From experiences of returning to traditional events to virtual leagues – the webinar on Tuesday 20 October 2020 enabled 80 attendees from across the home countries to hear directly from club volunteers about their club experiences as well as listen to the latest national picture from British Orienteering presented by Natalie Weir and Ric Gamble.
On the night attendees watching heard from a selection of club speakers including Jon Eaton (WCOC), Colin Dickson (BAOC), Jason Falconer (WSX), Phill Batts (CLOK), Martyn Roome (SROC).
Juls Hanvey (Sporting Clubs Coordinator – NI) who gave us an overview of an LVO October Outdoors project. This project highlighted four weeks of adventurous orienteering challenges across three boroughs supported by The Outdoor Partnership NI and delivered via virtual orienteering courses. This project highlighted how we can potentially start thinking about utilising virtual orienteering courses as a brilliant tool to engage newcomers in the current COVID19 climate.
Sal Chaffey (DVO) and Mike Godfree (DVO) who couldn’t join us on the night have also provided their ideas and experiences of MapRun and this presentation, along with the others featured and the link to the video can be found here.
British Orienteering continue to be motivated and inspired by all that clubs are doing to embrace, innovate and organise round the current restrictions as well as continuing to try to negotiate permissions and access.
We hope those who attended found being able to hear and share experiences interesting and inspiring. Please do keep an eye out for future webinars – with the next one likely to be featuring and discussing MapRunG experiences – MapRun on a Garmin Watch.
Further details will be announced on the British Orienteering website shortly.
Did you know?
British Orienteering has a dedicated webinars page on the website where all the webinars produced are listed.
The dark nights present a great opportunity to catch up on the recent webinar series focused around Returning to Orienteering , Permanent Orienteering, and Virtual Orienteering Courses., plus many more. You may have missed one or two of them, or maybe it would be useful to re-watch them again to help you build on any ideas you already have.
To access all the series of webinars produced during lockdown follow the links below. Click on the session title to watch any of the sessions back in your own time.
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Q&A on the Back to Orienteering guidance. This session outlines the key points resulting from the published guidance for each nation and took live questions. We hope this session provides the confidence and practical understanding to support clubs as they continue to move forward in planning their return to local level event delivery. --- |
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Entries, Booking & Contactless payment systems. This session provides a recap of fully integrated entry with payment systems - Fabian, SI, Eventrac etc followed by some excellent examples of individual club booking systems from CLOK, POTOC & HH. An overview of the most common contactless card payment systems - Izettle vs Sumup vs Square is provided along with a helpful experience of using iZettle from SLOW. LVO also provide a helpful iZettle user guide handout. ---- |
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Introduction to the UsynligO Virtual App Simon Bailey from BOK demonstrates how the UsynligO app can be used to set up virtual courses, the practicalities and functions of the platform as well as taking questions. ----- |
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Q&A on the next steps of the Back to Orienteering plan Join British Orienteering CEO Peter Hart and the Development team to discuss the Back to Orienteering action plan. Peter and the team answered your questions live and heard your thoughts for how local events and the sport may look when local events and activities resume. ----- |
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Bitesize Webinar session: In this recorded session, Pat discusses using OCAD with MapRun. Pat provides support for users of the MapRun App on using OCAD maps/exporting courses. ----- |
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Bitesize Webinar session: In this recorded session, Pat follows up his earlier Map Run webinar by explaining the local administration role associated with Map Run. ----- |
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This session sees Oliver O'Brien demonstrating how to use Open Orienteering Map, the practicalities and functions of the platform as well as relating its use for creating virtual Orienteering and it's more familiar use in urban/ street orienteering. ----- |
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How to use the MapRun app for virtual courses In this webinar Pat demonstrates how the app can be used to set up virtual courses, the practicalities and functions of the platform as well as taking questions and answers. ----- |
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Using Routegadget to set up virtual courses In this webinar, Simon demonstrates how to use Routegadget to set up virtual courses (without SI results), the practicalities and functions of the platform as well as an taking questions to provide further insight into its practicalities. ----- |
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Simon Errington from Hertfordshire Orienteering Club (HH) presents all about Routegadget. Showing you the basics through to some more advanced techniques. ----- |
Don't forget - if you have a subject you would like to hear more about, please email: nweir@britishorienteering.org.uk
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