When disaster strikes, people nearly always evacuate and return home with their smartphones. Learn how NDSU Ag Communication staff worked with an NDSU-student-led company to develop two
smartphone apps for Android and iOS. The Disaster Recovery Log lets users record damage with photos, text and audio and download the entries, and provides clean-up information. The Winter Survival Kit
helps stranded motorists monitor their fuel level, alerts them to clear the exhaust pipe to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning, pinpoints their location, notifies selected contacts and provides safety information.
Agricultural communication staff will share how they brainstormed how to take advantage of the phone’s interactive features, worked with the student developers and publicized the apps.
2. North Dakota flooding,
The National Guard,
available under a
Creative Commons
Attribution 2.0 license
ND National Guard
Flood Response, Dave
Haasser, available
under a Creative
Commons Attribution
2.0 license
3. Download H2O
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Helping to http://www.myriaddevices.com
Organize
for Android
4. Pictured:
Texting, Joi Ito,
available under
a Creative
Commons
Attribution 2.0
license
“Just because people may be able to view your
PC Website with a mobile device... doesn’t
mean it is a pleasant or fulfilling experience.”
- MobileThinking.com
5. (Pictured: "Please Pay Here 3-14-09 19", Steven
Depolo, available under a Creative Commons
Attribution 2.0 license)
6. Special Needs Grant
• Create 10 YouTube videos
• Conduct six Ready Business and Family
Preparedness train-the-trainer webinars
• Create EDEN’s Ready Business and
Family Preparedness courses in Moodle
• Instead of Moodle courses, disaster
recovery smartphone app
7. Disaster Recovery Log
• Helps people record
information about
damages to home
and property using
text, images and
audio
• Download from
Android market
• www.ag.ndsu.edu/
extension/apps
8. Add Disaster
• Title: June 24, 2011,
Souris River Flood
• Description: House
had 6 feet water on
main floor, back to
ground level July 20,
basement drained
Aug. 8-12
14. Winter Survival Kit
• Helps people help
you find their current
location, call 911 and
notify your friends and
family.
• Download from
Google Play & Apple
App Store
• www.ag.ndsu.edu/
extension/apps
15. Stranded
• Get your location
• Call 911
• Tell your family &
friends
• Alerts keep you
awake and aware of
risk of CO poisoning
17. Results
• Local press & media
• National press &
media
• Online news sites &
blogs
• Live shot on Weather
Channel
• Top 12 educational
app in App Store
20. Bob Bertsch Becky Koch
robert.bertsch@ndsu.edu becky.koch@ndsu.edu
Twitter - @ndbob Facebook – Becky Koch
Facebook – Bob Bertsch
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Editor's Notes
Becky: Original proposal--•Create 10 YouTube videos on priority topics determined by the EDEN Information Clearinghouse committee•Create EDEN’s Ready Business and Family Preparedness courses in Moodle, eXtension’s learning management system that allows people to learn independently online and receive a certificate of completion•Conduct six live train-the-trainer webinar sessions to help Extension educators and others be able to teach Ready Business and Family Preparedness in their communities and record the sessions for educators who can’t participate liveHowever, into the grant year, we saw the need for smartphone apps related to disaster preparedness and recovery, so we requested permission from Dennis Kopp to change from developing Moodle courses to developing a disaster recovery smartphone app. Family Preparedness available as narrated PPT; hope to get it interactive in Moodle.