San Diego Cachers Needed

[+GEM's]

Start thinking about this opportunity mark your calendars...more info soon.

 

Check out the same event in Seattle and Portland

 

The NECC conference is the largest Educational Technology Conference in the World!

[+pdxmarathonman]

Start thinking about this opportunity mark your calendars...more info soon.

 

Check out the same event in Seattle and Portland

 

The NECC conference is the largest Educational Technology Conference in the World!

You can tell from the posts that we all had a great time. It is pretty cool to be exposing teachers to this great hobby of ours and to see the light go on for many of them with regards to the teaching potential for their students. It is well worth the time.

[+Team Geogeeks]

I actually participated in NECC in San Antonio, Seattle, New Orleans and Philadelphia...and yes, I will be in San Diego this year. Would love to help out if needed. I do live here in San Diego County.

 

I did the Educause conference in Florida back in October....(this is the largest higher ed technology show) there was a cache located near the convention center there and you wouldn't believe the traffic it received. Who da thunk? A bunch of geeks at a show, cache nearby? Hmmmm.........

 

Somebody may want to get in touch with Itrax and Foxtail.....I believe they are working on doing a presentention during NECC. itrax works at a local school district here in San Diego County. As a matter of fact, I'll just go ahead and email him myself and make him aware of this thread.

 

Team Geogeeks

Edited February 14, 2006 by Team Geogeeks

[+Team PodCacher]

I actually participated in NECC in San Antonio, Seattle, New Orleans and Philadelphia...and yes, I will be in San Diego this year. Would love to help out if needed. I do live here in San Diego County.

 

I did the Educause conference in Florida back in October....(this is the largest higher ed technology show) there was a cache located near the convention center there and you wouldn't believe the traffic it received. Who da thunk? A bunch of geeks at a show, cache nearby? Hmmmm.........

 

Somebody may want to get in touch with Itrax and Foxtail.....I believe they are working on doing a presentention during NECC. itrax works at a local school district here in San Diego County. As a matter of fact, I'll just go ahead and email him myself and make him aware of this thread.

 

Team Geogeeks

 

I will be speaking at NECC. I'm slotted to to a 3 hour session. I'll be introducing educators to geocaching, and discussing the implications in education and the classroom. I will then be taking them on a "hands on" walking field trip to experience chasing down a cache (conference specific). I'll be creating a simple cache, a mutli cache, maybe a puzzle cache.

 

FYI: I will also be speaking on geocaching at a local conference this March in Palm Springs. CUE (www.cue.org). We have already inked a deal with Garmin to provide loaner GPS (yellow) for the teachers to use.

 

Sonny (iTrax)

[+GEM's]

Yahoo! iTrax and Geogeeks!

 

I'm hoping you will review the Portland and Seattle threads and take peek at the idea for this conference.

 

I was in Philly, Seattle & New Orleans as well. But have only coordinated this type of activity for our local regional conferences with 2-3,000 participants.

 

This year the NECC conference chairs saw how popular it was and asked if I could put a team together to organize a similar activity for NECC in San Diego.

 

I also have confirmation from Bernie Dodge (WebQuest creator) that he'll help us too!

 

Currently we need to find GPS units...I'll have about 40..I think we'll need 100.

 

I also need local cachers to set a course within walking distance of the Convention. (ie. get waypoints, permission to place for the duration of the conference, hints, Cache titles) Possibly an advanced course for real geocachers. Ususally these are temporary caches.

 

And the Biggy is volunteers to man the booth, I shoot for 4 cachers in 4 hour shifts although most like to stay all day once they do it once. We'll have a booth near the ISTE Booth, in the middle of the action....I'm thinking every participant will have a ticket at registration to encourage them to stop by our booth to play and win free prizes.

 

Thoughts? This is getting Exciting!

[+Team PodCacher]

I will be speaking at a conference this weekend in Palm Springs about Geocaching In Education. Garmin has loaned me 20, brand new, eTrex (yellows) for participants to use. My session will teach (teachers) them how to geocache, use the GPS and discuss educational implication.

 

I'm pretty sure I'll be able to hang on to these 20 units to use at NECC as well.

 

I'll find out what San Diego cachers are available to help support this effort.

 

For the NECC conference in July we'll need:

 

Creative minds to design caching "events" (courses etc.)

 

Volunteers to help at a booth to "evangelize" geocching.

 

Etc.

 

I've been in contact with GEM and there are already some GREAT ideas for hides, games, contests, prizes, etc.

Edited March 8, 2006 by iTrax and FoxTail

[+habu!]

