Agenda
Breakout Sessions at a Glance
Monday, October 19 – Preconference
- Better Kid Care America
- Entrepreneurs and Their Communities
- Family Caregiving
Tuesday, October 20
- Better Kid Care America
- Consumer Horticulture
- Entrepreneurs and Their Communities
- Family Caregiving
- Water Conservation in Lawn and Landscape
- Families, Food and Fitness - (Plaza Ballroom 2)
Register here for the Moodle Pre-Conference Workshop
Many institutions, including eXtension, have selected and are using Moodle as their online course delivery system. Moodle effectively reaches public audiences with in-depth learning content, and eXtension provides Moodle space for anyone in the Cooperative Extension System to develop an online course.
Participants in this 1/2day preconference workshop will have their own course shells in which to work, and will learn how to create various resources and activities supporting a course topic of their choosing. Courses begun during this workshop will be available for participants to complete and actually release for enrollment as desired to support their respective Extension education efforts. The only pre-requisite is to have an eXtension ID and an idea for a course you would like to develop.
It will be helpful to bring supporting files (graphic images, word processing files, etc.) that can be uploaded or copied into Moodle. Bring your own computer.
- How to become a fully functional eXtension Community of Practice
- Introduction to tools and technologies of eXtension
- How to use eXtension on a daily basis
- Discoverability and keywords
- Financial Security for All
- Map@ Syst
- Open to ALL Leadership Team Members of each Community of Practice
- Agenda to include discussion of eXtension Community of Practice business practices, sponsorships and partnership guidelines
- Second Life Mixer
Exhibits by Communities of Practice and Institutional Teams- Better Kid Care America-Lesia Oesterreich
- DAIReXNET-Nancy Chenault
- Families, Food, & Fitness-Jane Clary
- eOrganic-John McQueen
- Drinking Water & Human Health-Kate Reilly
- HorseQuest-Kathy Anderson
- Bee Health-Mike Wilson
- Wildfire Information Network-Stephen Quarles
- Beef-Rick Rasby
- Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center-Rick Koelsch
- Financial Security for All-Pat Swanson
- Sustainable Ag Energy-Sue Hawkins
- EDEN-Virginia Morgan
- Entrepreneurs-Bo Beaulieu & Mary Peabody
- Map@Syst-John Nowatzki
- Family Caregiving-Jatunn Gibson
- Home Energy-Shirley Niemeyer
- Imported Fire Ants – Bart Drees and Paul Nester
- Pest Management in and Around Structures – Fudd Graham, Jerri Caldwell, and Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
- Diversity in Higher Education-Pamala V. Morris
- Wildlife Damage Management – Raj Smith
- Goats – David Kiesling
- Gardens, Lawns & Landscapes – Karen Jeannette
Wednesday, October 21
- Dan Cotton, Director, eXtension
- Karen Hinton, Dean and Director
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
Chair of the eXtension Governing Committee - Public Launch of the Extension Wildfire Information Network (EWIN)
– How Can eXtension Prepare for an Uncertain Future?
Russ Roberts, Adjunct Professor
Management and Organizations Department
Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Northwestern University
[1:30 – 5:15 pm] 2009 National Conference Breakout Session I
- Track 1A Community of Practice Successes and Strategies (4 sessions)
- Track 1B Community of Practice Successes and Strategies (4 sessions)
- Track 2 eXtension Implementation at the State and Local Level (4 sessions)
- Track 3 Effective Use of eXtension Tools and Technologies (4 sessions)
- Track 4 Key eXtension Discussions (round tables – 4 sessions)
[5:15 - 6:30 pm] Military Families Community of Practice Roundtable
Discussion with Cathann Kress, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Military Community and Family Policy, and Ryan Schmiesing, National Program Leader, Families 4-H, and Nutrition, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
[5:15 pm] Adjourn for the day – Dinner on your own
Thursday, October 22
[7:00 am - 8:00 am] Breakfast
- Track 1A Community of Practice Successes and Strategies (4 sessions)
- Track 1B Community of Practice Successes and Strategies (4 sessions)
- Track 2 eXtension Implementation at the State and Local Level (4 sessions)
- Track 3 Effective Use of eXtension Tools and Technologies (4 sessions)
- Track 4 Key eXtension Discussions (round tables – 4 sessions)
- Track 1A Community of Practice Successes and Strategies (4 sessions)
- Track 1B Community of Practice Successes and Strategies (4 sessions)
- Track 2 eXtension Implementation at the State and Local Level (4 sessions)
- Track 3 Effective Use of eXtension Tools and Technologies (4 sessions)
- Track 4 Key eXtension Discussions (round tables – 4 sessions)
Register here for this Future Backwards Workshop!
In this session, a Cognitive Edge Future Backwards technique will be used to develop alternative scenario planning. This technique is designed to increase the number of perspectives that a group may consider. This technique increases the understanding of different past experiences and perspectives and increases the range of possible future scenarios based on the different ideas and thoughts of the workshop participants. The objective of this session is to investigate and develop a sense of what a future Cooperative Extension will look like. The exercise includes methods that compare and contrast different past perspectives and different aspirations as to the present and the future with the goal of developing ideas for possible future scenarios.
Each participant is expected to contribute to both large and small group discussions and offer his/her perspective on past, current and future situations. We are looking for a good cross sectional representation of Extension professionals.
Friday, October 23
- Michael Ouart, Vice Provost for Extension, University of Missouri Extension, Chair, eXtension Finance Committee
- James Wade, Executive Director, ECOP, and Director of Extension and Outreach, Association of Public and Land- grant Universities
- Deborah Sheely, Deputy Administrator, Competitive Programs, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
- Cathann Kress, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Military Community and Family Policy
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Randel Raub, Director of Research and New Product Development, Purina Mills
- Michael McGirr, National Program Leader, Sustainable Development, Global Engagement, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
- Community of Practice Partnership Award
- Community of Practice Individual Achievement Awards
- Outstanding Community of Practice
- eXtension Champion Award
- Expectations for 2010 including key milestones projected to occur
- Alternate Content Management System options
- New tools and technologies to be implemented in 2010
- Metrics task force report and reporting tools
- Report of Be, Grow, Create status and roll out
- Scholarship of eXtension
- New Partnerships
