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October 3, 2008
Topics in today's issue of Extension Update:
OCTOBER "EXTENSION ENGAGED" TO UNVEIL NEW EXTENSION "BRAND IDENTITY TOOLKIT"
On the October edition of "Extension Engaged," we'll get a first look at the training modules that have just been completed to help you use the WSU Extension Brand Identity Toolkit elements, such as the logo templates, help you to take photographs that tell your story, and demonstrate how to talk about your Extension program's outcomes and impacts using the appropriate brand marketing language. Guests on the program include Kathy Barnard, director of Marketing and News Services for WSU Extension and CAHNRS, Gerald Steffen, Brand Manager for WSU Extension and Jim Lindstrom, Director of Professional Development for WSU Extension.
The program takes place on Friday, October 17, from 10-11 am in room
T-101 of the Food Science and Human Nutrition building. Pullman faculty and staff are invited to be a part of the live audience by coming to
T-101 and taking their seats by 9:45 and turning off their cell phones.
Those located outside of Pullman can watch the program via a live videostream by going to:
http://eces.wsu.edu/video/stream.html, scrolling down to the title and clicking on either "View with RealPlayer" or "View with WindowsMedia"
For further information, contact Scott V. Fedale at: fedale@wsu.edu or via phone at 509-335-2952.
REMINDER - LEAD21 APPLICATIONS ARE DUE OCT 16TH
LEAD21 is a program initiated in 2005 that combines the former NELD, ESCOP/ACOP programs for leadership training for Research, Teaching and Extension faculty, educators and administrators. The program provides an excellent opportunity to develop leadership skills and develop a comprehensive understanding of the land-grant system.
A copy of the internal LEAD21 application form can be accessed on the WSU Extension Professional Development web site located at http://ext.wsu.edu/pd/. Additional information regarding the program can be found at http://www.fanning.uga.edu/programs/LEAD21/index.html. In addition to completing the LEAD21 application, please answer the following question:
1. What would be the benefit to CAHNRS and/or WSU Extension by your
participation in the program? This information can be included in a cover memo.
Previous participants include Christi Price, Brad Gaolach, Doreen Hauser-Lindstrom, Randy Baldree. Dale Moore is a member of the current cohort. If you have questions regarding the value of LEAD21, please feel free to contact any of them.
All pre-applications for the LEAD21 program are due to the office of Extension Associate Vice President and Director or email to extension@wsu.edu no later than 5 p.m., Thursday, October 16th, 2008.
The pre-applications will be reviewed and a selection will be made to meet the national deadline of November 15th, 2008. The cost of participating in LEAD21 is funded by CAHNRS and WSU Extension administration.
TWO NEW WSU AWARDS PROGRAMS
The Global Scholar Awards provides faculty members with the opportunity to conduct research on international topics and issues for a semester per year for two consecutive years. Washington State University seeks faculty members who are globally oriented in their teaching, research, and service. As a result, the University offers development opportunities for faculty members to reexamine and reorient teaching and research in the direction of global themes. The Global Scholar Awards provide such an opportunity for tenured faculty members, with established records of research and teaching, to consider their research and teaching in relation to significant globalizing trends. Faculty member who have not previously carried out research on international issues are encouraged to apply. Details are available on the Provost Awards web site http://provost.wsu.edu/awards_program/
The Cougar Gold Scholar Award program gives leading scholars the opportunity for extended and concentrated scholarly work of the highest quality. Cougar Gold Scholar applicants typically must be associate professors. Full professors within three years of their promotion to that rank may be considered in exceptional circumstances. Recipients of a Cougar Gold Scholar Award will be released from half of the usual obligations of teaching, advising, service and, if applicable, administration for three consecutive academic (i.e., 9-month) years.
Details are available on the Provost Awards web site http://provost.wsu.edu/awards_program/
Cougar Gold and Global Scholar Award applications are DUE in the Provost Office Friday, October 31st.
PROFESSIONAL LEAVE AND RETRAINING LEAVE GUIDELINES
Guidelines have been distributed to department chairs and district directors for the WSU professional and retraining leave programs for 2009-10. Details are available at the Provost web site under forms and
applications: http://provost.wsu.edu/manuals-forms. All applications are to be approved by chairs and deans and forwarded to the Provost's Office. Applications are due in the Dean's office of WSU Extension for county and area faculty by January 5, 2009. Allow time for review and approval by supervisors.
This year, these instructions have been modified to provide a more detailed description of the required application and the required report on activities undertaken during the leave. Applicants must provide a curriculum vitae that, at a minimum, contains information about progress since the last professional leave, if any. In addition, all requests for leaves must now be accompanied by an effort to secure external funding.
Therefore, applicants must provide a list of external agencies from which funding will be sought.
OCTOBER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH eXtension
eXtension Update is a monthly update of the activities and training opportunities that is brought to you through eXtension. You can receive this update delivered directly to your email if you have your own eXtension ID.
REMINDER: GET YOUR eXtension ID NOW!
As of October 2, 2008, more than 50 percent of all approximately 15,000 Cooperative Extension Service professionals had eXtension IDs.
Washington State University has 150 members of eXtension. Do you have your id yet? If not please get your id now!
