NETC08 session 1080

2008-04-01T23:22:04Z

Session Name: Looking Back to the Future
Session Number: 1080
Location: Hope
Day and Time: Tuesday, 9:30 - 10:15 am
Format: Panel
Topic: eLearning / Distance Education
Level: Introductory

Session Abstract:

The CYFERnet Technology Management Team has advocated using technology tools to collaborate for more than ten years. We have been especially interested in two things:

Facilitating multi-state at-risk youth programs where the objective was to introduce youth to new technologies or to get the adult youth workers to use the technology tools for communication and other processes
Facilitating the creation and management of relevant information and resources by Extension faculty to make it more accessible and useful to these youth and family programs.

We envision, we plan, we implement, and then what? Did those great ideas pan out? Morph into something else? Fail miserably? Succeed beyond our wildest expectations? Looking back at the technology innovations we tried, some succeeded while others did not. What good practices and strategies actually worked? What innovations were adopted and institutionalized. From laptops, online communities, metatags to Web 2.0 technologies, a look back at our history is illustrative of the cyclic nature of implementing new technologies. What lessons did we learn? Is it intuition, sound reasoning or educated guessing that moves us to recommend and try innovative technologies? We'll look at recommendations on how to improve our adoption curve and lessons learned in the evolution and adoption of new technologies. Come join the discussion and share your thoughts and experiences.

Led By: Trudy Dunham, , University of Minnesota Extension
Kevin Gamble, National eXtension Initiative; Ray Kimsey, NC State University; Ron Roeber, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Bob Rubinyi, University of Minnesota; Roger Terry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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