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Cooperative Extension and Technology

Cooperative Extension and Technology. Partners for the Future eXtension – Education for Today Michael Lambur - Virginia Tech Kathleen T. Morgan - Rutgers University. What is eXtension?.

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Cooperative Extension and Technology

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  1. Cooperative Extension and Technology Partners for the Future eXtension – Education for Today Michael Lambur - Virginia Tech Kathleen T. Morgan - Rutgers University

  2. What is eXtension? • An evolving, virtual, customer-centered educational environment that will provide the most current, objective, research-based information from the Land-Grant University System for anyone, at any time, on any device, and in any location. • Founded on the principles of distributing useful and practical information from the entire land-grant system. • It will minimize duplication and aggregate information through identifying the “best of the best” materials.

  3. Communities of Practice (CoP) Communities of Practice are expected to actively engage in content development and collaboration with peers to create the best-of-the-best materials for deployment in the Extension Web portal of eXtension.

  4. What is a Community of Practice? • A virtual network of subject matter content providers consisting of faculty, professional and para-professional staff, county educators, industry experts, clientele, and government agencies. • They share knowledge or competence in a specific content area and are willing to work and learn together over a period of time to further develop and share that knowledge in forms of educational products and programs.

  5. What eXtension Delivers • Articles of content with related images, video, or multimedia features • FAQs and Ask an Expert (AnE) • News • Calendar Events • Learning Lessons • Decision Tools • Live Online Chats • Collaborative wiki • Social networking tools

  6. Let’s Look at the eXtension Public Website • http://www.extension.org/

  7. Behind the Scenes: Wiki’s • The wiki is the application that is used to create content that is published to the eXtension public website. • The wiki allows for flexible editing and will track user changes over time so no version of a document is ever lost. • The wiki also allows you to enter metadata that will track your contributions in reports back to you and university administration. • The wiki allows for collaboration of the entire community on a single article and will house this content for future edits and updates and easy republishing to the live site as needed.

  8. CoP Membership • New members may contact the leadership directly by finding the leadership contact information on the CoP Wiki's Community Home page. • However now leadership can login to people.extension.org and view the list of all eXtension ID holders who have designated their CoP and find new interested volunteers.

  9. Let’s Look at the Wiki’s • http://about.extension.org/

  10. Families, Food and Fitness Community of Practice Vision The Families Food and Fitness Community of Practice’s vision is to become a source of research-based information for families as they work to eat smart, move more and achieve a healthy weight. Mission The Families Food and Fitness Community of Practice will provide education and skills to help families make informed decisions about healthy eating and physical activity by providing them with evidence (science/research) - based information and learning opportunities through eXtension.

  11. Families, Food and Fitness CoP The multi-state, multidisciplinary eXtension CoP will utilize the collaboration organized around the three goals of this “Families, Food and Fitness; Preventing Obesity” CoP, which are for the participants of the CoI to (1) Improve diets; (2) Increase physical activity; and (3) Maintain body weight in a healthy range and avoid excess weight gain.

  12. Families, Food and Fitness CoP Content Categories Prepare More Meals at Home Move More Everyday Enjoy More Fruits and Vegetables Portion Control Re-Think Your Drink Tame the Tube

  13. Let’s look at the Families, Food and Fitness eXtension site • http://www.demo.extension.org/families%20food%20fitness

  14. Evaluating eXtension—And other Websites • Google Analytics • Tracks interactions with the website • And it’s free! • InstantSurvey • Used to get feedback directly from website users

  15. Let’s Look at Google Analytics • https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/login?ctu=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fanalytics%2Fsettings%2F%3Fet%3Dreset%26hl%3Den-US

  16. Let’s Look at InstantSurvey • http://www.instantsurvey.com/login.asp

  17. Thanks!Questions??

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