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chandelier
as it sits on the north basement steps after its
semi-annual
maintenance on Jan. 2. Nebraska Union Director
Daryl Swanson
said the fixture is lowered twice a year for
cleaning and to
replace the light bulbs. Photo by Richard Wright. |
Johanns' directive
means 4 extra hours of time off in 2003
UNL employees who
earn holiday leave will gain four hours
of time off in 2003 because
of a governor's directive in 2002.
Gov. Mike Johanns
announced just before the UNL holiday closedown
that all Nebraska
state government agencies would close the afternoon
of Christmas
Eve day, Dec. 24, in conjunction with President
Bush's federal
government closing order.
To implement this at UNL, four
hours of time off for Dec.
24 will be considered administrative
leave instead of floating
holiday time, as originally planned.
Those four hours of floating
holiday time were moved to Dec. 31.
This means that employees
will carry over four hours of vacation
into 2003 that would have
been used on Dec. 31.
Employees who would lose vacation hours if they did not use
them
on Dec. 31 will use vacation hours for that day and carry
over the
four floating holiday hours into 2003. These carryover
hours should
be used first when an employee requests vacation
time in 2003.
Because the floating holiday, holiday and vacation time was
posted before receiving the directive from Gov. Johanns, employee
records should be updated now.
For more information about
these changes, call the Payroll
Office at 472-2010.
Campus Bus
Schedule Information Bad Weather Update
If UNL closes
early because of bad weather this winter, the
campus bus service
will stop operating one and one-half hours
after closing. For more
information, call Parking & Transit
Services, 472-1800.
E-news process for e-mail to all
E-News is a weekly compilation of notices distributed to all
faculty and staff and replaces the "e-mail to all"
system. The deadline for submission is 5 p.m. Monday; E-News
is
distributed Tuesday evenings. Submitted items must be sponsored
by
a UNL department, program or organization. No commercial or
personal announcements are allowed. Announcements must have news
rather than opinion content. Submit items to: <http://www.unl.edu/e-news>.
To view a sample e-news, see: <http://www.unl.edu/e-news/sa
mple.html>.
Personal
Vehicle Mileage Rate Decrease
The State of Nebraska has
decreased the personal vehicle mileage
reimbursement rate to 36
cents per mile, effective Jan. 1. This
is consistent with the
standard mileage rate established by the
Internal Revenue Service.
Any employee expense claims for personal
vehicle travel that takes
place on or after Jan. 1 should be
submitted with the new rate.
Claims for mileage expense incurred
before Jan. 1 should use the
previous rate of 36.5 cents per
mile. Call Jim Treat in accounting
at 472-2881 with questions.
Construction just under way for
residence hall
Workers remove rubble from the
parking lot at the southwest
corner of 17th and Vine streets on
Jan. 2 to prepare for the
construction of the new residence hall
there, said project manager
Chad Lea. The building, which will
house two- and four-bedroom
suites instead of two-person rooms, is
set to open in August
2004.
4-H camps accepting job applications
The three 4-H
camps in Alma, Gretna and Halsey will hire 24
summer program
leaders.
Those hired will lead outdoor programs at the
camps and will
participate in many outdoor activities such as
canoeing, swimming,
climbing, ropes course, arts, biking,
environment education and
more. Those hired will spend mid-May to
mid-August teaching children
ages 8-18 at camps. The job includes
salary, room, board and
laundry facilities. Internships may be
arranged for those hired
to gain college credit for the
experience.
Applications are due Jan. 15; any received
after that date
will be accepted until all positions are filled.
Applicants must
be 18, and college experience is preferred.
More information and applications are available on the Nebraska
4-H Web Site at <http://4h.unl.edu>.
Information is
also available at county extension office or by
contacting Bernie
Lorkovic, 4-H natural resources education coordinator,
at 472-6717
or <blorkovic1@unl.edu>.
