December 7, 2007
Topics in today's issue of Extension Update:
STORM DISASTER RESOURCES ON EXTENSION HOMEPAGE
As southwestern Washington residents begin the long, hard process of recovering from recent wind and floods, Washington State University Extension has compiled a list of WSU Extension educators and Web sites that offer relevant, timely information to help them with the aftermath of this disaster. From the WSU Extension homepage click on http://ext.wsu.edu/flood.html for more information.
2007 COUNTY MOA CLOSEOUT - SPECIAL ATTENTION TO COUNTY DIRECTORS
Extension's Grants Team is diligently working to close out county MOAs for 2007 and have been in contact with county directors to ensure all
2007 expenses are accounted for in final billings (which are due early January for many counties). Please be sure that you have reviewed your MOAs and communicate any special circumstances (i.e. annual or sick leave payouts, contracts) or concerns to Esther Tate (etate@wsu.edu), Joan Root (rootj@wsu.edu) or Jennifer Jansen (jjansen@wsu.edu) as soon as possible.
WSAC AFFILIATE OFFICERS FOR 2007-2008
WASHINGTON STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES (WSAC) officers for our WSU Extension Affiliate were elected at the county directors' conference in Vancouver in November and they are:
- Margaret Viebrock, Chair (1st year of two-year term)
- Arno Bergstrom, Vice-Chair (1st year of two-year term)
- Janet Schmidt, Trustee, eastern WA
- Cliff Moore, Trustee, western WA
- Vickie Parker-Clark, District Director Liaison
- Mike Gaffney, DGSS, faculty liaison
WSU SHOWCASE 2008
Please plan to highlight the impacts of your programs during the 2008 Showcase. WSU Extension has been well represented in the past at this event. It has become a critical venue for us to demonstrate the significance of our work to colleagues at WSU. Please consider submitting an abstract for a poster. Listed below is the timeline for submission of posters/displays for the 2008 Showcase. Please submit abstract to http://showcase.wsu.edu when site opens on December 10.
December 10 Site opens to accept abstracts
February 1, 2008 Submission site closes
February 7 Abstracts delivered to committee
February 12 Committee meets to review abstracts
February 14 Email sent to submitters (accepting, declining or asking for clarification
February 20 Deadline for receipt of clarifications
March 28 Academic Showcase
ENERGY PROGRAM HOLIDAY FACT SHEETS NOW AVAILABLE
WSU Extension Energy Program holiday factsheets now available for use through EnergyIdeas: The EnergyIdeas Holiday Lights factsheet at:
http://www.energyideas.org/holiday and a gift ideas list at:
http://www.energyideas.org/documents/factsheets/03_066eic_holidaygiftlist.pdf?
NEW MARKETING POSTERS AVAILABLE!
How better to highlight the important work of WSU Extension than to highlight the people doing that work? Now, you can feature some of our organization's most effective educators on the walls of your office, hallway or conference room with new marketing posters developed from the inaugural WSU Extension photo shoot held earlier this year. You can purchase framed versions of any or all of the posters at http://ext.wsu.edu/marketing/prototype/posters.htm.
If you tried to order posters after the initial announcement a few weeks ago, we did experience some initial growing pains with the website, which have now been corrected. Please try again. Expected delivery time is two-three weeks from order date. What a great way to showcase Extension and the great work we do! Hang them proudly!
Another set of posters based on the second photo shoot will be available by the end of December.
2007-08 DIVERSITY MINI-GRANTS FUNDING -- CLOSED
The diversity mini-grant funds have been depleted for the 07-08 academic year. Applications for diversity mini grants are no longer being accepted. Thank you for your interest in mini-grant funding for training to improve language and/or cultural skills. Please look for a notice sometime this summer regarding future program funding.
COWLITZ COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICE HAS MOVED
The Cowlitz county Extension office has moved to:
1946 3rd Avenue
Longview, WA 98632
The phone number will remain the same. However, please note that the email address for Gary Fredricks at Clark County will no longer be valid shortly. Please contact Gary at: FredricksG@co.cowlitz.wa.us OR garyf@wsu.edu. Please correct your records and email address book.
BRIEFING PAPERS NOW AVAILABLE
The Veterinary Medical Research Building briefing paper and the Global Animal Health & Ag briefing papers for the supplemental legislative session are now available to the public online at the WSU legislative information web site, www.olympia.wsu.edu. Just click "state briefing papers" in the left hand column or go straight to them at:
http://www.olympia.wsu.edu/Brief.aspx. There is a printer-friendly acrobat (pdf) version available there for each as well.
