2020 All Tool of the Week Episode - CampHacker #136

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It’s our annual “Tool of the Week” show! All tools, all the time!

Here come the links!

Happy holidays, friends!

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Tool of the Week – Make Yourself a Better Camp Director

New Tools Used In the last 4 months

• Travis: 

  • 3D Printed Mask Bracket

  • RocketBook Orbit (and Cloud Cards)

• Joe: 

  • Orient Your Screens To Be On Top of One Another

  • Fastcap Measuring Tape - Metric / Imperial

• Chris: 

  • Padlet.com - online bulletin board

• Gabz:

  • Apple Pencil

Phone Apps

• Chris

  • Chwazi App - Determine Who Goes First - Apple / Google

  • Good News Network App - Apple / Google

  • DNDify - Epic RPG Music - Google

• Joe

  • Pocket

  • Feedly

  • Sketchbook Autodesk

• Travis

  • NanoTeleprompter - Google / Apple Other Version

  • AnyList

  • Yac - transcribed voice messages for your team. Works on Slack

Webinars

• Gabz

  • Embodied Anti-Racism

  • The Fundraising Lab

  • Go Camp Pro’s 5-Minute Fridays

Computer Apps

• Joe

  • Google for Work Suite - It just keeps getting better

  • Video Studio Pro Ultimate - Full Video Editor for $99

  • Framer - Prototype Phone Apps

• Chris

  • Snip & Sketch in Windows Windows Key + Shift + S

    • On Mac it’s cmd+shift+4

  • Audacity

  • PDANet for Android

• Travis

  • Command E - Universal Shortcut Tool

  • Stack Browser

  • Notion - Great note-taking interface

    • Travis’ Travis Allison- CCA President-Elect | Good Questions to Increase Video Call Engagement | Follow-up Emails Every Camp Should Have - after a camper inquiry

Gabz Bonus Items:

• Pocket Counsellor

• Chalk Markers - Put Plexiglass in front of chalkboards

• Junior Sized Football - A personal football that is special and to be thrown around by staff

Books

• Joe

  • Art Matters - Neil Gaiman

• Chris

  • How to Be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi - Buy it from a black-owned bookstore, please!

• Gabz

  • White Fragility - Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo

• Travis

  • The City We Became - N.K. Jemisin

Bonus Items

• Chris 

  • Toilet Paper roll chord organization system

• Joe

  • Pick Punch - Variety of Sizes

• Travis

  • Window Scrolling Keyboard Shortcuts - cmd+tab on mac or alt+tab on windows

• Gabz

  • White Christmas/Fairy Lights for you to own so they have as a back-up

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Your Hosts:

• Chris Hudson, Camp Director - Camp Highlight

• Gabrielle Raill, Camp Director - Camp Ouareau

• Travis Allison, Summer Camp Consultant - Go Camp Pro

• Joe Richards, Executive Director - Pearce Williams

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