Today I tryed out 12seconds.tv the latest in a wide range of video blogging application. You guessed it the video can only last 12 seconds. It clarifies your thinking, cuts the waffle and captures your first impluse. For my madien voyage a asked the same question that I asked on seesmic and qik (also video blogging platforms) before that.
What can 12seconds.tv and social media do to advance sustainable agriculture and the environment?
what can 12 sec.tv do for sustainable agriculture & environment? Looking course for people already using eExtension I go a fairly modest response all round. However this afternoon I was pleased to find another angle. August 16 – 24 is National Science Week in Australia and as part of the festival the ABC, eWater, CSIRO, the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and National Science Week have developed a online simulation game that makes anyone with a computer a virtual catchment manager.
The game called Catchment Detox, takes you through a range of scenarios and with a limited budget you must balance agriculture, industry, urban centre, and catchment health. Pretty much what a catchment care organisation does on a daily basis. BCCA is a cacthment care organisation and I wrote a quick blog post for them about Catchment Detox here.
While the thought of an online game might seem frivolous to some, it should be remembered that anyone under the age of 20 is a digital native. That is they don’t know a world without mobile phones, laptops, or electronic entertainment like Catchment Detox. They live and learn through digital interfaces as much as through other media. That is why is is vitally important if you work in Agricultural extension, or Landcare, or Catchment Management that you start to think about how you are implementing your eExtension strategy. Because more and more you are going to be competing with products like Catchment Detox, for your stakeholders attention.
I first discovered Catchment Detox via Science Alert
Tags: eExtension, CatchmentCare, Agriculture, Landcare, ScienceWeek, Seesmic, 12second.tv, qik
