How long does the film stay in your camera? (Young parents excluded
from this query!)

I just realized that we have some soon to be developed photos of our
Son & friend (ages 7) hiding the Enigma Stone & Mad River letterboxes on
the Long Trail. The first USA kids to hide letterboxes! I'll get the
photos on disk, do something arty with them and then post it. Perhaps
the Kid's page can use them.

This kid's page has been wonderful for all - something to create
together - does this make us a village?

Take care all,
Susan
Vermont

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I know this is an exciting project and I don't want to step on any toes,
but is this Kid's Corner project turning into the "cyberboxing" we were
all pooh-poohing (no pun intended) some months ago? Maybe I'm confused
at the approach here and unclear on the intent, but I think we should be
getting kid's off the computer and out in the real world to do some real
letterboxing. Mitch has started the project off beautifully with his
how-to instruction. How can we compliment it with enough information
and fun to get these kids excited enough to get out and do it? I don't
know if a full-blown story and interactive WWW experience are
neccesarily the way. Let's remember that the fun we find in L-boxing is
the DOING.
--
Thom Cheney
Early Bronco Entertainment
http://www.EarlyBroncoEnt.com

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Thom is smart to advise that we don't get too caught up in the Kids Corner
project. We can't let it take precedence over the need to get more boxes out
there.

I think we all agree, however, that getting kids interested in letterboxing
will be important to the survival of the hobby. Of course, we want to make
sure that the effort put into any online project is justified by the learning
process it supports.

The purpose of the project has to be to introduce kids to the concept of
letterboxing, and show them how to carve a stamp, make a box, use a map, and
read a compass. This needs to be accomplished in an easy-to-understand format
and in a way that is fun and interesting to kids.

Randy suggests that before we get too caught up in content and graphics, we
need to establish our basic structure. Then we can flesh it out as needed. I
think this is good advice, so I've put together a bare-bones first draft.

What I have tried to do is create a practical exercise for young map readers
that gives them an idea of what it's like to use a map and compass to follow a
series of steps from one point to another.

http://members.aol.com/letterboxr/q1.htm

The map is just something I threw together quickly. We could easily adapt
this concept to a nicer, more detailed map at a later date. For now, I just
wanted to get something posted that we could try out and critique and decide
if it will be useful.

I included a crude attempt at the zoom feature (magnifying glass) that Dan
mentioned, although it serves little purpose for this over-simlified sample
map.

This first draft version will look better on Explorer browsers than on
Netscape. Netscape browsers will show the map broken up into sections. I
will figure out a fix for this problem when I get time, but meanwhile I wanted
to let you all see what I have so far, in order to keep the ball rolling and
get this project finished so we can move on to other things.

Thank you all for your continuing input.
-- Mitch


In a message dated 11/18/98 12:06:05 PM Pacific Standard Time,
tcgrafx@imagina.com writes:

> I know this is an exciting project and I don't want to step on any toes,
> but is this Kid's Corner project turning into the "cyberboxing" we were
> all pooh-poohing (no pun intended) some months ago? Maybe I'm confused
> at the approach here and unclear on the intent, but I think we should be
> getting kid's off the computer and out in the real world to do some real
> letterboxing. Mitch has started the project off beautifully with his
> how-to instruction. How can we compliment it with enough information
> and fun to get these kids excited enough to get out and do it? I don't
> know if a full-blown story and interactive WWW experience are
> neccesarily the way. Let's remember that the fun we find in L-boxing is
> the DOING.
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Thom Cheney wrote:
>
> I know this is an exciting project and I don't want to step on any toes,
> but is this Kid's Corner project turning into the "cyberboxing" we were
> all pooh-poohing (no pun intended) some months ago?

I suppose that is always a possibility Thom, but I think we are going to
minimize the cyberbox feel as much as possible without eliminating the
teaching element for the kids (and really for adults). I think this can
work to bring all of the "About Letterboxing" and "Getting Started"
stuff together into a neat little scenario if we do it carefully and
thoughtfully. The Kids will see what's going on and so will the adults
I think.

This is fun seeing everybody working together like this
offering ther time and talents.

Tom Cooch is learning how to help with the web editing and he is a great
help. I gave him my ID and password and some of the programs I use and
he's off to the races! Cool!

Dan'l
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