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public lands blog |
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Hooray! Sustainable Foods on the Table at National Parks
Jul 26, 2007
Xanterra, the concessionaire that manages the visitor facilities in Yellowstone...
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recent work from portfolio |
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Public Lands Visitor Center now online!
For YEARS I've been thinking about how to create a wonderful presentation at publiclands.org that relates...
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house of beauty |
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The Legendary House of Beauty...
The Queen's legendary, infamous, home-brew website. More content than you can stomach in 4 weeks of vegetable eating! Features stories, movies and cooking. Hand built in Notepad! Ahhh....the gogo 90s, where are they now?
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Throw the Bums Out |
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And I'm not talking about you know who....
Kids need to be outside, and with the likes of Richard Louv inspiring the nation, there is a push from the government to fund programs that support outdoor education & getting kids to go play in the woods again.
Working locally, I am supporting this effort by leading a scout troop, working on improving recreational access to trails in my area, and organizing parents, teachers, village planners, and kids to walk and bike to school. It's very satisfying to work at the local level, and to see results in my community!
Professionally, I am currently seeking funding for a nationwide game to get kids out exploring in the woods and geotagging the natural wonders they discover. What can you do in your community? Probably many of the same things. There are kids everywhere in this country who need someone to unplug them and throw them out the door. Try it, they'll like it!
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Who wants to play?
Computer games, anyone?
After much agony, I have come to the conclusion that if I want to spread the good word about how cool and wonderful public lands are, a game's the thing. If you just look at outcomes, games do just about everything that an interpreter can do. No reports in yet on retention and transfer, but the evidence is pretty strong that this is a very effective educational tool.
What do you think? What would be important for a public lands game? What would make it fun? i would love to get people's ideas on this, as I look for funding and collaborators.
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about queenellen... |
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Who Am I?
Well for one thing, enough of a philosopher to question whether this question can ever really be answered, much less in a couple of paragraphs. As Queenellen of Queenellen Enterprises, I take the field of public lands interpretation into cyberspace. I'll tell you the best thing about virtual tourists:...
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our services... |
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Queenellen Enterprises Services and Capabilities
Founded in 1998 by Ellen Dornan, Queenellen Enterprises creates, organizes, develops, researches, writes, and edits multimedia and interpretive projects with particular focus on visitor information and interpretation for areas of the western U.S. Ms. Dornan uses her extensive background in the visitor...
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design collaborative |
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The Dynamic Duo
Style and Substance — 1uffakind Design and Queenellen Enterprises — team up for successful and competent development, maintenance, and marketing of educational, interpretive, and inspirational new media materials. Our team is small but efficient, with long years of experience executing large-scale...
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