Sasha Say’s – Website during lockdown

Real Radio: Time to talk Geopark, as usual. But not quite as usual because we're doing this remotely, of course, being in lockdown. Joined by Geoeducator Sasha from home. How are you, Sasha?

Geoeducator: Hi. Yeah, good thank you. How you Dan?

Real Radio: Doing okay. Now, what we've got basically at this situation at the moment obviously can't really get out and about and explore the Geopark. But you can do it online, can't you?

Geoeducator: That's right. Yes. So Lisa and I are both working from home during this period. So what we've decided to do is we're gonna really concentrate on developing the website with resources for people to use from home. So the number one focus at the moment is just getting up and running a kids page. So on there we'll have things like word searches, colouring in - with descriptions of the different things that they're colouring so that there's an educational element to that as well relating back to the Geopark. And we're just asking people to email us or jump on to Facebook and just let us know what you would like to see on the website for the kids page. Because obviously, you know, I'm well aware that there's so much out there and parents are getting bombarded with so much via Facebook at the moment of various activities for children to do while we're in lockdown. So we don't want to be adding to that. We want to be able to offer a resource that's very usable for people. So if we can just get some feedback, then we can make sure that we are meeting the needs of what people are actually after at the moment. So that will be really great.

Real Radio: Good stuff. Okay. So what's the website address again?

Geoeducator: Okay, so our website is Whitestonegeopark.nz or you can email me directly at geoeducator@whitestonegeopark.nz. And we'd just love to hear from you. And in addition to the children's page that we're doing, we're also updating a lot of our other resources online. So we're going to be working through a lot of the Geosites and just putting more information out there about what people will be able to see later on once things get back a bit to normal. In the meantime, people can just get on the Website and maybe get a bit more understanding of exactly what the Geopark is.

Real Radio: Thanks, Sasha. We'll leave you to it and we'll catch up again next week.

Geoeducator: That's great Dan. Take care.

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