Emerging Technologies and Trends - Applications
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Description: This technology trend explores the benefits of a regularly issued e-newsletter as an easy and cost-effective way to communicate with participants and potential sponsors. Their immediacy and interactivity also give them much more functionality than printed ones.
Extension 2.0: Harnessing the Power of the Blogosphere to Expand Programming Potential and Impact 
Author: Seger, ; Mark Light
Description: Research-based programming is seemingly losing its relevance in our technological world. Families and youth are now looking to blogs as a source of information; but blogs based upon reliable research-based information are lacking. This interactive session will teach the importance of blogging to expand programming potential. Leave with lots of materials including a CD of "how to blog" podcasts for beginners.
Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present
Author: Johansen, Bob
Description: Keynote presentation by Bob Johansen, Institute for the Future, at the 2009 National eXtension Conference speaks about the future, drawing heavily on concept in his latest books, Get There Early and Leaders Make the Future : Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World, to examine how technology and information will impact our future, and the external future forces that will affect the future of cooperative extension. (His actual presentation begins about 25 minutes into the Connect session.)
Global Faces and Networked Places
Author: Nielsen Online,
Description: This Nielson Report Highlights the following trends: 1. Putting the growth of social networks – popularity and
engagement – into context 2. How the audience to social networks is changing 3. The challenges facing
advertisers on social networks 4. What advertisers can do to find the magic formula for advertising in social networks 5. Factors contributing to the Facebook phenomenon 6. Why localization has won the day in many countries 7. Where mobile social networking has taken the greatest hold 8. What ‘traditional’ publishers
can do in the face of the social network phenomenon. While coming from a business / marketing perspective, it offers helpful ways for programs to think about marketing their program, as well as enhancing media literacy.
Online Grant Funding Databases
Description: This technology trend deals with the online databases that make it easy to search for potential sources of funding. Several of them are free; others require subscriptions that many CYFAR staff can access via their land-grant university.
Author: Nordby, Ann (21 more by this author)
Description: A new technology trend is the use of Real Simple Syndication, or RSS. RSS is a way of keeping up with headlines or other frequently changing information. Add an RSS feed to your browser's toolbar and you can easily check news without going to a specific Web site.
Screen Capture and Video Capture
Description: A new technology trend is the use of image and video capture tools to easily grab an image from the Internet to use as illustration for an instant messaging conversation, poster or other use. You can also easily create a video. It is so easy that care must be taken not to infringe copyright.
Author: Nordby, Ann (21 more by this author)
Description: Which Web sites are the most reliable? Which ones present the points of view I care about? With millions of sites, it's hard to know. Social bookmarking is a way of cutting through the clutter.
More than the "favorites" or "bookmarks" on one's Web browser, social bookmarking lets users tag pages for later reading or for sharing with others. Bookmarks can be public or private, allowing users to piggyback on other users' finds and implied recommendations.
Social Networks: the WHAT, WHY, & How to using them professionally
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: Social networking—it's social, creative, participatory and immediate, and more than high school pals and fan clubs. What is professional use? 80% of companies use social networking to find employees. Professionals use it to network, find experts, talk through ideas, search for jobs, and more! This workshop is hands-on exploration of sites and tools to give you strategies and skills for professional social networking. (Prep: Bring your eXtension ID; get one from people.extension.org)
Using Social Media At Conferences
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: The ever-present cell phone and Blackberry don't have to distract from your conference experience - they can enhance it! Learn to use mobile technologies to facilitate your interaction with presenters, share opinions of a session, and meet others with similar interests. This workshop will orient you to the opportunities at CYFAR—from Twitter feeds, Facebook, and mobile-optimized agendas to Pecha Kucha, Flash Mobs and Text (SMS) Polls. (Bring your mobile devices with you.)
Voice over Internet Protocol: VoIP
Description: VoIP is the technology that makes phone calling over the Internet possible. Providers such as Skype and Google Voice charge very little for calls to landlines and mobile phones. Calls to users of the same service can be free. VoIP also enables simultaneous file sharing and instant messaging.
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Amazingly Cheap Tech Tricks for Communication
Author: Terry, Roger; Jeanne Gleason
Description: Review of some of the best Web 2.0 tools that can be used to share information and communicate with individuals and groups you work with. Tools can be downloaded or used online at little or no cost.
– Professional Development –
Author: Singh, Vishal; Jeanne Gleason; Trudy Dunham
Description: Video is a powerful tool for education. The use of online video has increased dramatically and educators are successfully implementing it. It doesn't have to be difficult or expensive. From creating your own video to putting it online, this session will show you how.
