Tuesday Morning NotesOctober 19, 1999
* Join us in welcoming Martin Guerena, who has formally accepted the La Paz County Assistant Agent, ANR/4-H Youth Development position, effective November 15, 1999. Martin earned his Master of Science degree in Agriculture from California Polytechnic State University in 1990. Welcome Aboard! * A Candidate for Assistant/Associate Specialist in Geospatial Information Technology, Melinda Laituri, will present a seminar "Access & Applications Using Geographic Information Science" on Monday, October 25, 1999 in Forbes 229, 1:15 - 2:15 P.M. * This past weekend, John Begeman and the Pima County Master Gardeners presented an educational program including container gardening to over 500 attendees of the Southern Arizona Home Builder's Association Fall Show in the Tucson Convention Center. This is the second year for this group but because of the popularity of their presentation last year, they were asked to do their presentation five times each of the three days on the main arena stage. This offered good visibility for Cooperative Extension in Southern Arizona. Congratulations, John. * Around mid September, each college department head and county director received at least one set of two CDs with computer training lessons. These disks provide an alternative to using a web site, and we in ECAT felt it would be useful particularly to people off-campus or wanting to take "computer classes" from a home machine. Please be sure to share these disks with faculty and staff in your unit. Lessons can be installed from the disk or used on the disk. We are allowing college units to purchase additional copies of these disks for $10 each, but we need to receive orders by the end of October. See http://cals.arizona.edu/ecat/news/uacbt-project.html for more details, or contact Rob Luebke at 621-3633 with questions. * Just a reminder that the deadline for the Distributed Learning
grant is Nov.1, 1999 to Dr. Jim Knight, Ag Education. These grants
are intended to help faculty and academic professionals incorporate technology
into their teaching efforts and make information available "anytime, anywhere".
This is a great opportunity to partner with other counties or departments
to get funding for equipment, like a digital camera or scanner, software,
or temporary wages to launch an education web site, produce an instructional
video, burn an educational CD, or similar new project that has been held
up because of funding. This is a good chance to try something new
that you've wanted to try in technology and learning. The RFP is
only a few pages, not a long, drawn out form like with many grants.
The RFP and additional information can be found at:
Reminder:
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