Nov2008UnitMeeting

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County, District, Administrative Support IT Team

• Steve Paz
• Jeffrey SoRelle
• Weldon Floyd
• Aimee Sandifeer
• Greg Thomas
• Pete Flores
• Jim Bradford
• Rory Harper

Functions:

• Professional development and technical training
• Cost share program implementation and setup
• Agency wide IT consulting and problem solving services
• Distance education design, training, and support
• Resource for staff, agents, and specialists to enhance their educational programs
• Video conferencing systems implementation, installation, troubleshooting, and training
• Secondary network and server support
• Wireless local area network installation and maintenance
• Network installation and website maintenance
• Hardware and software installation, training, and maintenance

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• Cost-share - Distribution of equipment over the past 2 years and how we are supporting new cost-share installations by percentage (onsite setup, remote setup, or client setup)
  • The use of a Limited Account user accounts for network shares. Thus allowing county level un-managed password changes of Client accounts and disabling of Guest account.
  • Standard set of software installed
    • MS Office
    • Windows Defender
    • Corel X3
    • Spyblaster
    • CCleaner
    • Adobe 8 Pro
    • Symantec 10.x
    • Spybot 1.5
  • How is Windows Vista going to change this list of "standard softwares" installed? Which are need and which are not?
  • What will the County-Support CD look like with two vastly different OS out there?
  • What is the future of 4H Plus and do we have alternatives?
• Responding to an absence of communication from the state 4H folks regarding updates and issues in 4H+ (are they on their own?)

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Collaborative development of new Agent education modules (kind of an ExTension for our folks ie- How many different lessons on creating GW groups do we really need?)

• What topics should we address?
• Which formats are most effective for Agents and practical for us? (web page, pdf, streaming video, ppt, others)
• Specific lessons within each topic?
• What do we already have available? -- let's do an inventory and find out
• Eclectic - open source - free form posting or centralized coordination?

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CEA-Forum, RPD-Forum, BLT-Forum...you get the drift

• What if - CEA's across the state had a way to share ideas and experiences with each other?
• What if there was a forum where older Agents could offer wisdom and advice to younger Agents?
• What if Agents could post questions and comments to a body of knowledge and expect to find answers and ideas based on common experiences?

• What if a majority of CEA's across the state collaborated on authoring an on-line book about building successful county Extension programs and careers as a CEA?
• What if it was all indexed and searchable via the web?

Think it would sell? Would it sell on a regional basis? Southern US region? Northern and Western US regions?

I'd like to share some ideas and demonstrate the tools for helping this happen.