Nominations Due
Feb. 7 for Chancellor's GLBT Award
Help identify
individuals and/or groups affiliated with the
university who stand
out for their supportive contributions to
gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender concerns. The chancellor
and the Committee on GLBT
Concerns wish to formally recognize
outstanding efforts to create
an inclusive, respectful and safe
climate for members of the gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender
community at UNL.
These efforts may be by an individual, an organization or
department within the institution. The award recipient must demonstrate
a sustained and tangible impact on the campus community. The
deadline for nominations for this award is Feb. 7. Copies of
the
nomination form may be found at the chancellor's office,
201
Canfield; the Women's Center, 340 Nebraska Union; the GLBT
resource
center, 200 Nebraska Union; or at <http://www.unl.edu/lambda>.
For more information contact the award committee co-chairs,
Robert Brown at 486-1579 or <rb61201@alltel.net>,
or Joy
Ritchie, 472-1848, <jritchie1@unl.edu>.
Garden Friends meeting Jan. 19
The annual meeting of Friends of the UNL Gardens begins at
2:30
p.m. Jan. 19 in the Nebraska Union. The meeting, which is
free and
open to the public, will feature a presentation and
slide show by
Mary Ellen Connelly, avid gardener and owner of
Perennial Passions
in Sioux Falls, S.D. Her topic is hardy shrub
roses, but she will
also speak about other plants that thrive
in the upper Great
Plains. New officers and board members for
the group will be
introduced, and information about the 2003
Spring Affair plant
sale, scheduled for April 26 at State Fair
Park's Lancaster
Building, will be available. Friends of the
UNL Gardens is a
nonprofit group that advocates for and raises
funds in support of
the UNL Botanical Gardens and Arboretum.
Layman Awards Request for Proposals
announced
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
announces the
Request for Proposals for Layman Awards. Layman
Awards are aimed
at providing seed money for projects that will
enhance faculty
members' ability to obtain external funding or
produce prominent
scholarly work. Layman Trust Funds of $320,000
will be available
for awards for the summer of 2003 and the
2003-2004 academic
year. The maximum award per faculty member is
$10,000. Deadline
is Jan. 22.
For more information
visit: <http://www.unl.edu/re
search/Layman02_03.html>.
Alumni Summit is Jan. 10
The presidents of the alumni associations from the four NU
campuses will hold the first joint summit about the university's
future. Representatives of the Lincoln, Kearney, Omaha and Medical
Center campuses will discuss the state's fiscal situation and
its
implications at NU.
The summit is Jan. 10 at the Wick
Alumni Center, 1520 R St.
The group will meet in closed session
most of the day. At 3 p.m.,
the group will open the session and
offer a media briefing in
which the results of the discussion will
be presented.
Information: Call 472-4229.
Behlen Observatory to offer 4 public
nights
During the spring semester, UNL's Behlen
Observatory will
be open to the public on four Friday evenings from
7-10 p.m.
The observatory southeast of Mead will be open Jan. 10,
Feb.
7, March 7 and April 4.
The moon, the planets
Jupiter and Saturn, and the Orion nebula
will be visible in the
evening sky on each of these dates, and
one or more of the objects
will be viewed through the 30-inch
telescope, depending on the
number of people who attend and the
time of night.
During each public night, a member of the observatory staff
will
give a slide talk describing the objects that may be viewed.
At the
March 7 public night, additional talks on topics relating
to
astronomy and science demonstrations will be offered.
Edward Schmidt, observatory director, said special visits
to the
observatory can be arranged for groups of 10 to 30 people
on other
nights. Schmidt said interested groups can call him
at 472-7304 or
email <eschmidt1@unl.edu>.
Behlen Observatory is at the University of Nebraska Agricultural
Research and Development Center a few miles southeast of Mead,
and
about 35 miles from either Omaha or Lincoln.
Planetarium show seeks 'new worlds'
"In Search of New Worlds," the new astronomy show
at
UNL's Ralph Mueller Planetarium, will be presented at 2 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays through March.
The program begins
with the discoveries of Uranus and Pluto,
the two outermost planets
in the solar system. It tells how those
events changed our
understanding of the size and content of our
solar system.
Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for children and UNL students
and may be bought the day of the show at the front desk of the
University of Nebraska State Museum at Morrill Hall.
For
information, call the planetarium office at 472-2641 or
visit
<http://www.spacelaser.com>.
Study compares rural state to economic
peers
A study by the UNL Bureau of Business Research
recently examined
both successful and struggling economic peers of
nine rural county
groups in Nebraska.
William
Scheideler, a research analyst for the bureau who
analyzed the
study in the January issue of Business in Nebraska,
said the study
was performed to explore how comparable rural
counties (those with
fewer than 20,000 urban residents) in selected
Midwestern states
achieved economic success in the 1990s. The
county groups were
composed of rural counties that shared industry
structure and
demographic traits in 1990 and had similar location
characters. The
peer counties included some rural counties in
Arkansas, Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma,
South Dakota and
Wisconsin.
A case-study approach was used to examine and
identify the
fundamental factors of each economic peer's success or
struggle
in the 1990s. Successful counties in each peer group were
defined
as those in the top quartile in both total employment and
private
earnings in the decade. Struggling counties fell in the
bottom
quartile on both indicators.
Scheideler said
the study identified six key factors in the
success of rural
Nebraska's economic peers:
- radical shifts in
the production mix of agricultural commodities
in farm-dependent
counties and timely increases in market prices;
- location
advantages, including proximity to fast-growing
metro counties;
- growth of large manufacturing operations;
- two special
developments - a Native American casino and a
private prison;
- favorable state policies on taxes and labor unions;
- broadband telecommunications access may have played a role
in
attracting large manufacturers.
While other factors
were also important, Scheideler said the
study showed that a
"vibrant and growing manufacturing sector,"
generally in
durable goods, was an important part of the success
of many of
Nebraska's rural economic peers.
"Unfortunately,"
he concluded, "none of the
successful economic peers provided
a truly transferable strategy
that could be used by Nebraska's
rural counties.
"There is no easy formula to economic
development success
over the long term. Many of the rural peers in
this study owe
their success in the 1990s to a single economic
event or factor
- for example, the success of one local
manufacturer or timely
price increases for an important
agricultural commodity. Some
will look at these results and
conclude that all it takes is
to recruit one manufacturing plant to
the community and the area's
economic struggles are over. However,
all it would take is for
that one firm to relocate or the
development to fail and a community
likely would join the group of
struggling peers."
That danger, he said, emphasizes
the need for communities
to build broad economic bases.
Business in Nebraska is the 10-times-yearly newsletter of
the
Bureau of Business Research in the UNL College of Business
Administration.
January
Schedule for TIAA-CREF Sessions
A TIAA-CREF consultant
will be in the Nebraska Union on Jan.
15, 17, 30 and 31 and at the
Nebraska East Union on Jan. 16 and
29 to provide free one-on-one
counseling sessions regarding investment-planning
issues.
To sign up, call (800) 842-2009 or visit <http://www.tiaa-cref.org>
and choose "Meetings/Counseling."
Forest Products Workshop Feb. 22
The School of Natural Resource Sciences and Nebraska Forest
Service are sponsoring a workshop on Feb. 22. The workshop,
"Specialty
Forest Products: Increasing Profits and Wildlife on
the Small
Farm and Acreage," will be in the Nebraska East
Union. Registration
is from 9-9:30 a.m. and the program will end at
3:30 p.m.
Call 472-9869 for more information.
Noted Israeli Philosopher and Political
Commentator to Deliver
First Kripke Lectures
Avishi
Margalit, the Shulman Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew
University
in Jerusalem, will give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Feb.
2 at the
Christlieb Gallery of the Great Plains Center, 1155
Q St. in
Lincoln, and at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Jewish Community
Center of
Omaha, 333 S. 132nd St., Omaha.
Margalit is the author of
several books and is a frequent
contributor to the New York Review
of Books, writing on philosophical
subjects and Israeli politics.
His lectures are sponsored by
the Norman and Bernice Harris Center
for Judaic Studies at UNL
and are funded by a gift from Rabbi Myer
Kripke of Omaha.
