Sunday, October 24, 2010
Bag Lady: 100 words : Growing old
Bag Lady: 100 words : Growing old: "I don’t mind getting old; I remember when forty seemed to be a million miles away. I have wrinkles around my eyes. I’ve have had a lot of l..."
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Promoting the profession
"Home Economics has made a large place for itself in our public school system, the people's college. School boards need no longer be bribed with hot biscuits and well broiled steaks served by the children to show how "practical" Home Economics is." -1911 Isabel Bevier
AAFCS New Tagline
Connecting Professionals, Touching Lives
Do you think this accurately depicts what an FCS professional is? What we are as an association? How do we shake the image that we are obsolete or old fashioned?
Do you think this accurately depicts what an FCS professional is? What we are as an association? How do we shake the image that we are obsolete or old fashioned?
AAFCS Survey Re: Social Media Use
Help AAFCS learn more about your social media experience and professional needs by completing a brief and confidential online survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/aafcssocialmediasurvey. It will be open until midnight (11:59pm ET) on October 13.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
FCS Relevance and the Millenial generation
http://www.ncfr.org/about/news_read.asp?id=1647
This little "digital ethnography" got me thinking about the perceived relevance of our profession(s) to the new generation of students. I think that this is our strength, and should be a major focus of ours--getting the word out that our classes are relevant, timely, and needed. Gets to that "life skills" idea that AAFCS has been promoting, but I think goes beyond that as well. Our classes are tailored to professionals and promote knowledge and skills they can use in both their professional and personal lives.
Watch the short video and let me know what you think. Another issue that the video brings up that I'd like to explore is modes of learning. How should we best deliver course content? What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of on-line classes as opposed to the traditional lecture class? Are there other alternatives? If students are texting, blogging, facebooking, e-mailing, websurfing, etc. during class, and spend far more of their time on the computer, what are the practical implications of this for teaching and learning (and how prepared they will be for professions that involved actual physical, real world contact with human beings)? Things to ponder as we move forward.
This little "digital ethnography" got me thinking about the perceived relevance of our profession(s) to the new generation of students. I think that this is our strength, and should be a major focus of ours--getting the word out that our classes are relevant, timely, and needed. Gets to that "life skills" idea that AAFCS has been promoting, but I think goes beyond that as well. Our classes are tailored to professionals and promote knowledge and skills they can use in both their professional and personal lives.
Watch the short video and let me know what you think. Another issue that the video brings up that I'd like to explore is modes of learning. How should we best deliver course content? What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of on-line classes as opposed to the traditional lecture class? Are there other alternatives? If students are texting, blogging, facebooking, e-mailing, websurfing, etc. during class, and spend far more of their time on the computer, what are the practical implications of this for teaching and learning (and how prepared they will be for professions that involved actual physical, real world contact with human beings)? Things to ponder as we move forward.
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