The UF Department of Agricultural Education and Communications is proud to highlight the remarkable achievements of our graduate students who have recently defended their master's theses and PhD dissertations. These students have demonstrated ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching,
Mentoring Language- How to Use It Effectively Using appropriate language within your mentor relationship is vital to ensuring the relationship is open and positive. There are seven categories that can help you foster effective language when ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension,
SMART goals provide a framework often used in various settings to create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound objectives. When applied to mentorship, SMART goals can provide structure and clarity for both mentors and mentees. SMART ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
By: Caroline Nickerson, AEC Ph.D. Student Gainesville, FL – The Streaming Science project, a program associated with the University of Florida, is excited to announce ClimateCast Live, a groundbreaking series of digital field experiences ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Events, UF/IFAS Extension
Established in 1972, the Program Development and Evaluation Center’s (PDEC) mission is to add value to UF/IFAS Extension through improved program development and evaluation processes and the enhancement of professional competencies based on ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Extension
In 2018, the Coalition of Florida Extension for Latino Communities (CAFÉ Latino) was built and designed by UF/IFAS Extension faculty to assist Extension Agents in Florida in better serving the needs of the state’s growing Latinx population. ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Extension
Here's another oldie-but-goodie pulled from pages as IFAS migrates blogs. These are some of the public engagement with science (aka science outreach or informal science education or science communication) resources I have found in my day. Public ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
My sister brought Seth Godin's blog to my attention a few months ago. He writes about, among other things, "changing everything." Though at first glance it is not related to my work as it is really about business and marketing primarily, I have ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & LifeI took on an #extension fellowship in 2015 on citizen science, to promote its use throughout #coopext. This continues to pay dividends, as I am now in the process of taking on my first PhD student advisee, who wants to study citizen science! ... READ MORE
Category: Community Volunteers, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS ExtensionAs people develop their public engagement (aka outreach or communication or informal/free-choice education) practices, they may begin to think about the style they use when engaging. One tool that agricultural educators often draw on is Kolb's ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension