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eXtension Update
As many of you know, a national effort
is under way to develop the national eXtension website. There has
been a call for faculty to submit FAQs to this system. When we met in
April, I shared with you that we had been in contact with eXtension
faculty and had decided to directly download our MissouriFamilies FAQs
to this system. Thus, alleviating you, the individual specialist,
from this task. We did do that direct download, however, our files
did not match their database . . . SO I have recently hired a young
man to do data entry for us.
In just a few short hours, he has
completed the HDFS-related FAQs and the Housing FAQs. This does
include the areas of aging, relationships, parenting, child care, and
developmental disabilities as well as all facets of housing. He is
now preparing to move ahead with the Consumer, Financial Planning, and
Textiles questions. He will complete the project with the Nutrition
and Food Safety questions. We chose this order due to the current
Communities of Practice that are available. He is doing a great job
and I am so happy to have all of your work being posted nationally.
Right now they are being reviewed and
edited as COPs are forming. I will give you a follow-up at our
December 5-7 meeting. I will try to have a web link so we can
demonstrate this new site. By then, I hope we are beginning to see
the Nutrition and Food Safety questions being entered.
On the Road Again . . .
I am writing this update from the
NASULGC meeting in Houston. I fly home tomorrow and then head out to
visit regional specialists the remainder of the week. I shared in my
last update my recent meeting schedule and shared that I was hoping to
send out some early 2007 dates to make more visits. I am including
these below. I do not have to travel all of these days, but am
holding them for possible travel. Please let me know if you would
like me to visit a program or just to come by and visit with you. I
am open for either. If I don't get invitations, I may just surprise
you and pop in! (No, I would call first!)
January 5
January 8
January 10--Tentative
January 11
January 23
January 25
January 30
February 6
February 8--Visiting Food Power Young
Adventure in Warrensburg
February 13
February 15
February 16
February 27
February 28
March 15
March 16
March 19
March 20
April & May--No travel dates, due to
other meetings and performance evaluations
June-December will send at a later date
Reporting System
I know we are settling into a new
reporting system. I was recently at a meeting where we discussed many
of the questions that have arisen with the new program. I will be
preparing a hand-out on how we wish to have HES programs reported for
the coming year. We know that the system may need tweaking, but we
hope to be able to move ahead and make changes following this fiscal
year. My PD colleagues will also be creating a sheet for their named
programs as well. As these are developed I will share them with you.
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