aasdfasdf Extension Technology is looking forward to seeing those of you who are attending the Extension Staff Conference next Wednesday, May 16. There are plenty of tech-related breakout sessions to choose from this year. Hopefully something for everyone! Morning 9:45-10:45 a.m. Stay up to speed with ed tech strategies Extension's new website 10:55-11:55 a.m. Creating virtual meetings you want to attend! Academic slide design Afternoon 1:00-1:45 p.m. Quick Bytes technology roundtables 2:00-2:30 p.m. How to wrangle your Qualtrics reports Other sessions to consider: Project management made easy Presenter: Alison Holland, Academic Technologist, Extension IT Location: Azalea Classroom This session will discuss educational technology strategies that are high impact and still quite doable. We’ll talk about how podcasting, email series, Qualtrics learning modules, micro videos, text message “nudges” and more can solve your primary educational cha...
New projects or new committees often means working with a new group of people, sharing documents and sending email messages. If you find yourself entering the same group of email addresses over and over again, you can save yourself some time by creating a personal Google Contact Group. Create it once and use it many times. It will also ensure nobody is accidentally missed when sharing documents or sending emails. Personal contact groups (aka email lists) allow you to use a single name that equates to the email addresses of the people on the list. Instead of entering each person’s email address in the To field of an email message, you can enter the contact group’s name and all the members of that group are added to the email. Create a Personal Contact Group: 1. In Gmail, click the drop-down menu in the top-left side of the page 2. There are two main ways to create a group. You can either select all your contacts first, then create a new group, or you can create the g...