Learn geocaching through continuing education
Interesting, but true…Lander University, in Greenwood, South Carolina, is offering three courses in geocaching through continuing education classes.
The fundamentals of geocaching will be taught in three continuing education courses at Lander University beginning Sept. 22. Coordinator Shelley Grund said the three instructors are geocaching experts and each course will consist of two classroom sessions and one geocaching exercise in the field. The three courses cost $25 each. Further information about these and other Lander continuing education courses can be obtained by contacting Grund at 864-388-8426, or by going to the Lander Web site at www.lander.edu/continuinged.
-Gwdtoday.com
I guess my question is…what exactly is a “geocaching expert”? How exactly do you define that? That’s the second time I’ve seen that phrase in a news story, and I still don’t get it. Either way, it’s kind of neat that they’re offering these classes.
Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio, once offered a geocaching class through their Student Recreation and Wellness Center via their Adventure Center, and they also offer private instruction for any group that wants to learn geocaching. For a group of six to 15 members, it costs $60/hr for a university group, $100/hr for a non-profit group and $140/hr for a corporate group.
Anyone know of other universities that are getting involved with geocaching? Also, could someone PLEASE tell me when it is exactly that you turn into a “geocaching expert”?
I kind of wonder what goes on in these courses. I guess you become a geocaching expert when you can convince someone to pay you for it. I've taught many people to geocache – for free!
I guess my question is who is claiming to be a geocaching expert? Watch it turn out to be someone with maybe 50 finds over a two year period and 100 hides. I'd be laughing so hard if you took the course and then, when you all go out to do some geocaching, you make the "expert" look bad.
I have over 2,000 finds. I'd probably look at myself as experienced versus an expert.
Now, if it was one of these people: http://www.cacherstats.com/Rank1-125.html
especially one of the ones with over 10,000 finds…I think that might just be enough to claim being an expert.
*Poof* you ave now been granted expert status! lol
I can't believe people are making money TEACHING geocaching.
There are too many resources out there (aka us expert bloggers) to ever PAY for a class!
I don't think # of finds qualifies anyone as an expert either. It's like saying I'm a food expert becuase I eat a lot of food
LOLOLOLOLOL @ erika!!! i am definitely a pizza and fudgerounds expert. LOOLOL. oh my gosh i am dying that was so funny.
geocaching experts are people who think they rock but prob still have trouble with the 1-1's just like the rest of us!!
@Geonarcissa I like your definition of an expert. I suppose you can be an expert at anything if you can get someone to pay you for it
@Tripcyclone I see where you're coming from about the number of finds, but I can't bring myself to let that qualify someone as an expert geocacher…but I like how you label yourself experienced
@Erika Jean I didn't even read blogs to figure out how to do it. I just jumped in the car, wandered around the woods and found the box my first time. Not even a suitable GPSr! Haha
@Basebell I bet the people who teach these classes have gone wandering in the opposite direction of their GPSr just to find that someone who followed the GPSr found the ammo box, you think? haha
This just may be your calling. Perhaps you'll eventually be teaching it at KSU.
@John This is NOT my calling. Geocaching is something I do for fun and I will NOT mix this hobby/sport with whatever I do to support myself in life. And I certainly have no interest in sticking around KSU after I graduate. I'll eventually figure out what I want to do for a living, but in the mean time I'm going to enjoy what I'm doing right now and continue caching
My question to all this is… how in the name of holy hell do I get a job teaching that class???
@P.J. I'd be willing to bet you could charge people on your own and teach a class. Apparently people are silly enough to pay for something like that