National eXtension Initiative

The next series of eXtension Institutional Team (iTeam) meetings will be this week, June 26, 27, & 28, 2006 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1:30 to 3:00 Central Time, 12:30 to 2:00 Mountain Time, and 11:30 to 1:00 Pacific Time).

The meetings will once again be offered via the Breeze System at Iowa State University. Go to: http://http://breeze.extension.iastate.edu/teammeeting/ to join the meeting.

The agenda for the meeting includes:

2:30 – 4 p.m. EASTERN Time

• Milestones (next 3 months)

• FAQ Internal Release
• CoP Web Sites
• CoP: Calls for Engagement (2 of them)
• Professional Development Series

• FAQ – Internal release

• Demo
• Feedback

• eXtension ID – Signing Up

• Demo
• Feedback

• Professional Development Series

• Schedule
• Feedback

• eXtension Virtual News Room

• RFA
• Responsibilities
• Schedule

• Evaluation and Research Position

• ATOM white paper

• Action Steps

• Discussion

eXtension is pleased to provide additional professional development opportunities for Cooperative Extension faculty and staff.

Our next offerings are a couple more “Thirty-Minute Sessions” held on specific topics during the month. Give us 30 minutes and we’ll teach you something useful!

*Basic Wiki Markup on Wednesday, June 14 at 1:00-1:30 p.m. Eastern Time ( 10:00 a.m. Pacific, 11:00 p.m. Mountain, 12:00 noon Central)

*Lists in a Wikis on Tuesday, June 27 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Pacific, 11:00 a.m. Mountain, 12 noon Central)

In addition, we plan to hold an FAQ Orientation for IT Staff, open to members of any interested state’s IT staff, on Wednesday, June 28 at 1:00-2:00 p.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Pacific, 11:00 a.m. Mountain, 12 noon Central). This will be in preparation for the roll out of the FAQ System internally to all extension faculty and staff.

Each of these sessions will be held via Breeze at http://breeze.extension.iastate.edu/learn. You will next be presented with a login screen that has an “Enter as Guest” option. Select that option and click your mouse on the “Click to Enter” button. Enter your first name, your last name, and your institution/university, then click the “Enter” button to join the conference. To hear the audio of the workshop and participate in the Q&A portion of the workshop we will be using a built-in teleconferencing capability of Macromedia’s Breeze conferencing software. Once you login into the meeting you will be presented with the option to enter your call-back phone number. After entering your number you will be automatically called and joined into the audio portion of the Web conference.

Join us!

The next series of eXtension Institutional Team (iTeam) meetings will be June 26, 27, & 28, 2006 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1:30 to 3:00 Central Time, 12:30 to 2:00 Mountain Time, and 11:30 to 1:00 Pacific Time).

The meetings will once again be offered via the Breeze System at Iowa State University. A detailed agenda and the Breeze connection information will be provided at a later date.

Mark your calendars now!