National eXtension Initiative

It seems like everywhere you go on the Internet today someone is asking you to tag things. This session will discuss the philosophy behind the tagging and compare it to the older methods of taxonomies and controlled vocabularies, how and why it works, strategies to help you tag more effectively, and the power of collaborative tagging. This session is targeted for people just getting started with social networking software, and is designed to get you off to a good start, and to help you avoid the most common pitfalls. (For all Extension)

Plan to join us on January 24, 2008 for this online professional development opportunity presented by Kevin Gamble, associate director for eXtension.

Give us 30 minutes and we’ll teach you something useful! This session will be held at our Web Conferencing Center at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn and your telephone. Plan to join the session 5 minutes before the starting time. Each session will be held at 3:00p Eastern Time (2:00p CT, 1:00p MT, 12:00n PT, 11:00a AT; 9:00a HT) unless otherwise noted. Get more information about participating…

Learn how organizations are using prediction markets to chart their strategic future. Adam Siegel, co-founder of Inkling Markets (http://inklingmarkets.com/) will share how prediction markets are being used to forecast the answers by buying and selling shares in stocks representing alternative outcomes. Using a stock market-like mechanism allows people to express their opinion as a “weighted vote” over time in response to new information or a change of opinion. Unlike a poll, a prediction market is asking “what will happen?” vs. “what do you want to happen?” Join us to learn how progressive organizations are using prediction markets to guide their decision making.

Plan to join us on January 30, 2008 for this special online professional development opportunity.

This session will be held at our Web Conferencing Center at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn and your telephone. Plan to join the session 5 minutes before the starting time. This session will be held at 2:00p Eastern Time (1:00p CT, 12:00n MT, 11:00a PT, 10:00a AT; 8:00a HT). Get more information about participating…

Typically held the first and third Mondays of every month from 2-3:30pm ET, in the chat of the Moodle 101 course, which you can enter as a guest. During the chat we get together in Moodle text chat to share stories, ideas and provide support for Moodle.

On Monday Jan 7th our topic will be Forums and on Monday Feb 4th our topic will be the Glossary module. There will be no MoodleMeet on Mon Jan 21 as it’s a holiday.

To join go to the chat of the Moodle 101 course.

This session will show you how simple it is to use Google search technology to create a free Custom Search Engine that reflects your knowledge and interests. It will also show you the Cooperative Extension CSE, teach you how to place a custom widget on your own site, and show how you can participate in a collaborative environment to further customize and make it better. (For all Extension)

Plan to join us on January 17, 2008 for this online professional development opportunity presented by Kevin Gamble, associate director for eXtension.

Give us 30 minutes and we’ll teach you something useful! This session will be held at our Web Conferencing Center at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn and your telephone. Plan to join the session 5 minutes before the starting time. Each session will be held at 3:00p Eastern Time (2:00p CT, 1:00p MT, 12:00n PT, 11:00a AT; 9:00a HT) unless otherwise noted. Get more information about participating…

A large percentage of the hits to your web site come from search engines. This session on search engine optimization includes tips and techniques that will help people find your pages. We’ll talk about things that you can do on your pages to help boost its ratings, things you should never do and things that other people do that help your site. This session is in conjunction with the ACE IT SIG. (For all Extension)

Plan to join us on January 15, 2008 for this online professional development opportunity presented by ACE member Brian Webster, Iowa State Extension.

Give us 30 minutes and we’ll teach you something useful! This session will be held at our Web Conferencing Center at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn and your telephone. Plan to join the session 5 minutes before the starting time. Each session will be held at 3:00p Eastern Time (2:00p CT, 1:00p MT, 12:00n PT, 11:00a AT; 9:00a HT) unless otherwise noted. Get more information about participating…

We will have our next Round Table to make plans for Cooperative Extension’s areas in Second Life. Join us on January 10 at 11 AM SLT (Second Life Time) (same as 2:00 PM ET) If you are interested in knowing more, join the Cooperative Extension Second Life Educators group in Facebook. This session will be held at our Web Conferencing Center at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn and your telephone. Plan to join the session 5 minutes before the starting time.

On the 2nd and 4th Fridays of every month the CES Second Life educators meet-up inworld to learn new skills or visit interesting educational builds. The learning parts of the meet-ups are led by fellow participants, and are designed to be lightweight and appropriate for all skill levels. Join us on eXtension’s Morrill Island on January 11 and/or 25 at 11:30 AM SLT (2:30 ET). Go to this location using your Second Life client: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Morrill/165/136/29

eXtension’s Collaborate Wiki is the place for the whole Cooperative Extension System to work. This session will show you what you need to do to get started working in the collaborate wiki and show you some examples of how others are using it today. (For all Extension)

Plan to join us on January 8 for this online professional development opportunity presented by Kevin Gamble, associate director for eXtension.

Give us 30 minutes and we’ll teach you something useful! This session will be held at our Web Conferencing Center at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn and your telephone. Plan to join the session 5 minutes before the starting time. Each session will be held at 3:00p Eastern Time (2:00p CT, 1:00p MT, 12:00n PT, 11:00a AT; 9:00a HT) unless otherwise noted. Get more information about participating…