Links for Leaders in Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts May-June
1997
HOW:
E-mail, some say, is reviving the dying art of letter writing. You really can "talk" for free to anyone anywhere in the world. It’s part of the fee you pay to your Internet service provider.
You need an e-mail software program: you likely got one with your computer (e.g. MS Mail), your Web browser (e.g., Netscape Navigator Mail), or your ISP (e.g., Sympatico, IBM). Your ISP will give you an e-mail "userid" (mine is wrightwords), domain address (mine is ibm.net), and a password (not telling!).
Connect to your ISP, get new mail, disconnect.
Your mail software stays on your screen! Read your mail, write reply/s,
set Option to ‘delayed send.’
Reconnect, tell it to ‘send now,’ disconnect. Cheap trick, eh?! Yes
Canadians really do say "eh". A lot!
If you don't like the software but keep your same ISP. I like Netscape better than the Mosaic that I got with my IBM computer. So I downloaded Netscape to use as Web browser and to manage my email. "Download" (save to your computer) software off the Web. Others love Eudora.
So that your new mail software knows where to find your ISP's server (the computer that holds and sends your mail) you’ll need to know:
To find these try Options/Servers or Preferences in your current program. Then cut and paste the information into Options or Preferences in you new program.
There is no e-mail "phone book." To e-mail someone, you must ask for their e-mail address. Try on-line directories or WhoWhere, or Four11, but remember, people have to register there before you can find them! So, Register yourself!
WHERE:Use
Jennifer Walker’s directory of Guiders'
e-mail addresses to find old GGC friends, or to see who's on-line in
the world of Girl Guides! We have reconnected with my 14-year-old's former
Snowy Owl -- now a fourth year medical student! Don't
forget to send Jennifer
your E-ddress!
Mailing
lists are another amazing
aspect of the Internet -- and a huge boon to leaders! You have to subscribe
first. Then, every message you send to the list goes to all members, and
you get theirs. Some lists are high-volume so sign up for a digest version:
instead of 30 to 40 e-mails a day, you'll get them all in one sending,
to read at your leisure.
What's on a Guiding mailing list? Craft ideas, problems, solutions, song lyrics … One member said she decided to stay in GGC because of the support she finds on the list! Need the words to a song you just can't remember -- and need it for tonight? Want a quick craft? Ideas for a 5-day camp??
Meet new E friends in Canada and around the world, on the Guiding Mailing List. Most members are Canadian and this list has a decidedly Girl Guides of Canada slant, but there are many international contributors as well.
Look at (mostly U.S.) WAGGGS-L mailing list as well. There are a lot of Canadians and international contributors here too.
Subscribe now!!! It'll keep you going through the summer till Guiding starts up again!!
Can’t
be active next year? Don't quit!!!!
Consider joining one of the many Trefoil
Guilds around the world. Use this site to introduce you to this next
stage in your Guiding career (or that of a friend!) This site comes from
Wendy Halpen, Streams District Commissioner in Southern Vancouver Island
Area, Victoria, B.C. Canada, Pathfinder Guider and member of the new Western
Lights Trefoil Guild.
From
Deb Buckle, Glan Oaks DC in Southern Vancouver Island Area, Victoria, B.C.
Canada, and Guide Guider, comes a pointer to a beautiful souvenir of the
1996 WAGGGS
World Conference in N.S. Held every three years, the World
Conference is attended by the Chief Commissioners of each member country
of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).
Camping
and outdoor links: 
The
Backcountry Recipe Book, Version 2.1 is a great bunch of recipes, including
many links elsewhere.
Canada’s
Sirius Wilderness Medicine goes far beyond traditional first aid courses
to give "comprehensive and realistic first-aid
training for outdoor volunteers" such as Pathfinder and Ranger
Guiders.
Escape
to Nature: Cyberspace
Guide to Hiking with info on what to take, how to layer, what to watch
for and more...
Skeeters’
Guide To Camping is perfect for Pathfinder-age
campers — young, irreverent and full of good info, in a form they girls
may just pay attention to!
Leave
No Trace "promotes land stewardship, minimum-impact skills, and
wilderness ethics."
You'll love these easy & fun crafts submitted by real girls ages 7 to 14. Hey, even I can do these!!
GUIDERS'
OWN:Love games, puzzles, crosswords? Keep sharp this summer with Omnibus, a fun, intriguing word puzzle that’s gorgeous too! Keep checking for new puzzles every few days. (Got Java? Listen to the great jazz at the Omnibus site!)
Contact me!
Send me your ideas for columns and favorite Websites (I'm
always looking for sites that are non-guiding but that can be used in the
girls' programs).
