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The Horizon Report, Inside and Out

June 5, 12 CT

Summary
Planning for emerging technologies is an important part of much of
the work we do supporting IT in higher education. The Horizon Report
can assist with this effort, as it identifies "emerging technologies
likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative
expression within learning-focused institutions." Join us for an
interactive session as we explore how this annual publication, a
joint undertaking of the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE
Learning Initiative, is produced and structured. We will also examine
the community resources available through the Horizon 

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Peter says: Feeds really are everywhere and understanding how to use
them in a tool like Google Reader can be very useful.

eXtension "30 Minute Session: Using Feeds" tomorrow (May 22).

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
 

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All day at the Weisman.

Free.

http://www.inms.umn.edu/pages/view.asp?id=22

Happy hour 4-6 at Campus Club.

If you don't have a gmail account yet, this may be the reason to get
one.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

Extension Educator Kevin Gamble has produced a machinima (Second Life
movie) on the Fire Ant maze on Morrill Island. Playback is via Youtube.

http://blog.k1v1n.com/2008/03/my-first-machinima.html

The latest Extension Weekly talks about Flickr with links to an
article by Beth Kanter.
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page8291.cfm?rss=1

Eli Sagor shared the info and linked to his Flickr site.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/esagor/469254012/

There is also another example which shows some of Flickr's features.
http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265279980/

I'll share my site with you too.
http://flickr.com/pfhyper

I have been considering starting a Flickr account for Family
Development. I have some photos from our Arboretum event that I can
toss up there. Photos and sets can be made accessible by "friends "
only if we don't want share it all. 

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Presenting Scenarios and Telling Stories with Online Video

http://dmc.umn.edu/spotlight/online-video.shtml

You can participate via UMConnect.

I just attended an excellent seminar at the Educause Learning
Initiative site: Virtual Worlds as a Tool for Situational Learning.
(They mentioned Lave and Wenger, Karen.) This seminar will be
archived and available and if you are at all interested in how Second
Life (and virtual worlds in general) can be used for teaching, I
recommend it. 

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Esther Grassian at UCLA Libraries has a great tip sheet for Second
Life. I learned some things and she explains clearly how to get to
Second Life.

http://www.cla-net.org/included/docs/Tips_for_newbies.pdf

Can someone direct me to where I can learn how to develop a power point presentation to show in Second Life?

Thanks, Connie

Nutricia Beaumont in SL

Connie Burns, MS RD

Regional Extension Educator, Health and Nutrition

Extension Regional Center, Morris

WC Research/Outreach Center

46352 State Hwy 329

Morris, MN 56267

This week was the Networks & Neighborhoods in CyberSpace Symposium at
Walter Library. There was an excellent turnout (partly because you
had to go to apply for the grant money). The discussion and the
projects were also excellent.

Here are a few related links of interest:

Main site for the symposium:
http://www.networksincyberspace.org/

Symposium Blog. Very interesting because they allowed anyone to
register and blog. There are some good discussions here.
http://www.networksincyberspace.org/blog/ 

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If anyone wants to explore Second Life, let me know. You can also
take advantage of Avatar Express with Thynka Little:

Starting week of 1-14-08, the Cooperative Extension "Avatar Express"
help desk on Eduisland in Second Life will be open on a regular basis
for Second Life orientation. Relaxed format...coffee
available...bring your new avatar and your questions. 

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Here is information on the Second Life Virtual State Fair to
Celebrate eXtension Launch.

http://tinyurl.com/2mjyvx

And here is information on the Launch in Real Life.

http://tinyurl.com/2cb7y2

I have a blog post at my LCG blog about collaboration tools that are
supported by the U of MN.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/fleck004/lcg/2008/01/test_entry.html

Hi Everyone,

I took a picture.

http://img.skitch.com/20080201-fnhqukbqhirkukbct13c61u6mn.jpg

Peter

Good morning everyone.

I am hoping to spend some time in Second Life today and go to the
Science Friday site. They have a Second Life show that complements
the NPR broadcast. It's at 1 p.m. CST (11 a.m. SLT - Second Life
Time). This is the Science Friday Second Life link:

http://tinyurl.com/2b9bku

You have to have SL installed. (secondlife.com) 

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This is getting good reviews. You can watch the show online.

Is there fodder here for us?

Frontline: Growing up Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

Bonus link.

Danah Boyd is interviewed in the Frontline show. She has done some of
the best research on social networks in the teen space. Her blog is
here:

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

This just in...

Subject: MN Futures Grant Symposium, 2-11-08, 8:30-4:00
Date: January 24, 2008 11:16:10 AM CST
To: DTC Mailing List:;

Greetings!

Introducing a new MN Futures Grant Symposium sponsored by OVPR with
support from the Digital Technology Center, College of Education and
Human Development, Digital Media Center, ADCS-OIT, Institute for
Advanced Studies, and the College of Liberal Arts. Please pass along
the following event information to any of your faculty, staff or
graduate students that might be interested. 

