Breakout Sessions at a Glance
| Time | Track 1A Community of Practice Successes and Strategies |
Track 1B Community of Practice Successes and Strategies |
Track 2 eXtension Implementation at the State and Local Level |
Track 3 Effective Use of eXtension Tools and Technologies |
Track 4 Key eXtension Discussions (Round Tables) |
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| Wed. 10/21
1:30 – 2:15pm |
Combined session
eXtension’s HorseQuest – Getting Equine Education to the Top of the List – Kathy Anderson Going Viral: Using the Audience to Market HorseQuest Content – Betsy Greene |
Home Energy CoP Sucess Stories – Shirley Niemeyer | How to Host Your Own Webinar and Why – Floyd Davenport | Making your Virtual World Project a Reality, with the eXtension in Second Life ® Mentors – LuAnn Phillips | Engaging the Research Community – Jill Heemstra |
| Wed. 10/21
2:30 – 3:15pm |
Combined session
A FINRA Funded Grant: A FSA Success - Nancy M. Porter Bringing “Adding It Up” to eXtension – Rebecca Travnichek |
Virtual Team Building: Getting your CoP Up, Running, and Moving Forward – Terry Meisenbach | Technologies for Creating Educational Content for Online Programs – Floyd Davenport | Combined session
Engaging Emerging Populations of Adults with Interactive Activities in a 3D Virtual Learning Environment -Kristin Woods Second what? A case study using Second Life for teaching applied agronomic topics – Deana Namuth-Covert |
Building Connections Between Research Communities and eXtension – Rick Koelsch |
| Wed. 10/21
3:30 – 4:15pm |
Financial Security: Managing Money in Tough Times – Michael S. Gutter | Combined session
Growing a CoP: Managing Turnover, Business and Deadlines in the CoP - Bo Beaulieu Building a Community of Practice from the Ground Up: Blueprint from Youth Entrepreneurship – Debra Jean Kantor |
Yes, a multi-state collaboration can produce success, plus more! – Jody Johnson | Combined session
Using eXtension Response Tools to Help Consumers During Tough Economic Times – Barbara O’Neill Using Chats and Webinars to Engage and Recruit CoP Members – Patricia Swanson |
eXtension Tools for Local Research and Outreach – Molly Spaulding |
| Wed. 10/21
4:30 – 5:15pm |
Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center: A Review of Accomplishments, Impacts and Future Direction – Jill Heemstra | Communications Leadership in eXtension CoPs - Virginia Morgan & Carol Whatley | How the Virtual News Room Works for You – Lynette Spicer | Rapid Fire Community Engagement – Using Workgroup to Generate Content – Amy Hays | Community Food Systems and Civic Agriculture – Letitia (Tish) Johnson |
| Thurs. 10/22
8:00 – 8:45am |
Social Media Strategies and Streams for Engaging Communities of Interest and Practice – Karen Jeannette | Online Tools for Community Management: Ideas from eOrganic - John McQueen | Sensemaking for Qualitative Research: The research methodologies used by the Ask an Expert Task force – Kevin Gamble | Using eXtension Tools, Technologies, and Concepts to Improve Extension Work – Jerold R. Thomas | Connecting with Communities of Interest: The evaluation challenge – Michael Lambur |
| Thurs. 10/22
9:00 – 9:45am |
Enhancing Statewide Needs through Screencasts in eXtension: A geospatial case study – Shannon H. White | Strategies for Identifying and Organizing Content to Expedite Publication – Sue Hawkins | Guidelines for Information Technology-based Promotion & Tenure Expectations and Metrics: A Proposal – Robert Hughes, Jr. | More than a tool, software reflects organizational values – Jason Young | Evaluating the Entrepreneurs and their Communities Section of eXtension’s Website: What Have We Learned and What Challenges Do We Face? - Louis V. Bassano |
| Thurs. 10/22
10:00 – 10:45am |
Good, Better, Best: Engaging Your CoP Audience Through Directed, But Interactive Webcasts – Christine Skelly and Betsy Greene | Getting to Quality Content: Editorial Experiences of eOrganic and Other CoPs – Debra Heleba | Implementing the eXtension Widget on County web sites in Ohio: A case study – Jerry Thomas | Evaluate Your Content with Google Analytics (by Category) – Ben MacNeill | Ask an Expert Discussion Roundtable – Aaron Hundley |
| Thurs. 10/22
11:00 – 11:45am |
eXtension and Map@Syst Go Global – A 2.5 inch Experiment – Amy Hays | Duck, Duck, Goose! – Glenda Freeman | Be, Grow, Create Phase 2 @ Oregon State – Mark Anderson-Wilk, Alex Stone, and John McQueen | Introducing ideas for establishing a social media strategy – Anne Adrian | Ask an Expert Responder Issues and Training Development – Karen Jeannette |
| Thurs. 10/22
1:30 – 2:15pm |
JITP web 2.0 upgrades: Retooling Just In Time Parenting’s e-newsletters and web presence – Andrew Behnke | eXtension and the Youth Audience – Tony Cook | Assessing County Extension Program’s Readiness to Adopt Technology: They Don’t Know What They Don’t’ Know - Dana Martin and Jeff Hino |
Moodle-Making in 8 steps or less – Jennifer Jahedkar | The Scholarship of eXtension – Debra Pankow |
| Thurs. 10/22
2:30 – 3:15pm |
Beef Cattle Clearinghouse-Successes and Future Direction – Rick Rasby | Get Connected–Becoming an eXtension Member (for Non-Extension Faculty) - Charlene LeBleu | Strengthening Extension’s Capacity to Develop Civic Programs that Promote Public Dialogue, Deliberation, Action, and Learning: Results of a National Needs Assessment – Loretta Singletary | The effectiveness of e-mail updates as an educational delivery method – Aaron Ebata | What Are You Reading & Why? – Terry Meisenbach |
| Thurs. 10/22
3:30 – 4:15pm |
Effective Review Standards: The Role of Authors, Editors, Reviewers, Users, and Communicators in Quality Control and Usability – Mark Anderson-Wilk | Rangelands CoP and the Western Rangelands Partnership: Integrating Programs to Serve our Stakeholders – John Tanaka | North Dakota Soil Conservation District Supervisor Accreditation – Dan Folske | Developing Forage Based Online Learning Lessons for Horse Owners – Carey Williams | Sustainability through Leadership – Share DeCroix Bane, Ph.D. |
| Thurs. 10/22
4:30 – 5:15pm |
Regional Development Strategies: Building New Opportunity – Sharon Gulick | A Creative Approach to Generating eXtension Publications in the Family Caregiving CoP - Amy F. Hosier | Marketing Manager –
Mike Whitesides |
Tools for Harnessing Members – Kim Hand | Linking eXtension CoP’s with Existing Web-based Information – Steve Quarles |
