How can a law almost as old as our country work in today's high-tech universities? On April 4, UC ANR Office of Contracts and Grants will sponsor a workshop and webinar to provide academic basic information on copyright law and policies related to teaching and research, and how they affect typical needs of our university community. The workshop, which runs from 9 a.m. to noon, is intended to give academics a better sense of how copyrights work at UC ANR.
Workshop topics:
- What is copyright? How is it different from patents and trademarks?
- Who owns copyrights at UC ANR?
- How does one get a copyright?
- When and how can one use copyright-protected material belonging to someone else?
- If there is no money involved, does it really matter?
- How does the Internet affect copyright?
Presenter Jan Carmikle, Esq., has been a part of UC Davis since 1985 in a variety of roles. She is currently the senior intellectual property officer at UC Davis' InnovationAccess, a unit of the Office of Research with an emphasis on copyrights and material transfer agreements. She is also the UC Davis designated agent for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Three ways to participate:
1. In person at the UC ANR Building in Davis: Click here to RSVP so we can plan for parking, seats and coffee.
2. Online at https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/861986107. Webinar ID: 861 986 107
3. By phone by dialing (408) 638-0968 or (646) 558-8656 (toll call)
For more information about the program, contact Kim Lamar, kdlamar@ucanr.edu or (530) 750-1305. For more information about logistics, contact Sherry Cooper, slcooper@ucanr.edu or (530) 750-1256.
At the 2017 UC People Management Conference, Aug. 1 and 2, participants will hear from inspiring speakers, learn from peers and industry experts and stay current with people management trends.
Conference topics will include
- Human Resources & Management Practices
- Leadership & General Management
- Change Management
- Coaching
- Talent Management
- Employee Relations
- Financial Management
- Labor Relations
- Compensation
To attend the conference, participants must complete of one of the following:
- UC Systemwide People Management Series and Certificate
- Management Development Program
- UC-CORO Systemwide Leadership Collaborative
Registration is $350 and cancellations before June 1, 2017, will be fully refunded. Register at https://pmc.ucop.edu.
UC ANR Learning & Development will sponsor a limited number of eligible supervisors. If you would like to be considered for sponsorship, please complete the survey at https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=20278. To be eligible for sponsorship, UC ANR employees must complete by May 1 (extended from April 1) the UC Systemwide People Management Series and Certificate found at the UC Learning Center - http://lms.ucdavis.edu. Course numbers are at http://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/files/259104.pdf.
On Aug. 1, the conference will open with a networking reception.
The conference will be held at UCLA Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. A limited number of guestrooms are reserved at the Luskin Conference Center for a group rate of $239 per night. A promocode for the group rate will be included in the registration confirmation email.
Seeking to sharpen your skills to advance your career? You now have 24/7 access to on-demand training. UC ANR has upgraded its relationship with Lynda.com, which offers more than 6,000 video courses taught by professional instructors.
Lynda.com now provides ANR users a personalized learning dashboard and allows creation of personal training playlists. With a valid ucanr.edu email address, you now have a free subscription to Lynda.com, an online library that teaches the latest software tools, business skills and leadership development through high-quality instructional videos. To learn more, we suggest that you watch this introductory video about the service, and watch the course "How to use Lynda.com."
To access:
- Login with your ANR portal account https://ucanr.edu/portal/
- Click on the "Lynda.com Learning" link under "My Links" on the left
- From this page, you can either setup your Lynda.com account or go to the Lynda.com login page https://www.lynda.com to login to your account.
Only ANR users with an "@ucanr.edu" email account can sign up for a Lynda.com account.
Benefits to using Lynda.com include:
- Unlimited access to courses on a wide variety of technology and disciplines
- Up-to-date content to keep skills current and to learn new skills
- New courses added every week
- Access to instructors' exercise files to follow along as you learn
- Closed captioning and searchable, timecoded transcripts
- Beginner- to advanced-level courses
- The option to watch complete courses or individual videos as you need them
- Earn certificates to post to your LinkedIn profile
- Download courses to use offline
Join us for our first “Learn it with Lynda.com” lunch and learn on Wednesday, March 15, from noon to 1 pm. Fill out this survey to RSVP.
