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Pacific Agriculture
Communicator's Workshop
College of Tropical
Agriculture and Human Resources, UH-Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
April 10-14, 1999


Purpose:
To increase communication abilities of
information disseminators and trainers in the entire Pacific region.
The increased sharing of agricultural and resource information, for
the well being of the people of the Pacific, will be the short and
long term outcome of this workshop.
Sponsored and supported by:
Agricultural Development in the American Pacific (ADAP)
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR-UH)
Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE)
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
Institute for Research, Extension and Training in Agriculture
(IRETA)
Instructors from:
Kansas State University
New Mexico State University
University of Hawaii
Thanks
to Adobe Software for providing the site
license!
Our Tentative
Agenda...
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Saturday, April 10
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Sunday, April 11
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Monday, April 12
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Tuesday, April 13
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Wednesday, April 14
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8:30 am
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Ag Day Festival '99 - learn about how we show and tell
the people of Hawaii about the importance of
agriculture.
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Introduction of
everyone!
What would you like to get out of
this workshop?
What have you brought to
"make-over"?
What's on the Web-CC
-Web surfing, e-answers
-looking at web files not online
-pdf/html what each is
Session Goal: everyone
understands how web works, what a browser does, and will
have understanding of why we're learning html, PDF's,
etc.
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Photoshop basics - Barb
- Create graphic for print
- images from digital camera
- Go into Pagemaker and put in image (slide that has been
'reworked)
Session Goal: depending on
Photoshop skill, Participants will be able to do
something with a photo to prepare it for print,
beginners will crop and correct, more advanced may play with
filters for cool edge of photo.
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HTML basics - Barb
- Text, headers, lists, colors, links
Also, Building a better web site --
advanced with CC if there is a need...
Session Goal: participants
will be able to make a web site. If more advanced, will
understand tips/tricks to design more wisely
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Breakout Sessions depending on
interest/need
- Quicktime movies for web, digitizing -
CC
- Pagemaker/Acrobat info -
George
- Photoshop - Barb
-CD burning demo, CC
Session Goal: ability for
participants to improve skills in any one of the areas
covered previously
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pm
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Ag Day Festival '99
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Design Basics- George
-Basics of Design
-PageMaker training
-Produce PDF
Session Goal: using print as
medium, participants will develop their design skills,
improving use of space, etc. Participants will also get
beginnings of PageMaker, and know how to generate a
PDF.
5:00 approx. Working
dinner.
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Zooming with Exchange-
George
- Acrobat, using Exchange to modify it: rotating, cropping,
deleting, linking
- maybe scanning document to OCR to PDF
Session Goal: begin to
understand 'programming' in Exchange, using as layout,
multimedia tool, create exchange document
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More with HTML/Editors-
Barb
-HTML image placement, tables, design discussion,
- possibly using an editor
- Photoshop creating gif/jpg, put in web page.
Session Goal: by end,
participants will have made own web page, and understand
difference in image types, and in using html or a web
editor.
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Continued breakouts
-Filemaker Pro with CC
Open lab with Barb &
George
Joint Session
- wrap up
Session Goal: understand how
to write a CD-ROM. Each participant will have a CD with
their ag day experience documented
Building a Pacific and/or Tropical
e-answers - can we do it? who wants to participate? -
Jim
end of workshop -
Aloha!
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Participants from:
American Samoa
Samoa
Tonga
Taiwan
Soloman Islands
Fiji
Vanuatu
Papua New Guinea
Hawaii
Federated States of Micronesia
Saipan |