One of the first steps to being fully engaged with the eXtension initiative is to create this eXtension ID. By doing so you'll be allowed to work in the eXtension collaborative space, you can become a member of one of 26 Communities of Practice, and you'll be registered to receive routine email updates on the initiative.
If you don't have your ID yet, it's a simple process! Just go to http://people.extension.org and you'll be taken to the registration page.
While there are several Professional Development opportunities that are available through eXtension in October, listed below are a few that are relevant WSU Extension. For a complete list, get your eXtension ID and check out the system!
eXtension's professional development opportunities are open to all Extension faculty, staff and employees. No pre-registration.
eXtension Professional Development Sessions will be held at our Web Conferencing Center at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn and through your telephone. Plan to join the session five minutes before the starting time. Each session will be held at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time unless otherwise noted.
* October 9 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, a 30-Minute Session on the new Ask eXtension Widget, by Aaron Hundley, eXtension Software Engineer. How to use the new Ask eXtension widget to receive and answer questions directly from your county Extension web site or Extension-related blog.
This widget adds question-asking capabilities to your site, but uses the power of the eXtension Ask an Expert and FAQ systems to assist you in answering. Take questions from your clients, and use the 40,000 questions in the FAQ system to assist you in providing a timely and accurate answer. Check out the new widget-tracking feature that allows you to name the widget and monitor questions coming from your site. Also learn about the new widget routing capability that will allow you to have questions routed to you from your widgets. This session will introduce you to the new tool, show you the latest features developed, and will discuss what is necessary to begin using it immediately in your own county sites and blogs with helpful tips.
* October 23 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, a 30-Minute Session on
InstantSurvey:
Results and Reports (Session 3), by Michael Lambur, eXtension Evaluation and Research Leader. This 30-minute professional development session will focus on accessing results and generating reports of online surveys using the InstantSurvey web-based application available to eXtension CoPs. This session will be useful to Extension Professionals considering a web-based survey application, like InstantSurvey.
* October 30 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, a 30-Minute Session on Finding Extension Resources Through the Google Custom Search Engine (Google CSE), by Kevin Gamble, Associate Director of eXtension. This session demonstrate how to use search.extension.org to search the vast resources of the Cooperative Extension System. In addition, we 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.
* October 7, 12:00 p.m.-12:45 p.m. PT, Question Wrangler Meet-Up. Want to help people find answers to their questions? Work with your Extension colleagues from across the country? Help to serve Extension clientele in a new and exciting way? Then maybe you'd like to become an eXtension Question Wrangler. We have new opportunities for our public to ask questions through our new "Ask an Expert" system, but in order to ramp-up this effort we're needing a few good people to volunteer to help make this a reality. If you think this is something you'd like to do please join us to talk about how we can handle this together. (For all who have signed up as Question Wranglers... see the article, "Become an eXtension Question Wrangler")
* October 8, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Peer Review. Presented by: Bob Sams, University of California, Davis. In this presentation, Bob Sams will discuss two major issues related to peer review. The first is the topic of online peer review management systems. The second is whether and why extension publications, media, web content, or other information for end users should be peer reviewed. Part of that topic must be to ask what peer review in our context means and what current practices are within our community. Finally, who cares and so what?
* October 22, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, "Top 10 Tech Tools for Extension Agents" by Dave Palmer, District Instructional Media Agent, University of Florida. Many great opportunities currently exist for Extension Agents to use the Web to reduce their workload, increase productivity, disseminate information, and even offer online learning modules. A high workload, lack of time to research the possibilities, and the simple lack of awareness of the existing tools prevents many agents from exploring the possibilities. This presentation is intended to give Extension agents and educators a jump-start by introducing 10 Web-related tech tools.
TO PARTICIPATE in any of the sessions held in our Web Conferencing
Center:
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 callback 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.
PERSONNEL
Doug Stienbarger, WSU Clark County Extension Director, was recently recognized as team member that won the multi-state CSREES Partnership Award. This award is in recognition of the "Living on the Land'" national impact on empowering small acreage farmers to be responsible stewards of the land. Doug shares the award with fourteen team members throughout the west. The award nomination was submitted to CSREES through University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.
Congratulations, Doug and your team mates!
New Hires:
Stuart Taylor, Animal Care Facility Manager, Animal Sciences, WSU Prosser, Effective November 1, 2008, 50% Extension, 50% ARC, AP
Ralph Young, Coordinator, Native American Outreach, Westside, with office location in Thurston County Extension Effective September 19, 2008, 75% Provost's office of Tribal Liaison, 25% Extension, AP
Status Changes:
Karen Dickson, Extension Coordinator Sr., FSNEP, Spokane Effective October 1, 2008, 100% Extension Grant, AP
Steve Jones, Director, NW Mount Vernon Research and Extension Center, Effective April 1, 2009, 50% Extension, 50% ARC
SCHEDULE
Linda will be in Seattle on Thursday attending the WSU Innovators Series presentation and meetings at King County Extension. She will be in Pullman the rest of the week.
John will be in Pullman all week.
Linda Kirk Fox, PhD
Associate Vice President and Dean
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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