Best Of Corpus Christi Webinar Series

March 9, 2017
8:00a-4p Pacific/11:00a-6p Eastern

Pricing:

Full Webinar Series:
Member: $160
Student/Volunteer/Retired/Seasonal: $130
Nonmember: $235

Single Webinars:
Member: $35 (1 hour)/$40 (1.5 hour)
Student/Volunteer/Retired/Seasonal: $25(1 hour)/$30(1.5 hour)
Nonmember: $50 (1 hour)/$55 (1.5 hour)


Best of Corpus Christi

Reprising NAI 2016's most popular concurrent sessions

March 9, 2017
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Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: Increasing Cultural Competency for Better Interpretation

8:00am Pacific / 11:00am Eastern (90 min)
C. Parker McMullen Bushman 

How can we be more effective interpreters with participants from cultures other than our own? In this webinar participants will hear tips and techniques for examining their personal cultural competence, increasing their ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with all people.

Charnell Parker McMullen Bushman is the Education Director for the Chincoteague Bay Field Station. Her background in in the environmental education and interpretive fields spans over 16 years. Parker’s interest in inclusion and equity issues developed from her personal experiences facing the drastic lack of diversity in the environmental organization and green spaces.


GeoTours and GeoTrails: Bridging People, Places, and Ideas

10:00am Pacific / 1:00pm Eastern (60 min)
Larry Perez, Jill Snyder and Jenn Seva

Parks are increasingly embracing geocaching to reach visitors. This session will explore how parks are working through partnerships in the development of GeoTours and GeoTrails as a way of scaling visitor experiences to include larger landscapes and explore bigger ideas.

Each of us is a naturalist, an educator and also a geocacher: Larry Perez is a Climate Coordinator for the Climate Change Response Program with the National Park Service in Colorado. Jill Snyder is the Senior Naturalist at Highbanks Metro Parks for Columbus and Franklin Country Metro Parks, Ohio. Jenn Seva is Senior Manager of Travel & Tourism for Geocaching Headquarters in Washington DC.


Messaging and Merchandising: An Interpretive Store Case Study

11:30am / 2:30pm Eastern (60 min)
Sarah Lisle, Tony Lucio, & Scott Whitener

Parks constantly balance priorities that don’t always align with interpretive goals. Learn how one Texas park blended two—concessions and interpretation—into a store experience that gives visitors both interpretive opportunities and theme-driven mementos and supplies for purchase.

Sarah Lisle is the Director of Interpretation at the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area Alliance in Atlanta, GA.

Scott Whitener is Park Superintendent at South Llano River State Park in Junction, TX with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

Antonio (Tony) Lucio is Revenue Resources Manager with Texas Parks and Wildlife in Austin, TX.


Lessons Learned from the Performing Arts that Make Your Presentations Shine

1:00pm Pacific / 4:00pm Eastern (60 min)
Lisa Borok and Elise McFarland

Performing artists hone physical, mental and verbal skills and are trained to protect their “instruments” from work related injuries. Interpreters can borrow from these practices to take presentations to a new level and extend their longevity in the field.

Elise McFarland works as an interpreter for California State Parks at Carnegie SVRA. With a degree in theater and ten years performing as a member of an improvisational troupe, she wants to share the way her theater background has been useful in her sixteen years as an interpreter.

Lisa Borok wears professional hats as an independent interpretive consultant and a Park Interpretive Specialist at the California Railroad Museum. Dancing and singing since the age of four, she’s employed these techniques throughout her twenty five year interpretation career.


Paradigm Shift: Tour Evolution at a Young Museum

2:30pm Pacific / 5:30pm Eastern (90 min)
Walt Burgoyne

After an interpreter was hired to oversee school and public tours at the National World War II Museum, volunteers who had shared their expansive knowledge of WWII through walking lectures were re0tasked to engage visitors through interpretive techniques and tours were refashioned thematically

Walt Burgoyne (Michigan State B.Sc Biology and Park Administration; University of Florida M.Ed Science Education) worked for 25 years in 7 zoos as a volunteer, intern and staffer, followed by NPS and USFWS service. He then shifted to historical interpretation at The National World War II Museum. After 11 years service, he is now the Asst. Director of Education for Interpretation, developing tours and training docents. 
When
3/9/2017
Where
UNITED STATES
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