It’s time for the 7th Annual, 2013 Walkabout! The nine-week walking challenge is back. Get your team together today!

Go to the website to register and for more information: http://educ-walk2013.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

Opening Ceremony: January 16th, 2013 12:30 – 2:00 pm. Scarfe 310.

For those new to Walkabout, here’s how it works.

·         You join with four others to form a team of five.

·         Each person on a team wears a pedometer and records his/her respective steps (or exercise equivalent steps) each day.

·         At the end of a week, the total number of steps walked by the team are submitted to the website and the distance walked (or exercised!) is calculated and plotted on the Walkabout virtual map.

This year Walkabout has joined in with the Year of Indigenous Education to provide a walking journey through the First Nations territories of British Columbia.

The Walkabout website details information regarding some of the Indigenous communities, organizations, and Nations that we will visit on our virtual adventure. We urge you to combine your physical journey with an imaginative one that engages the Indigenous peoples along our virtual route.

In keeping with the theme, your team may want to consider selecting an Indigenous name. This is a great idea, but we request that you be conscious of stereotyping and appropriation concerns. Please see the website for helpful guidelines.

Once again there will be prizes! And many ways to win them, including collecting ‘visas’ in your virtual passport as you engage Indigenous communities along the route. And of course there will be the million stepper club, most team social steps, most team actual steps, most team social and actual steps, best team photo, and so on.

So, don’t delay! Assemble your team and join us for the 7th annual Walkabout.

Go to the website to register and learn more: http://educ-walk2013.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

Dates to remember:

·         Opening ceremony: Wednesday Jan 16th, 2013; Neville Scarfe Building Rm 310. 12:30 – 2 pm.

·         Nine-weeks walking: Monday Jan 21st to Sunday March 24th, 2013

·         Closing ceremony: Wednesday April 3rd, 2013; First Nations House of Learning. 12:30 – 2 pm.

Please spread the word widely. Invite family, friends, and colleagues who are not on campus to join the walk!

By the way, if you don’t have a team, register anyway.  We will find a team for you.

Posted: 01|9|13 at 5:06 pm. Filed under: Announcements, Department Events.
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