I would be willing to volunteer for the conference. I have worked with Playtime, Inc. as a geotech for over two years, and now I have started esigning geocourses for them. I would be more than happy to help out.

Edited March 12, 2006 by hrtpmpfxr

[+Team PodCacher]

I would be willing to volunteer for the conference. I have worked with Playtime, Inc. as a geotech for over two years, and now I have started esigning geocourses for them. I would be more than happy to help out.

 

Just sent you an email. Thanks for helping out!

[+GEM's]

Habu!

iTrax

Foxtail

Team Geogeeks

 

Others?

 

Groundspeak will be sending their new staff memer in marketing to the conference!

 

Please join our planning discussion on this wiki:

 

http://necccaching.wikispaces.com/

Edited March 29, 2006 by GEM's

[+Team PodCacher]

Okay San Diego Cachers!!!

 

The time is near! This is a GREAT chance to have some fun and teach other (teachers!) about geocaching. How cool is that? (way cool)

 

We NEED geocacher volunteers to man a booth for a couple hours at the conference. You'll get to tell people (teachers) about geocaching, help check out loaner GPSs for them to use to find local caches.

 

Here's the conference:

 

http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/

 

Here's some INFO on what we want to do as cachers:

 

http://necccaching.wikispaces.com/

 

Here's an event cache made for this event where you could win a moun10bike geocoin!

 

http://tinyurl.com/jpre9

 

Here's a link to my profile if you'd like to write me for more info:

 

http://tinyurl.com/bofa5

 

or write us at: podcacher@gmail.com

 

I'm hoping to show teachers from all over the states how Souther California cachers pull together for an event!

[+pqcachers]

Okay San Diego Cachers!!!

 

The time is near! This is a GREAT chance to have some fun and teach other (teachers!) about geocaching. How cool is that? (way cool)

 

We NEED geocacher volunteers to man a booth for a couple hours at the conference. You'll get to tell people (teachers) about geocaching, help check out loaner GPSs for them to use to find local caches.

 

Here's the conference:

 

http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/

 

Here's some INFO on what we want to do as cachers:

 

http://necccaching.wikispaces.com/

 

Here's an event cache made for this event where you could win a moun10bike geocoin!

 

http://tinyurl.com/jpre9

 

Here's a link to my profile if you'd like to write me for more info:

 

http://tinyurl.com/bofa5

 

or write us at: podcacher@gmail.com

 

I'm hoping to show teachers from all over the states how Souther California cachers pull together for an event!

 

I would be able to help out on July 6th in the morning/early afternoon. Sounds interesting!

[+SD Rowdies]

Okay San Diego Cachers!!!

 

The time is near! This is a GREAT chance to have some fun and teach other (teachers!) about geocaching. How cool is that? (way cool)

 

We NEED geocacher volunteers to man a booth for a couple hours at the conference. You'll get to tell people (teachers) about geocaching, help check out loaner GPSs for them to use to find local caches.

 

Here's the conference:

 

http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/

 

Here's some INFO on what we want to do as cachers:

 

http://necccaching.wikispaces.com/

 

Here's an event cache made for this event where you could win a moun10bike geocoin!

 

http://tinyurl.com/jpre9

 

Here's a link to my profile if you'd like to write me for more info:

 

http://tinyurl.com/bofa5

 

or write us at: podcacher@gmail.com

 

I'm hoping to show teachers from all over the states how Souther California cachers pull together for an event!

 

I would be able to help out on July 6th in the morning/early afternoon. Sounds interesting!

No good deed goes unpunished.

[+FlagMan]

I would jump on board for this, but we will be out of town. Sorry! -FlagMan.

[+Team PodCacher]

So far we have the following volunteers (some confirmed, some pending). Some are geocaching educators from out of state who are coming to attend the conference, but still want to help! That is awesome!!

 

GEM's

iTrax and FoxTail

Webfoot

TheFatCats

LuckeyDuckey

jerrytcher

Tombmaker

goofyguy24

habu!

pqcachers

olvegrn

ducks4friends

AZkiteflyers

 

This is going to be a blast! Anyone else want to join the fun? We have 16,000 potential "newbies" so we might be a little out-numbered!

 

Don't forgot, you could Win a Moun10Bike Coin!! plus other cool giveaways.

 

I'm working on the schedule right now, so send me an email at podcacher@gmail.com if you want to help or need more details.

 

July 4, 5, 6, 7 - San Diego Convention Center

 

Thanks!

Sandy (FoxTail)

[+redstareg]

I was logging in to see what I could do to help with the event, and then the phone rang with my work schedule - I'll be there at the SDCC, but working - I might just have to stop by and meet some of the GC folks.