Archive for April, 2011

How To Engage The Community!

April 21, 2011 · Filed under Resource · Tagged , , ,

Great thoughts from “Let’s Talk Camp” on how to engage the community through the many social media communities at our fingertips. Good content is the obvious key but this article really gets down to the best way to tackle this seemingly simple idea.

Dear Anonymous,

Let me first thank you for your question and welcome you to the discussion.

You have a great question and my answer is simple…GREAT CONTENT!

Now, you might be thinking “sure, that’s a simple answer but how do I do that?” There is a blogging principle of  the 3 C’s.  Comments, Conversation and Community.   These 3 C’s are huge with social outlets such as Facebook and the good news is that Facebook helps make the process easy.

via Let’s Talk Camp

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Explore 30 Camp Reading Program

April 20, 2011 · Filed under Resource · Tagged , , ,

The Explore 30 Program seems rather interesting and I’m curious if anyone in our group has considered or is actually participating this summer. I think we can all agree that we need to find new ways of keeping camp relevant but how do we incorporate what seems like such an academic type activity into our every summer day schedules. My first thought is book club activities or a cabin time activity but that’s just me. Any of you have some other ideas or ways to incorporate a program such as Explore30 into our camp programs?

Sound off in the comments. 🙂

Explore 30The Challenge

During the summer children experience “summer learning loss” when they are not involved in high quality programs with opportunities for skill building. As a result, young people can forget up to 2 months of academic instruction, particularly in the areas of reading and math when they are not in school.

[From Explore 30 Camp Reading Program]

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