In Margalit's first lecture,
"Occidentalism: The Mind
of the West," he will explore
the idea that in the eyes
of the "Occidentalists," those
in the East that hate
the West, the "mind of the West" is
a machine-like
mind devoid of soul and spirituality. In the second
lecture,
"Religious Occidentalism," Margalit will explore
radical
Islam as an "Occidentalist" ideology, which sees
the
West as promoting a form of idolatry.
Also part
of Margalit's visit to Nebraska, an award-winning
Israeli film,
Time of Favor, will be shown at 7 p.m. Feb. 4 at
the new Mary
Riepma Ross Media Arts Center at 313 N. 13th St.
The film was
Israel's entry for best foreign language Oscar and
the winner of
six Israeli Academy Awards, including best picture,
best
screenplay, best actor and best actress. After the screening,
Margalit will answer questions from the audience.
Nominations for management Award sought
The University Association for Administrative Development
is
seeking nominations for its 2003 Carl A. Donaldson Award for
Excellence in Management. This award is given to employees who
exemplify superior organizational skills, promote teamwork, communicate
effectively, pursue professional growth and support subordinates'
growth in professional development. Nominations are due Jan.
17.
Awards will be given Feb. 19.
The recipient of this award
receives praise from peers, a
plaque and a $1,000 stipend.
Any non-faculty permanent employee who has been at UNL for
five
years or more with 50 percent or greater FTE and holds management
responsibilities is eligible for nomination. Members of the UAAD
awards committee, the chancellor's cabinet and past recipients
are
ineligible.
For more information, visit <http://uaad.unl.edu/comm
ittees/awards.htm>.To
access the application directly, visit
<http://uaad.unl.e
du/committees/donaldsonform.pdf>.
Contact Russell
Bartholow with any questions at 472-7806 or
<rbartholow2@unl.edu>.
Construction Remodeling Projects for
Summer 2003
Anyone planning a construction or remodeling
project that
they would like done during the summer of 2003 for
completion
by fall 2003 should call Terry Haubold at 472-4817 by
Jan. 15.
He will provide those who contact him with a cost estimate
as
soon as possible in March. Haubold will need to know the design
and bidding costs by March 28 to complete projects by fall.
For more information: <http://busfin.unl.edu/fmp
/fpcpolicy.html>.
UNL
Emeriti Association Meets Jan. 16
The UNL Emeriti
Association will meet at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 16
in the Nebraska East
Union. Ron Withem, former legislator and
now director of
governmental affairs for the University of Nebraska
system, will
discuss "UNL Legislative Matters."
Note to Omaha Airport
Travelers
UNL Travel Services has a negotiated rate of
$2.39 per day
with Park-N-Go at Eppley Airfield in Omaha. Coupons
are included
with all Omaha departure tickets. For more
information, call
UNL Travel Services at 486-4111.
Training For Shipping of Dangerous
Goods
Environmental Health and Safety will offer an IATA
6.2/9 training
session from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 15 in the EHS
training room
at 3630 East Campus Loop.
UNL employees
who ship dangerous goods, including dry ice,
must be trained every
two years. To register, call 472-4925 or
e-mail <ehs@unl.edu>.
Notify Parking of New License Numbers
All employees with UNL parking permits who drive vehicles
licensed in Nebraska will need to notify the Parking and Transit
Services Office of their new license-plate numbers. The office
needs to update its records. E-mail your new license numbers
to
<park@cwis.unl.edu>
or
call 472-1800.
Degree
Application Deadline Jan. 31
Jan. 31 is the deadline to
apply for a degree to be received
on May 10. A $25 non-refundable
degree application fee must accompany
the Application For Degree
form. The fee applies only to the
term indicated on the application
and is not transferable to
another term. Applications are to be
filed at the Graduation
Services Office, 109 Canfield
Administration Building.
UAAD Seeking Nominations for Oldt Award
University
Association for Administrative Development is seeking
nominations
of UNL employees for the 2003 Floyd S. Oldt Award.
