Confluence State Park ranger Jose Velazquez explains to a group of Ecuadorian students how beavers have chewed the bark off a downed tree in the Horan Nature Area. The students watched Canada geese and marmots and talked about salmon and local foliage before a forum with Eastmont High School students. (World photo/Kelly Gillin)
EAST WENATCHEE — Sixteen-year-old Jenyfer Morales had never seen Styrofoam before Monday. She looked it up and down, poked it with a pencil and passed it around to her fellow Ecuadorian natives.
The Eastmont students sitting across from them had just finished explaining how the school district plans to replace their Styrofoam lunch trays with a recyclable product next year.
"What's Styrofoam?" the South American students asked.
Consumerism and waste is just beginning to reach parts of Ecuador, 18-year-old Santiago Haro explained through an interpreter.
Haro and the other 10 student activists have been working within their communities to build healthy economies while protecting the environment and their culture.
On the other side of the forum, Eastmont students are working on a few sustainability projects of their own.
A grant-funded program called 4-H Eco-Stewardship is leading students — and not just from Eastmont — on several hands-on adventures this year. Depending on the high school, students are working to find bio-controls for noxious weeds, monitoring wildlife and studying alternative energy.
Undergraduate researchers in the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University presented their results during Mom's Weekend in early April. Research projects ranged from the history and construction of the monokini (Apparel) to marker-assisted selection applied to the bovine genome (Animal Sciences). This short video features highlights from the research expo. (briancahnrs: videographer)
The LSU AgCenter 4-H and FFA Junior Showmanship show gives members a chance to show their broilers. This guide shows how to handle your broiler for exhibition showmanship.
Join Lincoln, a 4-H'er from Louisiana, as she shows you how to make molds from animal tracks in the wild. Check out more great videos and online games on the Louisiana 4-H Kids Clubhouse website at www.louisiana4h.org/kids.
This 4-H video was produced in March 2006 and has had over 1,500,000 hits on Youtube! Watch local Port Townsend, WA youth teach how to skate board. This video features Isaac Mayo on skateboard, Pamela Roberts, camera. Editing by Daniel Bryant and Pamela Roberts.
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Show above are (names TBD), who are visiting 4-H Network News to receive training on the use of free online communication systems. Each of these youth leaders will return to Equador with new skills to support various community projects that they are leading. Congratulations and welcome!
Philip Linden (aka Philip Rosedale) was appropriately the first Presenter of the WSU Virtual Journalism Summit. He is, after all, the father of Second Life.
Forward thinking Mr. Linden spoke of the necessity of learning to navigate in virtual worlds because the technology is advancing so rapidly that this sort of media will be commonplace. With approximately 1,000,000 members and about 80,000 people online at a time and 250,000 people everyday, the virtual world of second life is growing exponentially. He said SL is early in it's evolution, so imagine the possibilities. Kittie was in awe of Philip Linden's Optomism and apparent ability to see possibility when things could be dismissed as fantasy.
Hamlet Au (aka Wagner James Au) of New World Notes gave an excellent presentation on his professional virtual world journalism career. Journalism is at a crossroads with changes imminent for traditional media and Hamlet Au gave examples of how he is using Second Life to connect with people and be there as the stories unfold.
Egyptian bloggers Eureka Dejavu and Schmilsson Nilsson of DIP's (Dancing Ink Productions) Dispatches from the imagination Age were able to be present in Second Life and premiere their latest documentary - Virtual Journalism: Inside the Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo.
Kittie felt fortunate to be able to attend without having to make the physical trek across the Cascade Mountain passes to get to the other side of the state. Imagine being able to attend from Egypt.
Erica Driver, Bernhard Drax, Lane Merrifield, and Lila King were also featured keynote speakers and participated in a roundtable discussion with Philip Rosedale and moderated by Wagner James Au.
Headliners, Helen Thomas and Bob Schieffer were the final speakers of the day. They answered questions in both Second Life and real life, and shared their thoughts on the future of journalism.
The summit was held in Pullman, WA, main campus of Washington State University in real life in CUB Auditorium, sponsored by Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. It was also simultaneously held in Second Life on the WSU Virtual Campus Sim. People attending in Second Life were able to view a live stream of the event on the internet and interact with each other and ask questions of the presenters via chat.
Those who missed the live event may view the archived stream at http://experience.wsu.edu/
The WSU on Second Life project is a growing initiative - stay tuned for exciting updates!
Pat Perreault with Port Townsend TV interviews author and family systems specialist, Claudia Black, after the launching of the OUR KIDS: OUR BUSINESS initiative to prevent child abuse and neglect in Jefferson County, Washington. Jesaint Baril, 4-H Network News, camera. Halie Dengler, 4-H Network News, editor.
April is National Child Abuse Prevention and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Kelly Matlock of the Jefferson County Health Department shares about the OUR KIDS: OUR BUSINESS initiative she is helping lead related to this April emphasis for children. 4-H and many other agencies and organizations in Jefferson County support this project! Hannah Tipton, 4-H Network News reporter, asks about the initiative and how it positively impacts the community. Pamela Roberts, videographer.
April is National Child Abuse Prevention and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. 4-H and many other agencies and organizations in Jefferson County support this project!
On March 27 Dr. Claudia Black shared her insights at a kickoff luncheon for the initiative at our local Elks Club, along with Laura Wells from the Fight Crime: Invest in Kids program. (Click on photos to open larger format.)
Shown in the photo from l. to r. are: Halie Dengler (4-H Network News), Jesaint Baril (4-H Network News), Claudia Black (author and family systems specialist), Lysander Dusseljee (4-H Network News), Hannah Tipton (4-H Network News), and Pat Perreault (Port Townsend TV).
Claudia Black is interviewed by a team of 4-H Network News reporters, from l.: Hannah Tipton, Halie Dengler, Jesaint Baril and Lysander Dusseljee.
Laura Wells of the Fight Crime: Invest in Kids program shares statistics related to the positive impact of support programs for families.
Shown in the photo l. to r. are: Kelly Matlock (Jefferson County Health Department - and one of the main organizers), Claudia Black (author and family systems specialist), TBD, Anne Winegar (Jefferson County Community Network), Port Townsend Police Chief Conner Daily,Laura Wells (Fight Crime: Invest in Kids), Jefferson County Commissioner David Sullivan.
Commissioner David Sullivan accepts an award from Laura Wells for the positive work being done throughout Jefferson County related to child abuse prevention.
Jesaint Baril films Halie Dengler interviewing Laura Wells of the Fight Crime: Invest in Kids organization.
Pamela Roberts (Jefferson County 4-H coordinator) and Halie Dengler (4-H Network News reporter), watch as Lysander Dusseljee interviews Claudia Black.Jesaint Baril, camera.
This video was created from archived footage of an emergency preparedness meeting at the Jefferson County WSU Extension in Port Hadlock, WA. The presenter in the movie is Bruce MacPherson, and he is representing Simpson Strong-Tie via Hadlock Building Supply. The presentation was edited for length and given transitions, but otherwise it remains mostly untouched; a quick publishing of footage that has never before seen the light of day! Luke Turner, 4-H Network News editor.
Confluence State Park ranger Jose Velazquez explains to a group of Ecuadorian students how beavers have chewed the bark off a downed tree in the Horan Nature Area. The students watched Canada geese and marmots and talked about salmon and local foliage before a forum with Eastmont High School students. (World photo/Kelly Gillin)
