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Welcome to Extension Quick Bytes, online technology enrichment for Extension!

The main barrier to learning new technologies is having the TIME. Quick Bytes makes it easy to keep up with technology.

"Quick Bytes" are bite-sized introductions to a wide variety of today's educational technology. You will finish each quick and fun unit having seen each technology with your own eyes, learned some potential uses for it, and knowing where to get more information.

Quick Bytes enables you to Own Personally the Task of Becoming Proficient with Today's Digital Tools

The goals of Quick Bytes are to:
  1. increase Extension's familiarity with today's readily-available educational technologies
  2. model a learner-centered online learning environment
  3. create a community of lifelong tech learners among a geographically distributed audience
Who is Quick Bytes for?

Quick Bytes' primary audience is Extension faculty and staff at the University of Minnesota. However, anyone interested in learning technologies is welcome to join in!

Quick Bytes is geared for an audience of educators who are interested in free and low-cost technologies to use to increase the quality of and access to their educational materials.

Thanks for being part of this learning adventure!