Source: Larry Ganders, WSU Government Relations
DECEMBER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
eXtension's professional development opportunities are open to all Extension faculty, staff and employees. No pre-registration. Please share this announcement with others and encourage them to join us on December 18th for our special session on Copyright, or pick another topic and try it out!
COPYRIGHT ISSUES FOR eXtension
We're looking forward to a special one-hour presentation featuring lawyers Steve Wyatt and Amy Light Mills on December 18, 2007 starting at 11:00 AM Pacific Time.
Extension faculty and staff across the country are encouraged to engage in collaborative work with eXtension. This session will help more Extension employees understand copyright and how it applies to them as they work with eXtension. Join us at our Web Conferencing Center at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn and with a telephone. Plan to join the session 5 minutes before the starting time of11 AM Pacific Time. Enter as a Guest.
30 MINUTE SESSIONS
This month we are offering "30 Minute Sessions" on a new topic, Graphics in the CoP wiki, and repeats of Widgets and FAQ Orientation. Give us 30 minutes and we'll teach you something useful! These sessions 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. Check each session's description for starting time.
* Thursday, December 20 at 11:00 AM PT, we'll have a follow-up Widget session to allow participants who added Widgets to their iGoogle, Netvibes or other web page to share their experiences. This session will be open sharing of what worked for you and discussion of implications for extension program delivery and knowledge acquisition... how this changes the way information is consumed.
* December 11 at 11:00 AM PT, a "30 Minute Session" on Frequently Asked Questions Tool by Beth Raney. FAQ Orientation for agents/educators to find answers to your clients'
questions, also how everyone can contribute to enhancing quality of the FAQ System to make it a more valuable resource for you personally in your educational programming.
* December 13 at 1:00 PT, a "30 Minute Session" called Feeding Frenzy - an introduction to Feeds and Web syndication. Feeds are everywhere today. Even eXtension is syndicating everything. So what are these things? How do they work? And most importantly, how can you use them to save yourself a ton of time. Come to the Feeding Frenzy session to learn how you can start using feeds and change your life forever. an introduction to Web syndication. Feeds are everywhere today. Even eXtension is syndicating everything. So what are these things? How do they work? And most importantly, how can you use them to save yourself a ton of time. Come to the Feeding Frenzy session to learn how you can start using feeds and change your life forever. Participants will be introduced to Google Reader and it's use for managing syndication feeds. (for all Extension) Changed to 1:00 Pacific Time) This is also an ACE IT SIG event.
* December 18 at 11:00AM PT, our special one-hour session, "Copyright Issues for eXtension" (see description above)
* December 20 at 1:00 PT, follow up Widget session (see Dec. 6 "Getting Started With Widgets" above).
Add these dates & topics to your calendar, and plan to join us on for one or more of these sessions in December!!
TO PARTICIPATE in any of the 30 Minute sessions...
1. Five minutes before the start time, go to our Web Conferencing Center meeting room at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn.
2. You will be presented with a login screen that has an "Enter as Guest" option.
3. Enter your first name, your last name, and your institution/university, then click the "Enter Room" button to join the conference.
4. To hear the audio of the workshop and participate in the Q&A portion of the workshop we will be using a built-in teleconferencing capability of Adobe's Connect Pro conferencing software. Once you log into the meeting you will be presented with the option to enter your call-back number, your phone will automatically be called. After entering your number you will be automatically called and joined into the audio portion of the Web conference on your phone.
eXtension email list:
If you or a colleague would like to get notices about upcoming professional development sessions offered by eXtension, go to https://lists.extension.org/mailman/listinfo/learn and subscribe to the "Learn" email list.
eXtension recordings:
Recordings of many past professional development sessions can be found at the main eXtension wiki at http://about.eXtension.org/wiki and scroll down under Professional Development heading and find "Recordings of eXtension Professional Development Sessions", or search on the word Recordings.
SCHEDULE
Both Linda and John will both in Pullman all week next week.
Linda Kirk Fox, PhD
Dean and Director
Washington State University Extension
411 Hulbert Hall, PO Box 646248
Pullman, WA 99164-6248
509-335-2933 Office
509-335-9223 Desk/Voicemail
509-335-2926 FAX
lkfox@wsu.edu
ext.wsu.edu
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