• The 2013 Nebraska eXtension Report may be found at http://bit.ly/1jrvU1S. It contains interesting information regarding the use of Ask an Expert in terms of questions asked, questions answered by in-state and out-of-state experts, and more. Currently, Nebraska is represented by 281 eXtension members in 55 of the 76 approved Communities of Practice. Rather impressive numbers when you think about it.
• The National eXtension Conference was held in Sacramento, CA, March 24-27. Over 300 people attended the conference in person while an additional 500 people watched live video streams of various sessions. The keynotes provided lots to inspire you to think differently about how we work in Extension. Links to the recordings of the Keynote sessions are at the eXtension YouTube Channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/eXtensionInitiative. "The Connected Organization," by Dave Gray, "The Next Generation of Learning Practices in the Age of Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration," by Jane Hart and "Taking the Success of a Learning Network to the Next Level," by Betsy Graham." The recorded concurrent sessions will be converted and also moved to YouTube this month. For now, you may find the links to the concurrent sessions in either Learn (https://learn.extension.org/events/tag/nexconf) or in Lanyrd (http://lanyrd.com/2014/nexconf/schedule). To keep track of your professional development activity in Learn, sign in and click the Attended or Watched box for each event you participate in so that this list can be kept up-to-date for you.
• Other selected topics available through eXtension at Learn (https://learn.extension.org/) in April include:
April -- Trauma in Young Children Under 4-Years of Age: Attachment, Neurobiology, and Interventions, https://learn.extension.org/events/1416
April 4 -- All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series: Get TickSmart: 10 Things to Know, 5 Things to Do, https://learn.extension.org/events/1381
April 10 -- Smart Choice Health Insurance, https://learn.extension.org/events/1435
April 10 -- Composting for poultry, https://learn.extension.org/events/1433
April 10 -- Webinar: Wildlife Control Training for Master Gardeners, https://learn.extension.org/events/1568
April 15 -- Military Home Buying and Selling, https://learn.extension.org/events/1501
April 25 -- Master Equine Manager Certificate, https://learn.extension.org/events/1436
Popular topics from March...
Engaging the next Generation of Extension Leaders, Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1465
Using Lanyrd for National eXtension Conference, Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1460
Evaluation CoP Membership Meeting, Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1553
Tax Planning Updates for Military Families, Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1440
Common Consumer Frauds & How to Avoid Them, Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1500
All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series: Straight Talk About Termites, Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1371
Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Science for Young Children, Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1451
Incorporating Video into the Marketing Strategy, Watch the recording and Add your thoughts at https://learn.extension.org/events/1396
Additional eXtension programs in 2014:
April 1 -- Institutional Team Web Conference - April 2014
April 2 -- Fertigation: Scheduling and Water Quality Considerations
April 3 -- The Role of Wholesale Grocers in Rural Food Distribution...
April 3 -- High rate renewable energy production with the Static Granular Bed Reactor (SGBR)
April 3 -- Trauma in Young Children Under 4-Years of Age: Attachment, Neurobiology, and Interventions
April 4 -- All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series: Get TickSmart: 10 Things to Know, 5 Things to Do
April 7 -- Milking System Design and Analysis
April 8 -- NEWBio - Northeast Bioenergy Webinar Series
April 8 -- Putting the Pieces Together: Lessons Learned from a Reduced-Tillage Organic Cropping Systems Project
April 8 -- USDA Energy Programs - An E3A & “Technical Short”
April 9 -- 2014 MSU Faculty Research Series - Third City: The Other Dimension
April 10 -- Preparing Caregivers to Communicate Effectively Using Three Types of Communication Skills
April 10 -- Smart Choice Health Insurance
April 10 -- Webinar: Wildlife Control Training for Master Gardeners
April 10 -- Composting for poultry
April 11 -- Carbon Cycle Institute Presents: Scientific Overview of Agricultural Carbon Research & the Implications for Climate
April 15 -- Military Home Buying and Selling
April 16 -- Extension Behavior Change: Measuring Outcomes of Landscape Site Visits and Individual Teachings
April 16 -- Community Gardens
April 22 -- Responding to an S.O.S. from the Commercial Beekeeping Industry
April 22 -- Responding to an S.O.S. from the Commercial Beekeeping Industry
April 23 -- Spray Foam Insulation and Building Science Webinar
April 24 -- Novel Communication Tools: Using Text4Baby & Just In Time Parenting to Meet the Needs of Parents
April 25 -- Master Equine Manager Certificate
April 25 -- Building Rural Resiliency: Who Should Help? What Should They Do?
May 1 -- Application of Genomics to Strawberry Breeding
May 1 -- Application of Genomics to Strawberry Breeding Webinar
May 2, All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series: Are Those Itsy Bitsy Spiders Good or Bad?
May 6 -- Institutional Team Web Conference - May 2014
May 13 -- 20 Steps to 7 Figures
May 21 -- Community Gardens
May 29 -- Fathers, Work & Family Life
May 29 -- Pasture egg production: Ameraucanas versus Delawares
May 30 -- Survive or Struggle: Your Choice in a Business Disaster
June 3 -- Mental Health & Financial Management
June 3 -- Institutional Team Web Conference - June 2014
June 4 -- Heuristics, Anchoring, Narrowing Choice
June 5 -- The Culture of Personal Finance
June 5 -- What Young Adults Need to Know About Money
June 6 -- All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar Series: Fire Ant Management
June 9 -- Lighting for small and backyard layer flocks
June 27 -- NFIP and Floods
July 1 -- Institutional Team Web Conference - July 2014
July 10 -- Normal poultry behavior and dealing with behavioral problems in small and backyard flocks
Contact Beth Raney at beth.raney@extension.org. If you have web-based events for which you would like more participation, please add them at Learn.extension.org for others to join in.
-- Dan Cotton