This course is not available to the public at this time

Course overview
This course provides information to retail nursery and garden center personnel to limit psyllid infestations in these environments and minimize their role in psyllid and disease spread. This includes understanding the biology of the insect and disease, how to look for each of them, existing control strategies, and best management practices in a nursery setting.

Who should enroll?
Retail nursery and garden center personnel 

Course Name: AT001B-Solar PV Basics: Load Analysis

This course is the second installment in the class AT001 - Solar Photovoltaic Basics. This class teaches you how to calculate the size required for solar systems by analyzing the load of the devices you plan to operate.

The course contains video so it requires a computer that can play audio and video.

Course Name: AT003-Solar PV Modules

This video is the first installment in the AT003 course focusing on Solar Photovoltaic Modules and how to interpret the module cut sheets. Contact uafrank0@arizona.edu with any questions about the course!

Course Name: AT009-Drone Applications in Agriculture

This course will address the use of drones for agriculture including spray applications, and field data acquisition. Questions? Contact Dr. Ed Franklin at uafrank0@arizona.edu

Avian Influenza Biosecurity for Emergency Responders is a self-directed certification course designed for emergency response personnel. Participants will gain vital information on bio-security measures and emergency management procedures that are necessary to prevent, contain, and recover an avian influenza outbreak. For more information contact Nathaniel Tablante, University of Maryland at nlt@umd.edu.

The Vermont Backyard Woods Course is designed for homeowners with less than 25 acres who want to learn more about the woods in their backyard: what’s in it, who (wildlife) uses it, and how they can become better caretakers of it.

The course explores the following themes: An Introduction to Your Backyard and Beyond; Getting to Know Your Woods; Backyard Woods Projects; Developing a Backyard Woods Action Plan.

About the Course

• This is an introductory course, designed to give landowners basic skills and connect them to resources available.
• The self-paced course is hosted online and is composed of 4 sections. Each section has videos and activities that are to be completed on your own schedule.
• Participants will be invited to join drop-in webinar sessions with experts.
• There will be two optional in-person walks.

Who should join this course?

• Homeowners who own 5-25 acres.
• Homeowners who want to become more active stewards of their land, but don't know where to start.
• Homeowners who want to learn general ecology in Vermont.

By the end of the program participants will:

• Understand why their backyard woods matter, the benefits it provides, and how it contributes to Vermont’s forest landscape.
• Identify natural history and cultural features in their backyard woods.
• Identify and rank stewardship goals and objectives for their property.
• Develop a stewardship action plan with a project schedule and plan for implementing stewardship activities.
• Increase awareness and connection to resources and organizations available to assist landowners in post-course activities.

Questions?

Contact Gwen Kozlowski at gwen.kozlowski@uvm.edu or 802-651-8343

Basic Radio 101 for North Dakota Emergency Responders is a self-directed course for paid and volunteer people who serve in EMS, law enforcement, firefighting and other first responder activities. Participants will learn how to use their radios appropriately, protocols to follow and how to troubleshoot common problems. For more information, contact Brenda Vossler, N.D. Department of Emergency Services training and exercise officer, at (701) 328-8106 or blvossler@nd.gov. For technical support, contact Becky Koch, (701) 231-7875 or becky.koch@ndsu.edu, with North Dakota State University Agriculture Communication.

Students will learn skills to prepare them for post-secondary opportunities. In the 11th grade course, students will learn about scholarships and financial aid, resumes and applications, interviews, and post-secondary options. 

About the Course:

This course is for program directors, coordinators, staff or anyone directly involved in working with volunteers.

Upon completion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Describe the benefits volunteers provide to programs and organizations
• Identify the roles and responsibilities of those involved in working with volunteers
• Identify the characteristics of an effective volunteer program 
• Use the 7-step ISOTURE model to help build volunteer engagement

Along the way, learners will assess their own program, using self-guided activities and resources and develop a volunteer engagement action plan.

Contact:

For more information or to enroll please contact:

• Gemma Miner, UC ANR, Academic Coordinator for Volunteer Engagement  gmminer@ucanr.edu
• UC ANR Course Support, idevelopsupport@ucanr.edu

For experienced facilitators interested in expanding their facilitation skills and implementing this training program as instructors, we are offering a Train the Trainer course concurrent with the core Building Your Virtual Facilitation Skills training. 

Train the Trainer participants will be expected to engage in core course content to gain familiarity with the content and structure of the training.  In addition to core content, Train the Trainer cohort participants will participate in an additional hour per week of Live content as well as additional content on the course page to build skills in virtual content creation/adaptation and delivery.

Building Your Virtual Facilitation Skills, Train the Trainer participants will receive access to instructor materials including facilitator outlines for each session, course planning materials and web platform participant materials.  Cohort sessions will explore implementation best practices, with technical support for adapting and implementing the training in your state. 

Live Weekly Sessions, Fall Series: (All Times are Eastern)

Note:  The first two hours of each live session are core content.  The third hour includes only the train the trainer cohort.
* March 22, 2023 | 12:00-3:00pm
* March 29, 2023 | 12:00-3:00pm
* April 5, 2023 | 12:00-3:00pm
* April 12, 2023 | 12:00-3:00pm
*April 19, 2023 | 12:00-3:00pm

For any questions, please reach out to Sue Cagle at sue.cagle@unh.edu.

The audience for this Buying a Tractor course is Farmers and land owners who are interested in learning how to select the correct tractor for the intended purpose.

For more information or to enroll please contact: Mark Hall, Auburn University/ Alabama Cooperative Extension System, at hallmah@auburn.edu

The audience for this course is urban pesticide applicators, Master Gardeners and other state extension educators.

Students will learn to calculate pesticide applications using real equipment calibration examples.

By the end of the series, you will be able to:
•       Calculate basic pesticide math.
•       Calibrate yourself to your equipment.
•       Calculate pesticide applications.

These courses are built for a desktop computer.

For more information, please contact University of Idaho Extension at cals-ipm@uidaho.edu.