Within our NIEHS outreach and engagement community we are committed to healthy homes in the U.S. Wouldn’t it be great to go global! Efficient safe stoves are good for the environment, economy, and the health and safety of families in third-world countries. I will be going to a noon-time talk this Wednesday to hear about […]
Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Go Global
Monday, December 6th, 2010Learning from Adversity
Monday, December 6th, 2010ASCD has some new video clips in preparation for the 2011 Annual Conference. One hit home. When trying to get faculty and personnel to adopt new ways of doing things, it is easy to get defensive and take things personally, because it can get so frustrating. It is important to not take lack of interest […]
Time to Embrace Health 2.0
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Authenticity is key to connecting with people around their health. Utilizing technology to create behavior change takes an entrepreneurial spirit, passion to make a difference, and a holistic view of health. A possible explanation for the reason that Health has generated its own “2.0” term are its applications across health care in general, and in […]
Empowering Uses of Technology
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010From The Northwest Educational Technology Consortium (NETC) You’ll know your integration is effective if it is: Supporting diverse learners needs (SPED, ELL, TAG) /Meeting more diverse learning needs Enabling a wider range of teaching styles /Augmenting teachers’ instructional style Increasing the range of “hard-to-master” teaching strategies Creating more positive teacher/student relationships Building cooperation between students […]
The Word of the Day is "Engagement"
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Student engagement, engaged learning, community engagement, outreach and engagement…. Some form of the word “engagement” is all around us. It was the focus of the main speaker at OSU’s University Day 2010 with a topic entitled: Engaged Learning: Fostering Success for All Students. It was the topic at our recent annual NIEHS meetings with discussions […]
Organizing and Evaluating Professional Development Workshops
Monday, November 8th, 2010Earlier this year we piloted EH@Home in-person workshops. Creating a model for organization and evaluation was a very important part of this project. Organizing each workshop involved a series of cyclic steps outlined below. From each workshop came feedback that was incorporated in future workshops. This enabled us to have near real-time improvement and help […]
Science Education Through Music
Friday, September 18th, 2009I think this is the way to go…. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0zION8xjbM&hl=en&fs=1&]
Engaging Environmental Health Education
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009There is a new “Health eHome” on-line that is quite impressive. This content was created from an educational collaboration between WebMD Editorial and Healthy Child Healthy World. Within this eHome, people can go room to room and learn about the various toxins around their home. Most toxins can easily be replaced with alternatives. For some, […]
Being a Gifted Speaker
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008I found my way to Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog this morning and found it to be very interesting. I’m going a bit off topic, but we all want to empower and motivate audiences when we present (especially when we present about new technology). The Blue Skunk post begins with a great reference from “Being […]
Behind this Blog
Monday, September 15th, 2008I was recently interviewed by Jana Zvibleman from the Research Office at Oregon State University. The audio below is 10 minutes long talking about the outreach program and what we have and will be doing with new technology. Learn more about Naomi Hirsch, the Environmental Health Sciences Center Community Outreach and Education Program, The Hydroville […]
