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Entries Tagged as 'professional development'

How We Coped with a Critically Injured Staff Member during Summer Camp

September 1st, 2008 · Comments

It was Saturday, July 19th, 2008.  I was at a wedding for one of my husband’s friends when I got a call from a staff member.  Not being able to take the call during the wedding I texted her back.
Her reply: “Just wondering if u had heard of anything about john murphy there’s all this [...]

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Tags: John Murphy · crisis · facebook · professional development

Blog World and New Media Expo 2008 - Summer Camps Can Learn to Incorporate New Media

August 29th, 2008 · Comments

Summer Camps have often been slow to adopt new technology.  There are a few reasons for this:

Many traditional camps focus on getting children outdoors and participating in activities that the cannot normally do at home.
A large group of the well established camp directors and owners did not grow up with new media and [...]

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Tags: professional development · technology

New Media Conference for Camp Directors Interested in Technology

June 1st, 2008 · Comments

The New Media Expo is billed as the world’s most popular convention for podcasters, bloggers and online content creators. While August 14-16 is not the most ideal for a summer camp director to be thinking about professional development, this is a conference worth leaving camp for - especially if you are interested in new [...]

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Tags: marketing · myspace · professional development · social media · technology · teens