National eXtension Initiative

eXtension is excited to offer quarterly online chats to discuss issues that pertain to the care and management of your horse. Chat with equine experts from across the country and discover solutions and best practices to address these needs and learn from other horse enthusiasts that join the chat.

Topic: Managing Horses on Small Acreage

Date: May 23, 2007

Time:

* 3:00 p.m. Easternm 2:00 p.m. Central, 1:00 p.m. Mountain, and 12:00 noon Pacific

HorseQuest Experts include:

* Dr. Betsy Greene, University of Vermont
* Dr. Krishona Martinson, University of Minnesota
* Dr. Bob Mowrey, North Carolina State University
* Dr. Ann Swinker, Penn State University

Learn More and Join the Chat at:
http://www.extension.org/pages/Join_an_Online_Chat_about_Horses

eXtension will host its next national video conference on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1:30-3:30 p.m. Central; 12:30-2:00 p.m. Mountain; 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Pacific).

Agenda

1. Opportunity to visit with CoP Leaders about their participation in
eXtension
2. Identifying and establishing new CoPs in 2007
3. Call to Action – Growing participation in eXtension
4. Evaluating eXtension
5. Q&A

To join the video conference, go to: http://real.unl.edu/extension.

To phone in questions call (800) 900-4447
To FAX in questions send them to (859) 323-3986
To email questions, send them to questions@extension.org

TECHNICAL TROUBLE NUMBER: 800-755-7765

On April 24 we were fortunate to have Beth Kanter present “Ten Steps to Web 2.0 for Extension”. Now you have an opportunity to participate in another topic presented by Beth Kanter. This Wednesday, May 9 from 3:00 – 4:30 Eastern Time (2:00p CT, 1:00p MT, 12:00p PT, 11a AT, 9:00a HT) we are excited to have special guest Beth Kanter present “Tagging for Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in a Community of Practice”. Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.

Tagging (key words to describe web resources) and the use of social bookmarking services like del.icio.us can provide relatively easy ways for Extension professionals to collaborate and easily share information with colleagues and co-workers. This two-part webinar will explain what tagging is, why it is useful for individuals as well as for group collaboration, and demystify social bookmarking software. The session will also explain the pros and cons of using tagging and social bookmarking. The group will participate a hands-on action learning activity using a popular social bookmarking application, del.icio.us, to put some of the ideas in practice immediately after the first session on May 9th.

Then, on May 23rd, the group will come together for a facilitated conversation to reflect on what was learned about tagging and how they might integrate the use of tagging and social bookmarking into their existing practice.

In addition, we’ve invited Beth to repeat the session on “Ten Steps to Web 2.0 for Extension” on Thursday, May 24, 2007. If you were unable to participate in last month’s session, put this on your calendar.
This professional development session is open to all extension colleagues across the country.

Event: Beth Kanter, “Tagging for Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in a Community of Practice”
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Time: 3 p.m. Eastern (9 a.m. Hawai’i, Noon Pacific, 1 p.m. Mountain, 2 p.m. Central) 90 minute session
Web Location: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn. Enter as a Guest.

For more information, see http://tinyurl.com/29rwyl

Come learn with us!

eXtension systems staff will be doing maintenance on a few of the core servers that drive our eXtension web sites and services on this coming Sunday, May 6, 2007, from 7:30am until 11:30am Eastern Daylight Time.

Each of the *.extension.org sites will be unavailable for most of this maintenance window.