Discovering Social Learning Potential through Social Media Models
Author: Jeannette, Karen ; Anne Adrian
Description: The purpose of this session is help participants understand how to use social media tools and participate in online networks to harness the power of networked social learning. We will discuss engagement models for educators and learners of emerging knowledge and solutions, interactivity for crafting conversations and weaving network participation, and tools for media sharing, micro-sharing, and content collaboration.
Don't Bother Me, Mom-I'm Learning
Author: Prensky, Marc
Description: Based on his recent book, Don't Bother Me Mom I'm Learning, Marc Prensky’s keynote talk at the 2007 CYFAR Conference presents the case-profoundly counter-cultural but true nevertheless-that video and computer game playing, within limits, is actually very beneficial to today’s 'Digital Native' kids, who are using the games to prepare themselves for life in the 21st century. According to Prensky, today’s youth are attracted to these games because they are learning important 'future' things, from collaboration, to prudent risk taking, to strategy formulation and execution, to complex moral and ethical decisions. Prensky’s arguments are backed up by university Ph.D.s studying not just game violence but games in their totality, as well as by gamers who have become successful corporate workers, entrepreneurs, leaders, doctors, lawyers, and scientists.
Description: This technology trend explores the benefits of a regularly issued e-newsletter as an easy and cost-effective way to communicate with participants and potential sponsors. Their immediacy and interactivity also give them much more functionality than printed ones.
Shaking Your Groove Thing: Video Games as Ways to Increase Physical Activity
Author: Chamberlin, Barbara (2 more by this author); Valentina Veleta; Michelle Garza; Jeanne Gleason
Description: Several programs are using "exergames", games that encourage physical activity as part of their programs for youth, adults and families. Program leaders will share their expertise; including what works, what doesn't work, and how exergames impact our audiences. Participants should be prepared to play some games, and will receive real-world suggestions for using exergames in their programming.
What Do Social Network Sites Have to Offer Youth Development?
Author: Greenhow, Christine (1 more by this author); Trudy Dunham
Description: Millions of youth spend time everyday learning, communicating and connecting in online social network sites such as MySpace or Facebook. Despite the media's mostly negative portrayal of youth activities in these spaces, social network sites can have positive and educational benefits. However, much of the research on this topic is still emerging or has taken place in fields other than education.
This 90-minute video presentation focuses on emerging research that looks in-depth at youth activities, perceptions, and experiences in online social network sites and considers their implications for the field of youth development/youth education. Emphasis is placed on youth activities and relationships in these online spaces.
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4-H Geospatial Programming Resources
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: This page supports all who work with geospatial programs in 4-H and CYFAR, with opportunities for program staff and members to interact with experts and each other, build skills, share program ideas, and develop their programs. Links to valuable curriculum and program resources are also provided.
Description: The National Science Foundation CS Bits & Bytes is a biweekly newsletter highlighting innovative computer science research. Aimed at high school teachers and students, it emphasizes how computer science permeates and improves our lives and supports progress in many other disciplines. CS Bits & Bytes issues include profiles of the individuals who do this exciting work and include links to interactive activities and videos. You can check out the archive at this site, and/or request the newsletter be emailed to you.
Author: Staker, Jay (11 more by this author); Trudy Dunham
Description: Overview of the Mission of the Month, how it meets national 4-H mandates, and demonstration of how to use the activities to build inquiry-based learning in your nonformal educational program.
Exergames: Using Videogames to Promote Physical Activity (Research Summary)
Author: Chamberlin, Barbara (2 more by this author)
Description: In this video presentation, Prof. Barbara Chamberlin reviews recent game trends, research on use and effectiveness, and provide details on a new CYFAR exergames initiative. (Research Presentation at 2008 CYFAR conference)
Microblogging with Presence Technologies: Go Tweet!
Author: Nordby, Ann (21 more by this author)
Description: This dynamic technology trend takes advantage of our skills in texting or SMS. Presence Technologies enable short messages across Internet and mobile phones to send status updates called "tweets". It is being used in a variety of ways. The most popular of these is Twitter.
Author: Black, Lynette (2 more by this author); Pamela Power; Esther Worker
Description: Overview of what GIS is, and why you should integrate it into you youth program (to build problem solving skills, career skills, and civic engagement). Also covers basic GIS tools that you can purchase and those available online.
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Description: This Journal contains articles pertaining to children's use of media and the impact on children's development. Examples include Media and Young Children's Learning; Media and Attention, Cognition, and School Achievement; Media and Children's Aggression, Fear, and Altruism. Includes nine chapters and an introduction.
Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites
Author: Lenhart, Amanda (3 more by this author); Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, Kristen Purcell, Kathryn Zickuhr, Lee Rainie
Description: Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost synonymous with being online. Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites. Many log on daily to their social network pages and these have become spaces where much of the social activity of teen life is echoed and amplified—in both good and bad ways.