slodocents.org
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Mission - slodocents.org represents San Luis Obispo County Coast California State Park Docents interested in improving our  effectiveness as volunteers... read more...

• Docent Activities are to be posted at the slocoastdocents Yahoo! Group calendar --
  all group members can post to the calendar; the public can view events.
   
• How to become a docent and/or walk docent (ccnha.org link)
  NEW Mentor System: Requirements for Walk/talk Docents; Apprenticing as a Walk/talk Docent for Adventures with Nature (AWN); Sign Off (requirements, process, and form)
• Communicate with us!
  • If you are a docent or an authorized CA State Parks or ccnha staff member join our PRIVATE slocoastdocents Yahoo! Group.
  • If you are a "walk docent" join our PRIVATE walkdocents Yahoo! Group
  • If you are an interested member of the public you can join the PUBLIC docents Yahoo! Group.
  • Webmasters and organizers of this site can join the slodocents.org webmasters public Yahoo! Group to better communicate issues and questions regarding the content and organization of this site.
  • Send site suggestions or errors, etc to webmaster at slodocents.org  (this currently forwards to just Mike Baird, mike at mikebaird.com)
• Chairperson's Place (Louise Abbott edits the content at slodocents.org/chair)
  May someday include Docent Council Bylaws, Docent Council Minutes...
• Messages posted by State Park Interpreter Rouvaishyana
• Committees and their Heads (Rev. 3/08)
• Policies & Procedures
• Adventures with Nature (AWN) walks
  • Calendar of CCNHA-related events
  • Walk Outlines and descriptions (Louise Abbott will be editing all content at http://slodocents.org/awnwalks )
    (including procedures for creating new walks, getting approvals, etc.)
• Mind Walks
  • Howard S. (Dick) Miller CCNHA Mindwalk 18 Feb. 2008 supporting Word document "The Spooners of Montana de Oro Considered as Objects of Natural History"
• School Program (calendar of available dates)
• Related External Links
  • docents.info (contains information that will be posted on slodocents.org moving forward)
  • morro-bay.com/docents ("docent pages" - contains information that will be posted on slodocents.org moving forward)
  • slostateparks.com
  • ccnha.org
  • Joyce Cory's docentjoyce.com including Alden B. Spooner Pecho Ranch History,  Women of the Pecho, and Montaña de Oro State Park - Spooner Ranch House, History
  • Curt and Sandra Beebe's
    • Windy Cove
    • Western Poison Oak
    • The Sand Spit and the Bay
• Design Guidelines and Authoring Tools for slodocents.org
• Forms
  • Docent time sheet in Excel format 
    If you don't have Excel you can edit this document inside your browser at Google docs
    (where you can also edit Word compatible documents, and soon PowerPoint compatible documents)
  • Visual Media Consent Form DPR933
    (use this to get written permission to use photos of the public)
• Password-protected content 
• Docent Related Photos and Visual Media (includes select external learning/training resources)
  
  • NEW: Photos or videos to be shared with the docent community should be uploaded by the individual photographer to a private free Flickr account (http://Flickr.com) and then added to the general slodocents group/pool there (http://flickr.com/groups/slodocents/).  Some special-purpose project-specific group/pools have been, and can be, created instead, or in addition, such as the Minke Whale Restoration Documentation project.
  • Pecho Ranch Day July 7, 2007 - A Jumpcut video produced by Docent Joyce Cory  (an annual celebration of the historic Pecho Ranch in Montaña de Oro State Park.)  Photos originally at flickr.com/photos/docentjoyce and now also at the slodocents.org Flickr account
  • The Pt. Buchon Trail.  A section of pristine coastline on Pacific Gas and Electric property opened to the public on July 13.  The trail is a 1 mile loop. Eventually it will be extended to 3 miles. A Jumpcut Video by Joyce Cory.
  • Underwater photography in Morro Bay by Ken Bondy and Gary Powell showing amazing photos of plant and animal life from "muck dives" under the Morro Bay, CA North T-Pier - see also www.kenbondy.com/digital.htm and www.kenbondy.com/images/Journeys/Chapter%201_Morro%20Bay.pdf

Suggestions or comments? We want your feedback now!  E-mail  webmaster [at] slodocents d o t org
 

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