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16 entries from official and volunteer blogs posted the week of August 31st, 2015.

ScoutingU: The new look of online training

If you have ever taken an online course, you know how cumbersome they can be. Usually it just involves watching some video clips, or reading text (sometimes with pictures) and possibly taking a quiz. At best, it's a one-way introduction to a topic;...

Bobwhite's Blather August 24th, 2015

Web Site Status

Fellow Scouters, After more than 50 years of participation in the Scouting Movement, I had to pull back from a lot of my activities due to health issues a couple of years ago. One of the casualties was this web site's blog. Although I have not been...

The NetCommish August 27th, 2015

Issue 450 â€" August 25, 2015

________________________________________ I tried jeans. Just once. I thought, well, as a Commissioner visiting one of the troops I serve, maybe I should look like the Scoutmaster and his assistants, and most of the Scouts. Big mistake. The first...

Ask Andy August 26th, 2015

Values taught here. Helmets not required.

Fall is approaching, and as the temperature goes down, the pigskins go up. Every Friday night at high schools and Saturday afternoons at colleges all across the country, players take to the field to see who can dominate a one-hundred-yard patch of...

Bobwhite's Blather August 27th, 2015

Bear Den Meeting Plan – Bear Claws: Pocketknife Safety and Soap Carving

This Bear den meeting plan covers most of the three requirements for the Bear Claws adventure. Bear Claws is all about pocketknives and whittling. After this plan, the Cub Scouts will need to carve an additional item. You could add a second meeting...

Scouter Mom August 28th, 2015

B-P's Blog â€" Camping and Hiking

During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I'll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you'll draw inspiration and...

Scoutmaster Clarke Green August 30th, 2015