UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: April 2008 Archives

Recently, an email was sent to users with unh.edu addresses, asking them to provide sensitive information to keep their accounts in good standing: DELETE the email and don't respond. This is a classic phishing scheme.

Phishing is the term for an attempt by "bad guys" to obtain your sensitive information, like usernames, passwords, etc. This is often done through email. For tips to avoid falling victim to such attacks, see this article from US-CERT.

Layers Magazine has lots of great information on Adobe products (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.). Here are some tutorials they offer (free):

• Zoomify Objects in Photoshop CS3
• Transparency Tricks in Adobe InDesign CS3
• Magazine Design with InDesign (includes downloadable support files):
• Part 1 of 3
• Part 2 of 3
• Part 3 of 3
• Quick InDesign Tips with Scott Kelby - video
• InDesign CS3: Give Your Tables Some Style!
• Text Wraps in InDesign
• Photoshop CS3 - 16 Bit Versus 8 Bit Mode - video
• Photoshop Realistic Illustration - video
• Creating Silhouettes in Adobe Illustrator
• Circle of Stars in Adobe Illustrator

Please note that I added some links to Adobe Illustrator as some of our staff is now using the program.

A new blog for Adobe InCopy (professional writing and editing program that tightly integrates with Adobe InDesign) is available. The site InCopy Secrets is a sister site to InDesign Secrets. For more information on InCopy go the the Adobe site.

On Wednesday, April 9, Adobe launched Adobe TV and Adobe Media Player with tons of free video content for designers, photographers, video pros, and developers. Both applications are free.

Adobe is offering free sessions on eLearning design. These sessions are being led by Michael Allen, a respected leader in the ELearning design field.

For further information or to sign up for this series, go to Adobe's event details and registration at:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=472090&loc=en_us

A good article on how to construct questions in eLearning experiences, so that you ascertain if the learner can apply knowledge rather than just spit back what they've heard, is available at Catchy Moore's blog. Click here to read the article.

• Because the calendar is now on the extension.unh.edu server, events should begin appearing in the internal search results, and appear higher in Google search results.
• Users can easily subscribe to or import calendars and events into their own calendar application, such as Google Calendar, Outlook, Windows Live Calendar, Sunbird, iCal, etc.
• Events can have specified locations, which will link to a Google map for that address.
• Events can be tagged with keywords. (Once a sufficient number of events have been tagged, we'll institute a feature to show related events, and eventually other related resources from UNHCE.)

A few years ago, Adobe started to phase out PageMaker and replace it with InDesign. Although InDesign is a powerful tool for creating flyers, newsletters and posters, it is also very complex and has a completely new layout. Here are some training opportunities that may help you:

• Lynda.com - online training library and DVD's for purchase. This is a terrific site with many training opportunities for all Adobe programs. A one month subscription is just $25.
• Total Training - $99 for DVD or $249 for unlimited training for a one year subscription.
• UNH Computer Services InDesign CS3 Level 1 training June 2-3, 2008 from 9-4pm. Cost $198
• APEX Web Media - online training tutorials - $30 per month or $250 per year
• Adobe InDesign Templates
• Adobe InDesign Basics
• InDesign Basic Tutorials