It is almost here!!!!! The Fair is Coming! The Fair is Coming! Let the bells ring out and the banners fly! Feast your eyes on it! It's too to be true but it's almost here!
So far we have had one of the quickest signing up for the staffing the MOU State Fair booth that I can remember! Thank you all who have signed up so far for your interest and willingness to jump in and let others share the wonder of birds through your experience, knowledge and passion! If you like, please share why you signed up with others so they can hear what excited you about staffing the booth. We have filled almost half of our staffing shifts and still have excellent spots for you to play! This year we have new toys and have significantly modernized our table and displays! We have a brand new commercial spinning wheel that will have 12 bird pictures. Instead of just giving out posters and goodies, people will spin the wheel and get to identify the bird that the wheel stops on - or we get to talk about the bird that comes up aor share stories. Then they will get a handout of a poster, a bird stamp "tattoo" or whatever else will be on the table. I have visited many expositions this last year and the clicking, spinning wheel attracts people and kids like crazy! I love this kind of game and those that play will get a new appreciation of birds, sharing what they know and learning from you and the info on the table. Of even greater thrill!!!!!! Technology has arrived at the MOU State Fair Booth!!!! We have a new state of the art dual-point touch screen computer display and a plethora of software that will greatly enhance the interest and learning for those who visit our table. Our goal is to have this be an incredibly user friendly system that will be easily mastered even by those just coming by. This is hands on stuff. State Fair goers will remember their experience and the on-line offerings of the MOU website, the passion of birding, and the fun of playing with technology to learn about birds. Please don't miss this opportunity to share your passion with novice and visiting birders and make a difference in people's lives by illuminating the beauty and wonder of birds. We have the tools to help you in your passion and you just might learn a thing or two, to boot! Don't forget, you get free tickets into the fair and all the people watching you can imagine, easy access to the variety of food and drinks that fair offers, and only a 4 hour commitment before or after you peruse the wonders of this year's Great Community Get Together - the Minnesota State Fair. Don't miss this opportunity. There is only on 2010 in your life - isn't it about time you jumped and experienced what everyone else is talking about? See you there! (I will be grabbing a bunch of staffing spots pretty soon so you had better grab them now before I steal them away - for me the best times are the early morning when the fair first wakes up - around 6 a.m. - easy parking -- and then the last shift to watch the folks put their animals to bed or to watch the fireworks.) (Grab the bus tickets via the mail and park at a mall and let the hard part of getting there and back be handled as well as the gas for only $5 or park and ride for free. Check out the MN State Fair web site for info. Sign up on the Google Calendar. 1 Go_www.google.com_ (http://www.google.com) 2. Click "Sign In" on the top right hand corner of your screen. 3. Sign in using "mouvolunteer" as your "email" and "ilovemou" as your password 4. Click the "more" drop down menu item located at just about the G in Google along the top of your screen. 5. Click "Calendar" from the drop down menu. 6. You will see a calendar centered on today's date. Scroll through until you get to August 26th 2010 where you will start to see the MOU booth shifts in red. 7. Click on the shift that you want to sign up for. I find that clicking on the actual word "Shift 1"(or 2 or 3) is the quickest and easiest. 8. Write your name after "shift 1, 2, or 3", in the "what" box at the top of the form. 9. Click "save" 10. Log out (on top right hand corner of the screen). OR email Jen or me and tell us what shift you want. Jen Vieth: [email protected] Thomas Maiello: [email protected] Thomas Maiello Angel Environmental Management, Inc. Maple Grove, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
