Naomi Hirsch, Community Education
 Naomi Hirsch 223 Weniger Hall (mail to 1011 ALS) Corvallis, OR 97331-6505 Ph: 541/737-8105 Fx: 541/737-4371 naomi.hirsch@oregonstate.edu |
Naomi Hirsch joined the Outreach team in 2003. She comes to the program with a great deal of outreach experience from previous experiences in forestry, horticulture, and fisheries. After receiving her B.S. in Forestry in 1990, her 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 as the program coordinator for the statewide Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center working with researchers, cooperative extension and industry. She left California in 2000 and began working at OSU with Extension Sea Grant in community development. Naomi received her Master's degree in Adult Education in 2005. She is passionate in the areas of collaboration, community building, and creating engaging educational experiences around environmental health topics. |
Current Projects
- Adapting a Water Quality Curriculum for Community Colleges
- EHSC web site revision and management
- Hydroville Curriculum Project management
- On-line technology and resource development -
- Podelation blog - Social Media Conversations for Environmental Health Community Educators
- Producing a Podcast with an Edirol R09
- How to cite podcasts and websites from Grammar Girl
Listen to Audio
- EHSC produced podcasts
- An Interview with Naomi Hirsch by the Office of Research (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.
