UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: September 2007 Archives

For staff looking for Photoshop training, they may want to consider attending the following conference from CompuMaster:

The New Hampshire Conference for Photoshop Users
One-day multi-session
Conference dates:

• November 28, 2007 - Manchester, NH


• November 29, 2007 - Concord, NH

Do you want to remove headers and footers in Word? Here's a video clip that tells you what to do.

• PhotoShop Tutorials, Tips and Tricks
• 11 Super Awesome Photoshop Movie Effects
• Digital Painting with Light
• The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web
• Photoshop Brushes
• Web 2.0 Design Kit

• Adobe InDesign Tutorials, Tips, Techniques and Resources
• From InDesign to interactive PDF - part 1
• From InDesign to interactive PDF - part 2
• From InDesign to interactive PDF - part 3
• Getting the Most Out of Guides
• InDesign Secrets
• Understanding Frame Grids
• Using Open Type Pro Fonts in InDesign
• Using Your Placeholder Text

• Acrobat in Education - wonderful blog - nothing new over the summer but lots of information in the archives.
• Add functionality to PDF forms with buttons
• Adding security to forms
• Creating slide presentations using InDesign and Acrobat
• It's an image, it's a document: No, it's a fillable form!
• Lori DeFurio Acrobat Blog - lots of great articles.
• Planet PDF - Creative and Print Tips
• Ted Padova's Acrobat User Community Blog
• Think Outside the Page - very cool tutorial
• Text alignment in form fields
• Top 10 PDF Tricks

What you should know before you send your document to your print service provider.

In September, eXtension is offering "30 Minute Sessions" on some new topics such as Second Life, Slideshare, AJAX, and Developing Quality Web Content. These sessions will be held at their Web Conferencing Center at:
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn and your telephone.

eXtension's professional development opportunities are open to all Cooperative Extension faculty, staff and employees. No pre-registration.

Sessions include:
* Sept 11: Introduction to Second Life
* Sept 12: Social Bookmarking
* Sept 20: Using Slideshare for Collaboration and Online Learning
* Sept 26: AJAX: Cleaning up your Web Applications and Reducing User Clicks,
* Sept 27: Developing Quality Web Content

RECORDINGS:
Recordings of many past professional development sessions can be found at the main eXtension wiki at http://about.eXtension.org/wiki and scroll down under Professional Development heading and find "Recordings of eXtension Professional Development Sessions", or search on the word Recording.

For further info, see below.

Each session will be held at 3:00 Eastern Time (2:00p CT, 1:00p MT, 12:00n PT, 11:00a AT; 9:00a HT) unless otherwise noted.

TO PARTICIPATE in any of the 30 Minute sessions...
1. Five minutes before the start time, go to our Web Conferencing Center meeting room at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn.
2. You will be presented with a login screen that has an "Enter as Guest" option.
3. Enter your first name, your last name, and your institution/university, then click the "Enter Room" button to join the conference.
4. To hear the audio of the workshop and participate in the Q&A portion of the workshop they will be using Adobe Connect Pro's built-in teleconferencing capability. Once you log into the meeting you will be presented with the option to enter your call-back number. After entering your number you will be automatically called and joined into the audio portion of the Web conference on your phone.