UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: February 2005 Archives
February 17, 2005
Some training vendors offer discounts for employees of UNH. For a listing and links to these vendors, please visit our Training Resources Guide, Training Discounts page at: href="http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/unh_disc.htm"> http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/unh_disc.htm
To access the complete Training Resources Guide, please go to: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/indextrg.htm
Many vendors also offer discounts to employees of educational institutions. For more information, or to find out more about some of these vendors, please consult the Training Resources Guide.
February 8, 2005
Element K offers free weekly newsletters with tips in a variety of subjects. (There is a separate newsletter for each subject.) Newsletter topics include: Corel WordPerfect, Windows, Photoshop, PageMaker, and the entire Office suite (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word - one newsletter for each application.)
For a complete listing of their offerings, or to subscribe to one of these weekly newsletters, go to: http://www.elementkjournals.com/tips.asp
February 7, 2005
In addition to training listings for the next 2 months, and links to sources of that training, this update contains information on:
- FREE offerings from Learn2.com
- Revised Training Resources Guide now includes links to employee training discounts, among other new features
- UNHCE offers NEW training sessions on videoconferencing
Read on!
New training offerings on Videoconferencing are available to UNHCE staff
Dave Foote will be offering the following sessions on videoconferencing. They are open to UNHCE staff.
- February 10 - Videoconferencing 101: Conducting a Successful Videoconference Meeting
- March 17 (and April 20 repeat) - Videoconferencing 201: Enhancing Your Videoconference with Tools and Teaching Techniques.
To sign up for these sessions, please access our inservice signup calendar.
The following training opportunities are also available in the next two months.
I. UNH CIS
Sign up early for CIS classes. Not only are the most popular classes oversubscribed early; CIS has begun to cancel classes which are under enrolled two weeks prior to the class date.
Vendor-based Training - CIS has arranged with outside vendors to offer classes on a variety of topics for a nominal fee. The cost is typically $99 for a full day or two half-day sessions, or $198 for 2 days or 4 half-day sessions. That is less than half the cost of the training offered to the public.
Classes in the following topics will be offered in the next two months.
- Access
- Adobe Acrobat
- Dreamweaver (Note: the February 14 th training session has been cancelled. They have scheduled a Dreamweaver training session for April 6.)
- PhotoShop
- PowerPoint
All Microsoft Office applications are taught using Office 2003. Dreamweaver is version MX 2004.
For further information, an outline of each course, or to register, please consult their web site at: http://www.cistrainingcenter.unh.edu/
II. TheState of New Hampshire offers classes “at cost” to all UNH employees. This is at considerable savings from what one would pay with an outside vendor.
The state is offering classes in the following topics during the next 2 months.
- Access*
- Excel
- PowerPoint*
- Word
* Note: In addition to general training in these areas, special topics are also offered using these applications.
Please consult their website for further information on the above listings.
To consult their website, go to:
http://www.nh.gov/hr/docs/ Then scroll down to the section on training and select the term for which you’d like information. (Note – The URL for the specific calendar changes each semester. If you bookmarked their site, you may want to replace it with the new URL listed above. Then follow the directions for scrolling to the appropriate term’s document.)
Note – The state also offers a multitude of courses in other areas such as Effective management, strategic planning, supervisory techniques (certificate program), communication and writing skills, conflict resolution, grant writing, learning styles, and Myers-Briggs, to name a few.
III. College for Lifelong Learning will be offering the following classes during the next two months.
Seacoast Region – In-services in the following topics are being offered in the Seacoast region in the next two months.
- Access (Levels II and III)
- Excel (Levels II and III)
- Word (Levels II and III)
In addition, they offer formal credit courses in computer topics which begin in January.
North Country Region
No current listings.
They offer formal credit courses in computer topics, such as Software tools. This semester began in January, but check out their listings for future semesters.
Merrimack Valley Region
No current listings.
They offer formal credit courses in computer topics, such as Software tools. This semester began in January, but check out their listings for future semesters.
The Connecticut Valley Region offersformal credit courses which began in January. Topics include Software Tools and Introduction to Computers. Check out their listings for future semesters.
For further information on any offerings through CLL or to register, consult their website at: http://www.cll. edu / .
IV. Free on-line tutorials available!
Learn2.com offers free online tutorials in various topics. The offering changes periodically, and is not always a computer topic. To take advantage of their current offering, access their site at: http://www.tutorials.com/fd/tutorials.asp Select the “free Training” option on the left side of the screen.
They also offer an email list which sends out weekly newsletters with FREE timesavers, tips, & tricks, for MS Office and Windows. To enroll, go to: http://www.tutorials.com/cust_supt/email_subscribe.asp
CBT and Training Resources Guide
Training Resource Listings
- Training Resources Guide: The UNHCE Training Resources Guide is undergoing a major revision. Some sections are still in the process of being updated. Several new listings are already available. New sections include online tutorials and discounts available to UNH employees.
This guide contains information on training resources available in applications utilized by employees of UNHCE, including Microsoft Office, Adobe products (Acrobat, PageMaker, PhotoShop), as well as operating systems, and applications used by smaller audiences, such as PictureTel, DreamWeaver, Blue Ribbon YOUTH enrollment, or WordPerfect. To access this guide, go to: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/indextrg.htm
- Computer Based Training (CBT) - Included in the Training Resources Guide is a listing of Extension or University-owned Computer-based Training CD-ROMs (CBT), which can be used for FREE. UNHCE has a library of CBT (Training CD-ROMs) available from the ITDE office. The CDs are free to UNHCE staff, and can be borrowed for up to 2 weeks. CIS also has free CBT available to be used on campus.
This CBT can be used interactively, and allows you to receive information on just the topics where you desire training. For instance, you can select a topic such as “Creating/modifying headers and footers” in Word. It will show you how to do that step-by-step. You can repeat any sections as needed, and skip to other sections.
For further information on our CBT and a listing of the offerings, go to: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/trcdtoc.pdf
- New online tutorial section offered by ITDE
New tutorials are available on our ITDE website. You can view step-by-step demos showing techniques for accomplishing a variety of computer-related processes.
Topics include using various applications as well as general and Windows topics. Each demo is accompanied by documentation, so you can print out directions to do them on your own.
To access this new area, go to: http://cecf1.unh.edu/tutorials/index.cfm
To access the complete, Training Resources Guide, go to: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/indextrg.htm
The ITDE team has been updating computers running Windows XP to Service Pack 2 over the last few months. There are few noticeable changes to the user. However, one change is the way Windows Updates are handled. We have been setting the operating system to download available update, and notify you that they're ready to install. If you get a small balloon message near the system tray asking if you want to install updates, please do so by clicking on the icon.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is designed to enhance the security of your computer. The other noticeable change is to Internet Explorer, which will now block pop-up windows and ask for permission before running or installing new files from the web.
More information about SP2 is available at the Microsoft website.
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