My thanks to so many of you for attending the Successfully Marketing Extension Program Using Online Technologies presentation at the NEAFCS 09 Conference in Birmingham, Alabama. Here are several of the links I used in the NEAFCS presentation:
Digital Immigrant video on YouTube
Teacher Tube - awesome link with good educational videos
Blogger - for making a quick & easy blog
PB Works – easy to create wikis here
Audacity – free download for creating a podcast
Linked In – free networking
Facebook – be sure to select security settings that you are comfortable with
Ellen Swallow Richards – Joyce Miles blog about Ellen Swallow Richards
Smitten Kitchen – great recipe reviews
Rutgers-Atlantic – our Atlantic County NJ website. Click on the FCHS link.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension – our Extension website. Click on the Food, Nutrition, Health & Wellness link on the left
Get Moving Get Healthy New Jersey - our FCHS initiative website, great virtual walk program!
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Then and now
Technology amazes me. When you really stop to think about it we use technology throughout our day. We start with technology first thing in the morning and continue to use it until the day is done. Can you even image life without a computer? It seems so long ago and distant as I sit here and ponder my own question. I can speak of my personal experiences and remember the changes I felt as a classroom teacher when I could use the home computer to create and print hand-outs for my students without resorting to the mimeograph machine (it created strange blue colored print and had a nasty odor).
Life became so much easier for me with the computer. I remember struggling to create a spreadsheet program that could calculate student grades, and then a few years later, we had grading programs that made life easier once again. The first PC computers used in the classroom were monsters....large, slow, and totally confusing to a Mac user. Did it actually become easier when the Apple IIe came along? They were difficult to use too. We have come a long way baby!
Now we feel frustration when a computer task takes a fraction of a second to complete a command, and when we can't 'get online' in any given minute. Life has changed in many ways since the advent of the home computer....for the better and perhaps for the worse. Overall, we have become faster and more productive workers. That is, until the power goes off!
Life became so much easier for me with the computer. I remember struggling to create a spreadsheet program that could calculate student grades, and then a few years later, we had grading programs that made life easier once again. The first PC computers used in the classroom were monsters....large, slow, and totally confusing to a Mac user. Did it actually become easier when the Apple IIe came along? They were difficult to use too. We have come a long way baby!
Now we feel frustration when a computer task takes a fraction of a second to complete a command, and when we can't 'get online' in any given minute. Life has changed in many ways since the advent of the home computer....for the better and perhaps for the worse. Overall, we have become faster and more productive workers. That is, until the power goes off!
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