there are three different display styles that can be use to view pictures stored in a picture library.
Learn all about the different display styles, how to download a picture, and how to add a picture to the library. Also learn how you can receive a notification from SharePoint when the Picture Library is modified. |
| SharePoint 2007 - Tasks list |
| Tasks Lists in SharePoint can be used to track a group of work items that individuals or a team must complete.
Learn all about working with Tasks in a SharePoint 2007 site. Also learn how you can receive a notification from SharePoint when Tasks is modified. |
| SharePoint 2007: Tips & Tricks |
| As a collaboration tool, SharePoint has a lot to offer our teams. Come hear some tips and tricks that will help you use SharePoint more effectively, including Windows Explorer, email a document directly from SharePoint, setting up Alerts and RSS Feeds. Plus a few more!
You should be comfortable using SharePoint before you attend this session. |
| Twitter Cohort |
| Introducing a College of AgSci Twitter Cohort!
This is a 5 week course to walk you through getting started with Twitter, help you build your community, help you share content, help you find a tool to manage your tweets and followers, and you'll learn from others in the process.
Schedule: 5 sessions, 1 hour each session with Q&A at the end of each session Each session included discussion, demonstration, class participation along with an assignment and participation outside of class. |
| Using SharePoint 2007 |
| Does your team need a space to collaborate on your programs, share Web links, documents, and have team discussions? SharePoint 2007 has all of those capabilities and more. This session will explore how you can use SharePoint as a team member to share and update documents, add and edit announcements, create a SharePoint calendar, then link it to your Outlook Calendar, and much more! |
| Using SurveyMonkey to Summarize County and Statewide Program Data from Paper Surveys |
| Join us for a demonstration of an easy, inexpensive way to summarize county and statewide data from paper surveys using SurveyMonkey. In this demonstration, we will show how to: 1) enter county or statewide data into online web form using SurveyMonkey and 2) almost instantaneously access county and/or statewide summaries, depending on who on the team is interested in a summary. Program team leaders will always have easy access to the most up-to-date data. This webinar will also demonstrate Crosstabs for comparing across counties or instructors and filtering for individual instructor and county summaries. Using SurveyMonkey to summarize data from paper surveys will be useful for your team. This webinar will be advertised from the Director's office and will be delivered via Adobe Connect. Join us at http://breeze.psu.edu/reframing Target Audience: State Program Team Co-Chairs, Evaluation Liaison(s), and any other interested members |
| Windows 7: Find out What's New |
| Especially applicable to Windows XP users who are moving to Windows 7 with their new computers.
Join us for an overview of new features in the Windows 7 Operating System. You will learn about the redesigned desktop, Windows Explorer and new Windows 7 features like libraries and desktop themes. We will discuss using the Preview Panel to get a quick preview of all sorts of file types, managing documents with libraries, and security enhancements. During the session we will also investigate how searching has changed to allow you to find information and files, look at the Sticky Notes gadget, talk about customizing the Taskbar to get it to appear and operate the way you want, and learn to connect to wireless networks and projectors. |
| Word: Building Tables & Charts |
| If you are using Word 2007 or 2010, you probably realize there are many features that you either don't use or use a little but need to know more about. In this session we will discuss how to build and modify tables and charts.
This series will be taught using Windows XP/7 and the Word 2007/2010 interface. The only prerequisite for the series is general computing knowledge. Topics include: 1. Learn to create tables 2. Learn to convert text to tables and tables to text 3. Modify and format tables 4. Learn to create charts 5. Modify chart data and appearance 6. Learn to use captions |
| Word: Formatting Pages |
| If you are using Word 2007 or 2010, you probably realize there are many features that you either don't use or use a little but need to know more about. In this session we will discuss how to format pages.
This series will be taught using Windows XP/7 and the Word 2007/2010 interface. The only prerequisite for the series is general computing knowledge. Topics include: 1. Build a Page Header and Footer 2. Use Page Backgrounds 3. Use Watermarks 4. Use Borders 5. Work with Page and Section Breaks 6. Apply Dot Leaders |
| Word: Working with Graphics |
| If you are using Word 2007 or 2010, you probably realize there are many features that you either don't use or use a little but need to know more about. In this session we will discuss how to work with graphics.
This series will be taught using Windows XP/7 and the Word 2007/2010 interface. The only prerequisite for the series is general computing knowledge. Topics include: 1. Work with Pictures - Insert, Resize and Move Pictures - Adjust Text Wrapping - Compress Pictures - Crop Pictures 2. Insert Clip Art 3. Work with Shapes - Insert, Group and Reorder Shapes - Insert Text Box Shape 4. Insert SmartArt 5. Insert Drop Caps |
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