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An hour long webinar recording from Classroom 2.0 Live. The speaker, Steve Hargadon is the creater of Classroom 2.0 a great place for education and technology webinars.

Watch and/or listen to a 1hr and 21 minute webinar on copyright at Classroom. 2.0

eXtension is offering a variety of 30-minute sessions during the month of October. Topics range from using Google and embedding the eXtension widget, to Moodle and Second Life. For a listing, see the eXtension October Professional Development Listings.

What is Online Engagement? - Anne Adrian, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Wednesday, October 7, 2009

While I talk to various groups about the value of social media, I try to help them think about using social media for their own learning, for collaboration, and for engagement.

Almost always in these discussions, participants think of using these tools to broadcast information. "We can use Twitter to publicize a new blog post." These suggestions are great, and absolutely can be used.

But then, I try to move the conversation to how social media brings many other benefits that we have not been able to capture in typical web pages. One power of social media tools is the ability to engage others.

Posted by sjudd at 9:48 AM

Technology then and now:

Here's an excerpt from the PEW Internet study on the social life of health information (June 2009):

Overview

Americans' pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online and offline sources. Whereas someone may have in the past called a health professional, their Mom, or a good friend, they now are also reading blogs, listening to podcasts, updating their social network profile, and posting comments. And many people, once they find health information online, talk with someone about it offline.

This Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation survey finds that technology is not an end, but a means to accelerate the pace of discovery, widen social networks, and sharpen the questions someone might ask when they do get to talk to a health professional. Technology can help to enable the human connection in health care and the internet is turning up the information network's volume.
About the Survey

The findings in this report come from a national phone survey done by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project in partnership with the California HealthCare Foundation. Some 2,253 adults, age 18 and older, were interviewed in December 2008 about the social impact of the internet on health care. The interviews were conducted in English or Spanish and included 502 cell-phone interviews.

Read the full report online or download the PDF.

When using InDesign, you may see the terms "bleed", "slug" and "gutter". If you are wondering what they mean, here is a breakdown:

• Gutter: The width between columns.
• Bleed and Slug: Control how materials print beyond the page boundary.
• Bleed: Allows you to over-ride the edge of the document/paper (color, photo or text). Used mostly for printing presses where the paper may shift and you don't want white space.
• Slug: Area beyond the bleed where printers marks appear (for folding/trimming). The marks are removed during trimming.