This is the PowerPoint used by presenters for the January 2013 Institutional Team Web Conference.

1. Institutional Team Web
Conference
January 8, 2013

2. Agenda
• Happy New Year
• 15-Minute Strategy
• Ask an Expert 2.0
• State & Institutional Reports
• Immersive Learning
• Around the Country
• LEARN Highlights
• 15-Minute Strategy
• Action Steps
• Next Meeting: February 5, 2013

4. For 2013
• The redesign of • State and local value
eXtension.org enhancement
• eXtension evaluation • Partnerships and funding
• How eXtension enhances • Accountability and
the Cooperative transparency
Extension brand • Military families
• Virtual worlds and mobile programming
applications • Professional
• Learning networks development programs
• New educational models • Adoption and use of new
and delivery systems and innovative
technologies

5. 15-Minute Strategy
Jerry Thomas
jthomas@extension.org
419.306.9400

6. 15-Minute Purpose
• Introduce a specific tool or topic that your
Institutional Team can teach or use.
• Provide materials to help you teach it in 20-
30 minutes.

7. Today: Evernote
• Notes and slides will be at:
http://create.extension.org/node/94522

8. Evernote Introduction
Name and contact information

9. What is Evernote?
• Cloud tool that allows the capture of notes,
pictures, documents, etc.
• Can be viewed on any internet device
(laptop, tablet, smartphone).
• Free and premium service

10. Key parts of Evernote
• Notes - individual notes for any topic
• Tags - descriptors for any note. Can be
multiple tags for each note. Good for future
searches.
• Notebooks - individual folder that can hold
multiple notes. Similar to a folder in email,
etc.

11. Evernote accessibility
• Can view as a website
• Can download apps for iOS, Windows,
Android, and tablets

12. Evernote demonstration
• Going live to demo

13. Uses of Evernote
• Any list
• Project planning
• Trip planning
• Document scanning
• Note taking at meetings, especially on
mobile devices
• Scanning receipts or other items

14. More information?
• Stan Skrabut has several upcoming Learn
sessions: https://learn.extension.org/events/
865
• Stan's past recording:
https://learn.extension.org/events/137
• Stan's learning guide:
http://www.wyomingextension.org/wiki/index.php5
Learning_Guide:Evernote

15. More information?
• Slideshare slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/m3mo/evernote-
13021295
• 12-minute video:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/an-introdu
video.html
• 7-minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
7iUl95SR2NY

16. Ask an Expert
http://ask.extension.org

17. Launched – December 3
• ask.extension.org
• “Public” questions coming in
• Need more Question Wranglers
and Experts

18. Importance of Public Answers
• Quality of answer
• Search – discoverable answers
• KOD – duplicate content
• The currency of links
• Ask an Expert and Search: What you
need to know” on Jan. 29

19. Complete Your Public Profile
• About me
• Photo/Avatar
• Locations
• Tags
https://ask.extension.org/expert/settings/
profile

20. Try It!
• https://ask.extension.org/
• Post in About eXtension blog
• Get Help!
– http://about.extension.org/ask/

21. State & Institutional Reports
• Updated Annually usually by the end of
January
• Semi-annual reports can be completed on
request
• Find them here:
http://create.extension.org/eXtension_State_an
d_Institutional_Reports
• Also lots of useful data at data.extension.org
and
http://www.extension.org/people/numbers/brow
secommunities

22. Around the Country

23. SLVE & Network Lit Immersive
Learning Online Program
A great opportunity to learn about eXtension
and develop online networking skills.
Facilitators:
•Steve Judd: stephen.judd@unh.edu
•Jerry Thomas: jthomas@extension.org
http://go.osu.edu/immersive

24. When?
• January - February 2013
– Friday, 1/11/13 – Google+ Intro webinar—Open to
anyone
– Monday, 1/14/13 – Immersive Learning Launch
webinar
– Wrap up first full week of February
• Four weeks of directed training with flexibility
for scheduling group work

25. LEARN Highlights
http://learn.extension.org

26. Upcoming: Most ‘Followed’
• Essential Graphics/Design Concepts for
Non-Designers
– January 15 by ACE
• Top 10 Trends and Cool Tools in Social
Media
– February 14 by Entrepreneurs & Their
Communities CoP

27. Dec. 2012: Most ‘Connections’
• Social Networking: Navigating the Privacy
Setting Maze, December11, Network Literacy
CoP
• Financial Frauds & Scams, December 18,
Military Families Personal Finance
Recordings are available to watch.
• Click “Watched” and also “Add your
thoughts…” as appropriate

28. Upcoming: January
• Conflict and the Culture of Avoidance in the
Workplace
• Get Action from Website Landing Pages
• Google+ Quickstart
• Potential & Pitfalls for Genomic Selection
• eXtension Overview - Immersive Learning
Launch
• Essential Graphics/Design Concepts for
Non-Designers

29. Upcoming: January
• Winter care of small and backyard flocks
• Mobile Usage and Payment Technology
• Question Wranglers’ Meetup
• Coping or Vice? Review of Cribbing,
Weaving & Other Stereotypic Behaviors in
Horses
• Factoring Sustainable Agriculture into the
Food vs. Fuel Debate
• Handling Difficult Conversations

30. Upcoming: January
• Building Trust with Latino Audiences
• Introduction to Linkedin & Pinterest
• Manure Application Risk Management
Tools and Advisory Systems
• Ask an Expert and Search: What you need
to know
• Maps & Apps, Mobile and Location-based
Marketing

31. Next Institutional Team
Web Conference
February 5, 2013
2:30 EASTERN

32. Action Steps
• Check out Ask an Expert 2.0
– Update your profile
– Recruit Question Wranglers
• Volunteer for a 15-Minute Strategy!
• Let us know about Information Broker interest
• Share: LEARN Professional Development
email with all staff
• Pick an UPDATE article to share with your
Director/Administrator
• Scout out success stories!

33. 2013 Institutional Team Web
Conference Dates
• July 2
• August 6
• September 3
• October 1
• November 5
• December 3