Learning & Development: Working online, racial understanding, Connect Extension, Big Dig Day and more

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Call for WebANR

Do you have a WebANR Cafe Thursday topic and presenter to recommend for our Third Thursday Cafe' WebANRs? Or do you have a topic that you would like to present? WebANR topics are based on the areas of Extension Delivery, Building Support, and Office & Team Management. Our targeted audience members are ANR advisors, community educators and others. Your feedback will be reviewed by leadership and we will let you know at a future date if added to the WebANR planning process. Please share your recommendations here.

IGIS expands online office hours

Informatics and GIS is expanding its online office hours from 1 hour a week to 4 hours. The IGIS  team offers advice for a range of technical and data analysis topics. They are also introducing consultations on statistical programming language R. For details, see the announcement on their blog.

Extension Response to COVID-19 & Resources for Extension Professionals Working Online

The purpose of this website is to provide a means through which Extension educators and administrators can share with their Cooperative Extension colleagues various resources and guides about teaching and working virtually, and provide a listing of current institutional responses to COVID-19. The current list of resources is just a beginning; it needs your additional contributions and expertise. As indicated by the note just below the search box on the right, you are encouraged to share other resources with us by sending an email to contact-us@extension.org.

Registration or SAVE THE DATES:
Coming Together for Racial Understanding Workshop
This workshop is scheduled to take place TBD in July 2020.
Apply to attend by April 3, 2020.

Here is an opportunity to engage in democratic dialogues that address racism and inequities and learn how to engage your community in those dialogues. This workshop is not meant to be an end to your thoughts and feelings about historical or present-day racism and inequities nor is it meant to be a single experience of addressing internalized, interpersonal, institutional, structural and systematic racism and inequities. Rather, the workshop aims to serve as part of your process in addressing the power of language, our commitment to inclusion, our understanding of past and present policies and practices of inequality and how to begin the work of dismantling racism and inequities within UC ANR and within our communities. The workshop will be capped at 20 people.

Connect Extension:
A Hub For Learning, Professional Development and Collaboration Register here for your free account.

The eXtension Foundation is pleased to announce a new platform for all Cooperative Extension professionals, Connect Extension. Connect Extension provides an interactive social space designed for this specific community of educators and professionals.

All Cooperative Extension professionals can access our national calendar to share webinars and events systemwide and with the public. eXtension members can access their member benefits in Connect Extension made possible through our Impact Collaborative program. Register here for your free account.

eXtension Social Café
Every Thursday from March 26 - April 30
10 a.m.–11 a.m. 

Available to all Cooperative Extension professionals

The eXtension Social Café will provide a weekly opportunity for informal, drop-in conversations and questions about the effective use of social media and communications in Extension work. Each Social Café will open with a 5-15 minute “tutorial” of a tool or feature on commonly used social platforms, or a brief showcase of a Cooperative Extension employee who is using digital communications in innovative and effective ways. The remainder of the time will be devoted to sharing, discussion and Q&A. Hosted by Rose Hayden-Smith, Ph.D., Technology in Extension Education Fellow and UC ANR advisor emeritus. To participate, please create your Connect Extension account. This event is listed on the main calendar.

April 2020 Virtual Impact Collaborative Summit
April 28 - 29
11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: Online
Who can attend? eXtension member institutions
Deadline to register: April 15, 2020 Register Here

As you know, COVID-19 has created challenges across Cooperative Extension and across the nation. As a result of a survey conducted across the system last week, eXtension is currently focused on serving Cooperative Extension in two primary areas in response to COVID-19:

1. Providing resources, professional development, and learning opportunities around working virtually. Using our technology platforms and tools, we've launched a resource site at virtual.eXtension.org available to the entire Land-Grant University system with new content being added every day from all across Cooperative Extension. Additionally, we have launched a new platform, Connect Extension, available to the entire system. Within the platform, eXtension members have exclusive access to professional development, learning opportunities, and opportunities for collaboration.

2. Co-creating solutions for delivering Extension programs virtually.

Our network of key informants from in and out of Cooperative Extension will be ready to help accelerate finding solutions to the challenges of delivering Extension programs virtually.

April ANR Webinars

SiteBuilder 201: Functionality, Navigation, and Basic Web Design
Monday, April 6, 2020
11 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Join Ricky Satomi for an informal webinar on SiteBuilder. He will be using examples from the ANR Forestry web pages. Topics likely to be covered: Page hierarchy, asset management, page Management, calendar sharing, color wheel use, content management, adding a table, permalink set-up website readability Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428 | 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656| Web ID: 751 701 428

Shooting videos with your iPhone
April 8, 2020
11:30 a.m.-noon

Ricardo Vela will lead us in this presentation where we will learn about basic composition, and lighting and best practices on how to use the iPhone as a video recording device. Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428 | 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656| Web ID: 751 701 428

Big Dig Day: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Campaign
April 14, 2020
11 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

#DigDeep and learn how to use the campaign materials to create a successful 24 hour social media fundraising campaign to support your program! Presentation host is Emily Delk. Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428 | 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656| Web ID: 751 701 428

Budget Basics and Calculator
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Noon - 12:30 p.m.

Learn how to develop a proposal budget. Topics covered include: cost components that make up a budget, applicable cost principles, budgeting techniques and practices, calculating F&A costs, and budgeting tools and resources.
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428 | +1 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428

Finding Happiness
April 20, 2020
10:00-10:45 a.m.

Join Surendra Dara in how to find happiness inside and around us. Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428 | 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656| Web ID: 751 701 428

Cost Sharing
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Cost sharing or matching funds is the portion of project expenses provided by UC and not paid by the sponsoring agency. Tune in to learn more about when its acceptable to commit cost share on a proposal, required approvals, and tracking cost share after the award has been made. With Kathy Nolan, ANR Office of Contracts and Grants Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428 | +1 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428

Zoom Training
Find live Zoom training and tutorials

3 Keys to Culture Continuity in the Workplace during COVID-19 TerryBerry

Does it feel like the world is changing every hour? More than ever, we are looking for hope, reassurance and as much stability as possible. 

As we all adjust to this uncertain environment, focusing on communication, community and commitment will help us get through it together, and be stronger on the other side.

Check out Terryberry's blog post to

• Maintain your workplace community
• Demonstrate commitment to your people
• Keep the lines of communication open

Let's all focus on communication, community and commitment to help us get through it together, and be more connected the other side.

Maximize Efficiency and Productivity of Remote Work (LinkedIn Learning)
New to working from home? These courses provide work/life hacks that can help you create a productive remote work environment, optimize your schedule for peak productivity (including meaningful breaks to help you avoid burnout), and show up the way you want to on video conference calls: 

1. Working Remotely – 1 hr
2. Time Management: Working From Home – 1 hr 25 min
3. Productivity Tips: Finding Your Productive Mindset – 59 min
4. Executive Presence on Video Conference Calls –  34 min

 

Everyone can learn something new.

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