The award honors
employees in managerial/professional positions
who display
exceptional service and dedication to UNL and are
creative,
innovative and active in the university community.
Nominations are
due Jan. 17. Awards will be given Feb. 19.
The recipient of
this award receives praise from peers, a
plaque and a $1,000
stipend.
Any non-faculty permanent employee who has been at
UNL for
five years or more with 50 percent or greater FTE and holds
management
responsibilities is eligible for nomination. Members of
the UAAD
awards committee, the chancellor's cabinet and past
recipients
are ineligible.
For more information,
visit <http://uaad.unl.edu/comm
ittees/awards.htm>.
To access the application directly,
visit <http://uaad.unl.edu/co
mmittees/oldtform.pdf>.
Contact Russell Bartholow with any
questions at 472-7806 or <rbartholow2@unl.edu>.
Nominations needed for two awards
Nominations are now being accepted for two awards that honor
UNL
employees and faculty.
The Chancellor's Award for Exemplary
Service to Students acknowledges
extraordinary and sustained
performance by individuals serving
UNL's students. All UNL
employees are eligible.
The Student Foundation/Builders
Award for Outstanding Academic
Advising acknowledges faculty
advisers or advising center staff
members who have demonstrated
outstanding advising ability and
who have made a considerable
contribution to the educational
enrichment of UNL students. This
award is funded by the UNL Student
Foundation and the All
University Fund.
Any UNL student, faculty member, staff
member or administrator
may nominate eligible individuals for these
awards.
The deadline for nominations for both awards is
Jan. 24. Nomination
forms may be picked up at the Office of the
Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs, 106 Canfield Administration
Building; the ASUN
office, 136 Nebraska Union; or either of the
Student Involvement
Offices, 200 Nebraska Union or 300 Nebraska
East Union.
Data Entry
Office Contact Changes
The UNL Data Entry Office main
phone line has been removed
because of budget cuts. For City Campus
data entry questions,
contact the appropriate specialist directly;
e-mail is preferred.
- Corrections, inquiries,
PAF questions: <DataLink@unl.edu>.
- Salaried graduate students, salaried undergrad student workers
and salaried managerial/professionals: Terri Butler, staff assistant,
<tmbutler@unlnotes.unl.edu>
,
472-1121.
- Hourly employees including
office/service, hourly managerial/professional
and hourly student
workers: Carol Neal, staff assistant, <cneal@unlnotes.unl.edu>,
472-0078.
- Faculty, administrators and retirees: Katherine
Gulland,
staff assistant, <kgulland@unlnotes.unl.edu>
,
472-0071.
- Database reporting, miscellaneous
questions: Margaret Koczan,
assistant director, <mkoczan@unlnotes.unl.edu>,
472-0076.
- Policies, SAP-HR training: Pat Amedeo, director,
<pamedeo@unlnotes.unl.edu>,
472-0255.
Online
course to teach about options of long-term care
A
University of Nebraska online course hopes to help families
make
better informed long-term care decisions for their older
family
members.
"Long-term Care: Options, Costs and
Preparation"
will run Jan. 31 through March 14. Course
participants will learn
what long-term care options are available
and will receive knowledge
necessary to make those decisions, said
Mary Ellen Rider, NU
consumer health policy specialist.
Participants may work on the course at their own pace and
will
learn about terminology, financial issues, potential items
for
family decisions and references for further exploration of
long-term care, she said.
Rider and Marlene Stum from the
University of Minnesota will
teach the online course.
Participants will need a computer with a browser such as Internet
Explorer or Netscape Communicator, Web access and an e-mail address.
To enroll for the long-term care course, send name, address,
phone number, e-mail address and a $10 check payable to the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln to Extension Secretary, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln,
P.O. Box 830801, Lincoln, Neb. 68583-0801.
For more information, e-mail Nancy Swarts at <nswarts2@unl.edu>
or call
472-8209.
The course is provided by NU's Cooperative
Extension Health
Care in Transition Action Team.
