Success StoryHorticulture Agent Finds Ways to Teach During Safe at Home Guidelines of Covid-19 Pandemic
Horticulture Agent Finds Ways to Teach During Safe at Home Guidelines of Covid-19 Pandemic
Author: Kathryn Wimberley
Planning Unit: McCracken County CES
Major Program: Community Engagement
Plan of Work: Acquiring Life Skills
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Situation: Beginning in April of 2020 through June of 2020, the Horticulture Agent created programs that were taught by the online program called Zoom. Due to the onset of the Covid0-19 pandemic, it was necessary for programs to be offered virtually to continue with education in horticulture and the arts. University of Kentucky Offred training on how to teach classes. Horticulture Agent developed PowerPoint presentations to teach.
Initial Outcome:
Agent Training as part of CEDIK Advisory Group of UK Extension:
Under the guidance of Dr Jeff Young, Horticulture Agent created and presented to other Agents signed up in KERS 1.) Container Gardening outreach in the Uppertown Heritage Foundation 2.) Landscape Design and 3.) Landscape Drawing. Approximately 30 were in attendance.
Partnering with McCracken County Library, the “McLib Live” event on 6 May 2020 Horticulture Agent created and presented “Beginning Gardening” by Zoom. This was requested by the McCracken County Library as outreach for free education to their at-home audience. Due to Covid-19 many requests about gardening in the back yard have come into the Library and Extension. About 17 people attended. This was recorded and made available for later viewing for free on the Library website.
The McCracken County Library also sought a class in Art/Horticulture that the Horticulture Agent has presented in the past. On 10 June 2020 Horticulture Agent taught the McLib Live class entitled “Landscape Drawing.” Approximately 12 people were in attendance at the live event. The class was recorded and made available to residents by going to both the McCracken County Library website and the McCracken County Cooperative Extension Service.
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