Naomi Hirsch, Community Outreach & Engagement
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Naomi Hirsch, Ed.M. Naomi's Bio (pdf) |
Naomi Hirsch joined the Outreach team in 2003. She came to the program with a great deal of experience and knowledge from previous outreach positions in academia within the fields of forestry, horticulture, and fisheries.
After receiving her B.S. in Forestry in 1990, Naomi's passion for educational outreach began when she was an agroforestry extensionist in Paraguay with the Peace Corps. She then worked in the field as a research assistant with the Peach and Almond Breeding Program at the University of California at Davis and later in 1996 as the program coordinator for a new statewide Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center (FNRIC) working with researchers, Cooperative Extension, and industry. The FNRIC was designed to incorporate emergiing technology for outreach, and this position served as a platform for her in the area of educational technology via the web.
Naomi left California in 2000 and began working at OSU with Extension Sea Grant in community development. She was finishing up graduate school as she began working with EHSC, and received her Master's degree in Adult Education in 2005.
She is passionate in the areas of educational technology, collaboration, community building, public health, evaluation and creating engaging educational experiences. After work, she enjoys time with her daughter, the outdoors, and the community.
Current Projects
- Superfund Research Program (SRP) - Program Coordinator, Research Translation Core
- Gulf Oil Spill Project
- Social Media Manager: Facebook and Twitter @SRP_OregonState
- 2011 APHA Roundtable on Communication Strategies - My Resource List and Notes
- Grant-writing and external reviewing for other programs
- Hydroville Curriculum Project management
Past Projects
- On-line technology and resource development -
- Drupal web site production and management: EHSC, SRP, Hydroville, Unsolved Mysteries of Human Health
- Podelation blog - Social Media Conversations for Environmental Health Community Educators
- EHSC- produced podcasts
- Tutorials: How to Produce a Podcast with an Edirol R09
- An Interview with Naomi Hirsch by the Office of Research (2008, 10 min)
- A "Teacher's Podcast" episode: A Conversation about Podcasting in Education and 21st Century Learning - A Podcast from the New Media Expo 2007 in Ontario, CA with Dr. Kathy King and Dr. Mark Gura from Transformation Education LLC.
- Fishing for Answers on the Willamette River (past project with the Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Center)
Memberships: American Public Health Association (APHA), International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE), EDUCAUSE, Oregon Public Health Association (OPHA), Oregon Program Evaluator's Network
My Resources
- Edutopia
- Social Media Guide for Researchers
- CDC's Health Communicator's Social Media Toolkit (pdf)
- iLibrarian
- Sloan-C
- The Collaborative on Health and the Environment
- County Health Rankings
- Cumulative Impacts Project
- ISTE Learning
- Core4Women.org is a free online community of women talking about online learning
- The Center for Communicating Science
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- How-To Guide for Creating Accessible Online Learning Content
- Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling Survey
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Expert Round Table on Social Media and Risk Communication during Times of Crisis - A special report from APHA