Research: No proof initiative affects feedlot
size
IANR News and Publishing
Initiative
300, the 20-year-old Nebraska constitutional amendment
restricting
corporate farming, has had no apparent effect on
the structure of
the state's cattle feeding industry, University
of Nebraska
research shows.
Initiative 300, added to Nebraska's
constitution by voters
in 1982, restricts corporate farming and
ranching to family farm
corporations. It was seen by supporters as
a way to blunt the
impact of outside investors on Nebraska's family
farmers.
A study by researchers at NU and Iowa State
University found
that in at least one respect Initiative 300 has
had little impact:
There is no statistical difference between how
the size of feedlots
has evolved in Nebraska and how they've
evolved in other major
cattle-feeding states that have no
restrictions on corporate
investment in cattle feeding. All four
states studied have seen
a trend of larger feedlots supplanting
small-scale operations.
The raw data reveals that, in 1980,
two years before Initiative
300 was adopted, 97 percent of
Nebraska's feedlots had capacity
of fewer than 1,000 head,
according to the study. Although they
still make up by far the
largest share of the state's feedlots,
the percentage of the
state's cattle-feeding industry in such
small operations has
steadily declined since then, to 86.6 percent
in 2000. Much of the
shift in Nebraska has been to feedlots with
capacities ranging from
1,000 to 3,999, which comprised 3.3 percent
of the total in 1980
and nearly 9 percent by 2000.
The report is at <http:/
/agecon.unl.edu/cafio/research/workingpapers/I300.pdf>.
Multimedia, tech courses planned for
spring
Information Services offers a variety of
introductory classes
in the latest multimedia software throughout
the year. They provide
an easy, low-cost way to keep your skills
fresh on the latest
technology tools for teaching and research.
Workshops generally run for two hours and cost $20. One-hour
sessions are $10, and Blackboard introductory courses are free.
Payment is due upon registration and may be made using a cost
object or by check. Refunds are allowed up to 48 hours in advance
only. Substitutions are allowed. To register, call our assistant
at
472-9050 or register in the 501 Building, Room 118. Space
is
limited, and reservations are required.
All workshops will
be in the New Media Center in Architecture
Hall room 107 unless
otherwise noted.
For more information regarding specific
workshop content,
e-mail <training@unl.edu>.
Introduction to Blackboard
- Jan. 10, 9-11
a.m.
- Jan. 15, 10 a.m. to noon
- Jan. 23, 2-4 p.m.,
Animal Science 223
- Jan. 27, 2-4 p.m.
- April 11,
9-11 a.m., Animal Science 223
- April 24, 1-3 p.m.
Every instructor at UNL already has Blackboard Web space.
In
this workshop, faculty and teaching assistants can learn to
set up
a basic course on Blackboard and the tools and features
available.
Blackboard is user-friendly, and no knowledge of HTML
is needed to
share information with students via the Web. Blackboard
intro
workshops are free, but register in advance.
Using
Blackboard Series
These workshops will explore
Blackboard's functions more in-depth.
Each two-hour workshop
focuses on an area of tools within Blackboard.
Loading content into Blackboard
Feb. 5, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Animal Science 223
An
in-depth, hands-on session for loading content into Blackboard
such as Word documents, PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, graphics,
web pages, etc.
Blackboard communication
tools
Feb. 20, 1-3 p.m., Animal
Science 223
Virtual classroom, discussion boards and
email functions will
be covered.
Blackboard assessment tools
March 5, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Animal Science 223
How to
build test pools, assessments and surveys, and using
the grade
book will be the topics for this session.
Using Adobe Photoshop Series
This
series of workshops will start with the basics, using
Photoshop
Elements. It then covers several popular Photoshop
techniques
useful for Photoshop Elements and the full version
of Photoshop.
The series is being offered early in the semester
and again
mid-semester. Familiarity with Photoshop required for
all except
the basics workshops.
Photoshop
Elements Basics
Jan. 17, 10-11
a.m.
March 24, 3-4 p.m.
Covers some
basic tools and how Photoshop Elements is different
from the
full Photoshop application. Participants will be working
with
features that are unique to Elements such as making panoramas,
the recipes palette and red-eye removal along with basic image
editing.
