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Full-Text Articles in Life Sciences
Agricultural Communications Students Describe A Short-Term Field Experience, Angel N. Riggs, Diane Montgomery
Agricultural Communications Students Describe A Short-Term Field Experience, Angel N. Riggs, Diane Montgomery
Journal of Applied Communications
Student-run publications, including newsrooms and similar agency-style work achieve the curricular goal of experiential learning (Roberts, 2006) for university agricultural communication students. Gaining a journalistic skillset in the classroom is richly supplemented with experiencing real-world and authentic agency immersion to reveal to students the genuine characteristics of a workplace. The purpose of this study was to use Q methodology to evaluate a real-world, out-of-class-but-supervised newsroom producing publications for the State FFA Convention. Fifteen undergraduate students who were immersed in this three-day program in which students publish original work to disseminate information to FFA participants and the public participated in the …
A Content Analysis Of Extension’S Presence On 1890 Land-Grant University Websites, Garrett M. Steede, Laura Fischer, Diane C. Meyer, Courtney Meyers
A Content Analysis Of Extension’S Presence On 1890 Land-Grant University Websites, Garrett M. Steede, Laura Fischer, Diane C. Meyer, Courtney Meyers
Journal of Applied Communications
The 1890s land-grant university was established to provide the tripartite mission of education, outreach, and research to rural and urban audiences. However, it is challenging to complete this mission if the Extension aspect of an 1890 university is not easily found through online media. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the online presence and technology presence of 1890 land-grant Extension programs on their respective university and college (or equivalent) websites. This content analysis of 18 land-grant universities found only one university had a direct click from the university homepage to the Extension homepage while 10 of the 19 …
Assessing Training Methods To Educate Dairy Workers, L. Mendonca, B. E. Voelz, A. Scanavez
Assessing Training Methods To Educate Dairy Workers, L. Mendonca, B. E. Voelz, A. Scanavez
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
Training employees is fundamental for dairy producers to achieve efficiency in order to increase profitability. Training videos offered online are becoming more common and recommended to train employees. The goals of this survey were to evaluate the comfort level of dairy employees in using computers and tablets, and preferred training delivery methods. A total of 71 employees from 6 dairies were interviewed. Interviews were conducted in the preferred language of the interviewee – English or Spanish. Of the respondents, 52 and 65.6% of employees consider computers and tablets easy to use, respectively. More than half of the employees reported that …