For more information, contact Jodi Azulai at (530) 750-1239 or jlazulai@ucanr.edu.
Starting on Feb. 8, IT began hosting online Zoom trainings at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays.
“We have provided training sessions as part of the initial Zoom deployment,” said Tolgay Kizilelma,
chief information security officer. “These training sessions helped us make the transition for most of our staff from other video conferencing tools we have been using. However, we are still not there yet. So, to expedite this overall transition and enable our staff to utilize all the features and functions of Zoom better, we have scheduled ongoing weekly Zoom training sessions, which also include Q&A to address specific issues you might be experiencing.”
IT is also planning to do onsite in-person trainings for larger locations.
Information about Zoom including the weekly training schedules can be found at http://ucanr.edu/sites/zoom/Training.
Please email help@ucanr.edu if you have any questions about Zoom or the training sessions.
- Author: Jodi Azulai
UC ANR's new strategic plan emphasizes expanding career and leadership development for our members in one of its goals. Strategies for achieving the goal include training staff and academics in people management, preparing future leaders and developing cultural competencies. To foster your own professional development, you can talk with your supervisor and peruse the career development tools at ANR Learning and Development.
“Onboarding New ANR Employees: Supervisor's Guide” just published
Congratulations to supervisors who have recently hired a new employee. Before you go searching for your old checklist and other HR resources to make sense of the orientation process, check our new guide.
ANR Learning & Development just published “Onboarding New ANR Employees: Supervisor's Guide” to help supervisors onboard new staff and academic employees.
In addition, and currently underway, is a guide for new ANR employees. ANR L&D will also develop an onboarding buddy guide for employees to help new colleagues.
If you have any additional information or comments, please contact me, Jodi Azulai, at jlazulai@ucanr.edu.
What happened to Lynda?
If you try to log in to Lynda.com from your ANR Portal, you will see that we are taking a break to upgrade our subscription.
The new subscription to Lynda.com will give each ANR employee a personalized dashboard, transcripts for completed courses, and certificates of completion that can be added to your LinkedIn profile. When you take a break from a session, it will show you where you left off.
By mid-February we should be fully integrated. We will send out announcements on how to sign in and access a new Lynda.com experience.
Upcoming employee learning events
Below is a list of some upcoming training events that ANR Learning and Development is sponsoring.
Crucial Conversations®
Crucial Conversations® training is aimed at providing skills and confidence to improve your performance at work, strengthen a strained relationship, speak up and advocate for yourself and your ideas, engage in productive dialogue, and more.
Dates: Feb. 1-2, 2017, Davis, and April 26-27, 2017, South Coast REC in Irvine
Contact: Jan Corlett
Sustainable Communities: Online course explores community systems (eXtension)
As communities struggle with increasingly complex social, economic and environmental issues related to sustainability they need the expertise of community development professionals now more than ever. Whether your expertise is in agriculture, natural resources, youth, family or economic development you will be asked to help guide a stakeholder group through a difficult decision making process. The Foundations of Practice course, Sustainable Communities, offers you the tools, skills and knowledge to be the trusted resource community groups need in the emerging dialogs around local foods, energy and natural resources. For more information read here.
Contact: Mary Peabody, Mary.Peabody@uvm.edu or 802-656-7232. (Individuals requesting a disability-related accommodation to participate in this program should contact Mary Peabody by Jan. 27, 2017.)
Webinar: Beyond Surveys
Program evaluation is critical to help develop and improve programs, share program outcomes and generate funding for further programming. However, evaluation is commonly in the form of long, tedious surveys that can lead to inaccurate data. The purpose of this webinar is to share ideas with and among participants of engaging ways to collect program delivery (formative) and outcome (summative) data from youth. (Kendra Lewis, Academic Coordinator California 4-H)
Date: Feb. 2, 2017
Time: 10-11 am
Zoom: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/598226612
Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US toll)
Meeting ID: 598 226 612
Contact: Gemma Miner
Informatics and GIS Training
Agricultural Remote Sensing with Drones
Date: Wednesday Feb. 8, 2017
Time: TBD
Location: Desert Research and Extension Center
Image Processing and GIS for Agricultural Mapping
Date: Thursday Feb. 9, 2017
Time: TBD
Location: Desert Research and Extension Center
Drone Technology and Regulations for Agriculture and Natural Resources
Date: Tuesday Feb. 21, 2017
Time: 1-4:30 pm
Location: Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
For more IGIS training events, check out the IGIS website.
