Technology Services

Spaces are available for Cooperative Extension staff and faculty in the following self-paced online WordPress training sessions.   Registration for each session is open for several weeks but please make note of the enrollment closing dates listed below. To register, please use our online training registration system using your CES login.  Please contact the CES helpdesk [...]

Here’s a PDF file that was originally 7MB (7,106KB), and with some quick and dirty (screen capture, not original source material) steps, I was able to produce a PDF that is only 262KB big.  That’s about 4% of the original file size. Optimized pdf

To embed a flickr slide show, copy and past the show URL into a page or post and it will appear as below.

This is a post using the iPad app. I don’t see it using the pre-defined tags from my site. Adding an image is a little clunky as it wants to put HTML code in the post.

Lisa Linfield has announced the summer session for WordPress training. Registration is open for the following WordPress training sessions. These sessions are open to Cooperative Extension employees and support staff, and are offered free of charge. To view course details and to register, please use our online training registration system.  Enrollment is limited. WordPress: Beyond [...]

Are you wondering which technology would enhance your programming and productivity? Who should you contact for more information on supported technologies within UWEX? What are the educational reasons to use social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter? This paper addresses these questions plus the strengths and weaknesses of these tools. This is a “living document” [...]

If you are like most of us, your Inbox is overflowing and maybe you could use a little help finding messages that got lost in the shuffle.

There are many self-help resources for learning how to use SharePoint 2010 in the Cooperative Extension Intranet: Getting started with SharePoint 2010 including login information (requires a CES username/password) Archives of introductory training/demos: Introduction to the CES Intranet Using SharePoint 2010 (1 hr) Introduction to the CES Intranet Workspaces (1hr) Introduction to the CES Intranet [...]

There are many free professional development opportunities for colleagues who are looking to learn about educational technologies, online teaching/pedagogy, social media in education and more.  For example, eXtension regularly offers short webinars about technology tools (some of which we use here in Wisconsin, some not.)  Recently, eXtension hosted a virtual conference online and have made [...]

For UW-Extension, Cooperative Extension colleagues, there is a new tool for online meetings called Blackboard Collaborate.  It’s been built like it’s the conference room down the hall, but is available for colleagues to meet virtually and share visuals (like PowerPoint slides, documents, desktop, etc.)  It is very much like other tools you may have used [...]