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This looks pretty interesting.

Jan 30, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. CT

http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/

Join us at 2:00 p.m. ET on January 30 to learn how organizations are
using prediction markets to chart their strategic future.

Adam Siegel, co-founder of Inkling Markets (http://
inklingmarkets.com/) will share how prediction markets are being used
to forecast the answers by buying and selling shares in stocks
representing alternative outcomes. Using a stock market-like
mechanism allows people to express their opinion as a "weighted vote"
over time in response to new information or a change of opinion.
Unlike a poll, a prediction market is asking 

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eXtension 2:00p CT tomorrow (1/24)

http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/learn

It seems like everywhere you go on the Internet today someone is
asking you to tag things. This session will discuss the philosophy
behind the tagging and compare it to the older methods of taxonomies
and controlled vocabularies, how and why it works, strategies to help
you tag more effectively, and the power of collaborative tagging.
This session is targeted for people just getting started with social
networking software, and is designed to get you off to a good start,
and to help you avoid the most common pitfalls. (For all Extension) 

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It's right now!

It will be recorded too. It's interesting and useful technology tip.

Sorry for the late notice but I've been busy!

This session 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. It will also show you the Cooperative
Extension CSE, teach you how to place a custom widget on your own
site, and show how you can participate in a collaborative environment
to further customize and make it better. (For all Extension) 

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Good morning.

At US News & World Reports: "Selling in a Post-Meatball Era: The
quest for 'social objects' that create their own Web buzz"

Invterview with Seth Godin on marketing on the Internet. He makes
some excellent points about getting people to talk about your product
(whether razors or workshops or curriculum). How do we create the
social object? 

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Hi Folks,

Cooperative Extension holds meet-ups twice a month in Second Life.
It's for all levels of experience and everyone is very helpful. If
you're interested in trying this out, go to http://secondlife.com/,
do some reading, and join. Once you get to Second Life, you will want
to finish all the tutorials on Help Island. It's probably too late to
get to Friday's meet-up but there is another one on Jan. 25. 

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30 Minute Session: eXtension’s Collaborate Wiki: Your place to work

This session will show you what you need to do to get started working
in the Collaborate wiki and show you some examples of how others are
using it today. (For all Extension)

Plan to join us on January 8 for this online professional development
opportunity presented by Kevin Gamble, associate director for eXtension. 

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Folks,

I urge you all to get a Facebook profile and join the Cooperative
Extension group where you can network with colleagues around the US.

facebook.com

Let me know if you need any help. Seek me out as a friend once you're
there. (Ellie McCann too!)

Who else is already there?

from eXtension

This session will show you what you need to do to get started working
in the Collaborate wiki and show you some examples of how others are
using it today. (For all Extension)

Plan to join us on January 8 for this online professional development
opportunity presented by Kevin Gamble, associate director for eXtension. 

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Excellent animation piece by Alan Becker.

http://tinyurl.com/3c4ja6

Enjoy and have a nice weekend.

From Mike Schmidt's email in case you all didn't see it:

Extension administration has made the decision to invest in a
relatively new technology system called TurningPoint response
systems. I urge you to visit their website (http://
www.turningtechnologies.com/) to learn much more about the
technology. I mention this to you because we believe this technology
needs to be accessible to all program teams throughout the state.
Thus, as we do with other equipment, we will be equiping each
Regional Center with a system for program team use. (We will also
have two systems in Coffey Hall.) TurningPoint presentation hardware
and 

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Thursday at 3, Feeding Frenzy, eXtension on RSS feeds.

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 

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I just added a blog post about the new Google street view.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/fleck004/fdxtech/2007/12/
google_brings_us_the_streets.html

Here are keynote addresses from the Annual Conference on Distance
Teaching and Learning held in Madison this past summer. I think Mark
Milliron's is my favorite.

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/
keynote_resources.cfm

Don't forget to think about map strategies (download the file) (I'll
post more about that later today) and think about topics for Wednesday.

All the links are here:

https://wiki.umn.edu/view/ExtFD_Tech/HandOut

Plus new stuff at the blog:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/fleck004/fdxtech/

Those of you new to the list may want to check the list archives.

http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=FD-XTECH

Anne Adrian at Alabama Cooperative Extension blogs at Anne's Spot.

http://blog.aafromaa.com/

(In 1995, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System was formally
created, including Alabama A&M University and Auburn University, with
Tuskegee University cooperating.)

Being in leadership courses at the Humphrey Institute, I found this
post inspiring.

http://blog.aafromaa.com/2007/11/challenging-process-is-must-to-
move.html

Make sure to watch the video. It's mind-blowing.

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Stay tuned for my cancelled tech visioning presentation in Breeze
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