On-line Connect Trainings
Adobe Acrobat Connect (formerly known as Breeze) is a live, on-line meeting room where many CSU Extension trainings are held. Trainers can share their computer screen, video and documents in real time, and participants can interact with the trainer via phone and chat functions. Participants can also be "promoted" to a trainer so they can share their own documents, video and computer screens with everyone else.
These live trainings are usually recorded. Below are links to the collected recordings of the Connect sessions hosted by the CSU Extension Technology Unit. This list will be updated whenever a new training has been held and recorded. Most are between a hour and an hour and a half long.
Recent sessions:
Moving Content to Extension Webpage Template
We demonstrate, step by step, how to move content from an old Extension web site to the new Extension webpage template. We’ll define a new site in Dreamweaver, set up the navigation bars (SSIs), and then move a homepage and 3 second level pages from the old template to the new template.
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p31999810/
Using Publisher 07
Jeff Wood and Joanne Littlefieldwere the presenters. The session focuses on design concepts, CSU graphic guidelines, and demonstrations on how to work with the many Publisher templates available to CSU extension for press releases, reports, brochures and flyers related to 4H, Master Gardener and Extension programs.
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p43314811/
Links to Sessions Archives
On-line Collaborative Tools:
This continuing series explores the emerging tools on what is commonly called "Web 2.0." Sessions explore blogs, podcasts, RSS Feeds, various Google tools, and on-line collaborative editing tools.
Office 07:
This continuing series presents the various components of the Microsoft Office 07 Suite: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
New Extension Webpage Template:
Five lessons taking you through setting up a website using the new Extension webpage template, from adding content and creating secondary pages to creating a directory structure and publishing the site to a web server. No special software, such as Dreamweaver or Front Page, is needed, as all lessons use hand-coded HTML and CSS. The lessons are between 45 and 90 minutes long.
Image Editing Using Photoshop and GIMP:
Photoshop and GIMP - the GNU Image Manipulation Program, a free, open source image editor - are both powerful image editing tools. How to download GIMP, legal issues concerning images, image databases, and image file formats (.gif, .jpg, .png) are discussed. They show how to open, crop, repair , resize, and save an image for the web in both Photoshop and GIMP. We also work with layers, filters, transparency, transform tools, drop shadows and outer glow.
Writing HTML and CSS from the Ground Up:
These sessions explore writing code for HTML, XHTML, and CSS. We buiild a web page from scratch by writing the code in Notepad, avoiding software such as Dreamweaver and Front Page. Topics covered include building boxes, "wrappers," and layouts with CSS, adding images via HTML, adding images via CSS, working with margin, border and padding values, building a link list to use as a navigation panel, linking to external CSS, cross-browser compatibility, linking to external CSS, floating images, floating and clearing columns, working with different link behaviors, manipulating paragraphs and text with <span> tags and classes, using the <blockquote> tag, and building a colored box for visual emphasis.
Specific Web Development Issues:
Various one-time tutorials about Dreamweaver, CSS, Photoshop, and web design.
Connect Training Resources:
Tutorials on using the Connect system for trainings and conferences.
If you are interested in hosting your own Connect training, please contact Ruth Willson at Ruth.Willson@Colostate.Edu. If you are interested in participating in future Connect calls as a participant, please contact Jeff Wood at Jeffrey.Wood@Colostate.Edu.
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