Photoshop Basics
Jan. 24, 10-11 a.m.
March 31,
3-4 p.m.
This workshop is for the first-time or novice
user of Photoshop.
Some of Photoshop's tools and basic image
editing will be covered.
Photoshop
Selections, Layers and Adjustment layers
Jan. 31, 10-11 a.m.
April 7, 3-4 p.m.
This class discusses which selection tools work better than
others for specific selection tasks. It also covers what layers
are and how to make the most out of them, along with what adjustment
layers are.
Photoshop Photo
Retouching
Feb. 7, 10-11
a.m.
April 14, 3-4 p.m.
Touching up
photographs that have exposure problems and flaws
will be
covered. Also, this class will discuss how to restore
old
photos like the professionals.
Photoshop
Color Correction and Vectors
Feb. 14, 10-11 a.m.
April 21, 3-4 p.m.
Learn how and why to use vectors to create shapes and paths.
Focus on using Photoshop's curves to color-correct skin and neutral
tones easily. Also covered will be adjusting the light and dark
tones of an image for better printing and publishing.
Photoshop for Photographers
Feb. 21, 10 a.m. to noon
April 28, 3-5 p.m.
Learn the advanced Photoshop techniques that professional
photographers use. Everything from color correction to sharpening
images will be covered.
Using Macromedia Flash Series
This series of workshops
will give attendees a basic introduction
to the most widely used
tool for creating animations and interactivity
on the web. Those
interested should take all three workshops.
Part 1: Introduction to Drawing Tools
March 19, 1-2 p.m.
This workshop will give beginners
an insight into Flash's
drawing tools and creating a
button.
Part 2: Flash Tweens
March 20, 1-2 p.m.
Attendees
will learn how to create basic shape and motion
tweens as well
as be introduced to scenes and the timeline.
Part 3: Basic Interactivity
March 21, 1-2 p.m.
A simple flash animation will be
created with button interactions
and sound then converted for
use on a web page.
Basic
HTML/Netscape Composer
Feb. 4, 10
a.m. to noon
Feb. 10, 2-4 p.m.
This basic
workshop will teach how to quickly and simply create
a Web page
using Netscape and how to post it on a Web server.
The basics of
HTML will also be covered.
Macromedia
Director
Feb. 19, 1-3 p.m.
This workshop will be a hands-on session exploring the varied
uses for Macromedia Director. Learn to use Director for presentations,
animations, web development and multimedia.
Full-text Journal Article Access and Electronic Reserves
Feb. 21, 1-3 p.m.
Learn to create
direct links to full-text electronic journal
articles in the UNL
Libraries' extensive collection of online
journals and build a
dynamic search page of full-text articles
that's continually
updated. This session will show how to embed
these links into
course web pages or Blackboard course sites
using tools such as
Page Composer and Electronic Reserves. Also
discussed will be
fair use of copyrighted materials for curriculum
development and
services to students learning at a distance.
Introduction to Macromedia Dreamweaver
March 7, 2-4 p.m.
Learn to use the basics of
Dreamweaver to build Web sites.
See how to use the site manager,
create a simple Web page, create
links and anchors, add graphics,
and make simple mouseovers.
Macromedia
Dreamweaver - Part 2
March 14, 2-4
p.m.
(Basic Dreamweaver experience required)
Learn to use the more advanced features in Dreamweaver including
the basics of layers, frames and templates.
Digitizing Video
March 4, 1-3
p.m.
March 26, 2-4 p.m.
Learn to
effectively transfer old video to digital video.
This workshop
will go through the steps to creating a stand-alone
video
project. Learn about the required hardware and software,
project
planning, digital recording, transferring the data to
computer,
editing footage and compressing a final project.
Searching the Web Effectively
March 27, 2-4 p.m.
Learn to use the World Wide Web to
effectively find what you
are looking for. Various search engines
and techniques will be
demonstrated. Some common myths about the
Internet will be dispelled
as well.
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