Programmatic Orientation (register here)
Who should attend? All early career UC Cooperative Extension advisors and specialists, academic coordinators, academic administrators, and Agricultural Experiment Station faculty.
Join ANR leadership to discuss the mission of UC ANR and our varied roles in California and the University, as well as see examples of successful research and outreach programs.
The program will begin at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 22, and end at noon on Friday, Feb. 24. Take this opportunity to engage in discussions with colleagues about the resources and opportunities available through ANR as a division.
Contact: ANR Program Support (530) 750-1256.
Webinar: Culturally Relevant Programming (Karina Diaz Rios, UC ANR Specialist)
This session will explore concepts to consider when communicating with culturally diverse audiences, and strategies to develop cultural competency.
Date: March 2, 2017
Time: 10-11 am
Zoom: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/598226612
Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 598 226 612
Contact: Gemma Miner
Water Strategic Initiative & Sustainable Food Systems Strategic Conference
The conference will provide an opportunity for colleagues to learn about the projects, programs and research efforts related to water that are happening throughout the division. Presentations and discussions will include:
- Climate Change
- Salinity: What are Remediation Steps?
- Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)
- SGMA Town Hall Discussion: The State of Your Water Resources
- Water Conservation Goals Across the State
Date: March 14-17, 2017
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Ontario Airport
More information: http://ucanr.edu/sites/SIconferences/2017_Water_Strategic_Initiative_Conference_
Essential Facilitation®
The skills and techniques offered in Essential Facilitation® are designed to produce significant performance improvement, career development and personal growth. Essential Facilitation® shows how to effectively facilitate in situations that have one or more of the following "three Cs":
- Complex or high-stakes content.
- Conflict — the situation is emotionally-charged or controversial.
- Context — when you must balance multiple stakeholders' needs and points of view
Date: March 28-30, 2017, Davis
Contact: Jodi Azulai
Statewide Manager Workshop
Training objectives include providing updates of UCCE financial services, account management, and timekeeping/payroll processes between UCCE county offices and the Business Operations Center. These include purchasing, travel, entertainment, gift acceptance, cash collections, timekeeping, payroll changes, and account management updates. This two-day session will also serve as an orientation opportunity for new UCCE office managers to network with other office managers and meet BOC staff. (Cherie McDougald, Emily Larue)
Date: March 7-8, 2017, Davis
Contact: Emily Larue
Management Skills Assessment Program (MSAP)
The Management Skills Assessment Program is designed to strengthen the engagement and preparation of high potential UC supervisors, managers, and professionals. It offers an intensive, off-site, assessment center experience for early career managers.
Date: April 17-20, 2017, at the UCLA Conference Center in Lake Arrowhead
Contact: Jodi Azulai
UC Cybersecurity
As part of the university's ongoing efforts to secure our information systems and data, the UC Office of the President maintains a mandatory security awareness training program for all UC employees. All UC faculty, staff and student employees are required to complete the standard online UC Cybersecurity Awareness Training when they begin their jobs, as well as complete a shorter, refresher course during each subsequent year. The refresher training has been updated for 2017 and is accessible through the UC Learning Center (http://lms.ucdavis.edu).
ANR Learning and Development
To position ANR as the premiere source of knowledge and science for agricultural and natural resources issues, it is vital that our people keep their knowledge and skills at peak performance. The ANR Learning and Development website offers an array of opportunities for employee learning and professional development that can help serve that goal. I strongly encourage employees to take full advantage of these resources as well as other opportunities to enhance their personal and professional growth. –Glenda Humiston, Vice President
