Distance Education in South Dakota

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Training Without Travel
Jim Wilson Extension Pesticide Ed. Coord. South
Dakota State University
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Why?

• Demographics

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South Dakota Density / sq. mile
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Why?

• Demographics
• Fuel Prices / budgets

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North Central South Dakota 4/28/06
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Why?

• Demographics
• Fuel Prices
• Time

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Valid Reasons , But. . .

• Is it as good as live?
• Can it be close?
• What can / cant you do?
• Technology Cut / Bleed?
• First Aid Kit
• Plan to minimize risk
• History

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Distance Education in SD

• Interactive video conf. 1994
• State RDTN system? DDN
• Limited locations
• Limited time blocks
• Cut off at top of hour

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Distance Education in SD

• 2000 RUS Telecom Grant
• 300K 300K match
• 17 site IP based conf. system
• Extension controlled
• ? 8 phone conf. lines
• Guess what? - Outdated

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Distance Education in SD

• 2006 another RUS Grant
• 300K match
• Update add sites
• ? 27 sites 16 phone lines
• Plan for upgrades
• Technology changes quickly

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Proposed
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Distance Education in SD

• Early reliability issues?
• Cut bled
• First Aid - Have backup plan

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Distance Education in SD

• Excellent for rural areas multi-state spon
  taneous training
• - - Regional Training - -
• Example - WNV Info training

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Example - WNV Interactive Training 2002
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What Cant you do?

• No Q A lecture only

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Q A Can Work

• Be prepared - Pregnant pauses
• Questions
• ND

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What Cant you do?

• No Q A lecture only Can do
• Demos

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Demos?

• Doc Cameras
• Vid cam wireless mike

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What Cant you do?

• No Q A lecture only Can do
• Demos Can do

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Cant Do?

• Not a lot you cant do
• But, need to do it different

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Whats Needed?

• Big Font
• Contrast color
• Not talking head
• Talk to camera

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Continuing

• The trade or brand name and common name of the
  pesticide applied
• Trade or brand name--The name of the pesticide
  applied,as it appears on the product label.
• Example--Tordon 22K
• Common name--The name of the active ingredient in
  the pesticide product. The common name will not
  be required, provided a complete trade or brand
  name is listed on the spray record, as the trade
  or brand name will be considered the information
  needed to meet the common name requirement.

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Room Layout
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Whats Needed?

• Good moderator
• facilitate questions
• Room set up
• Mute remote mics

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Whats Needed?Equipment

• Neutral Background
• Wireless mic
• Document camera
• Remote camera
• Projector

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Whats NeededInteraction

• Again facilitators
• Time away from monitor
• Question sets
• Prenotify locations

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Ready Right?

• Technology can bite you
• and
• it will
• First Aid Kit

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First Aid

• .ppt files all locations
• Conference phones
• Phone bridge
• Handouts of .ppts
• ? Cell phone tie-in ?

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Training w/o Travel

• Can be done
• Numerous benefits
• Numerous challenges paradigm
• Be prepared
• Have a backup plan

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Questions

• Demo?