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What is "Backyard Jungle?"
Backyard jungle is a sophisticated, free, kid-friendly website where users around
the world can load photos, drawings, and descriptions about the natural surroundings
where they live, their "backyard." Users manage and map their own information,
share it with other people who visit the website, and visit and comment on the
backyards of other users as well. With other people worldwide users can explore
and answer the question, "What's out there?" All the content (information, photos,
and drawings) on the website is loaded by users themselves.
How does Backyard Jungle work?
Backyard Jungle is organized around three types of information that users
load into the website: "Members", "Backyards", and "Discoveries." Anyone can
view this information. Only people who join as Members can load in information,
map their Backyard, and put Discoveries into the website. Members also get to
vote on each others materials, earn points, and get featured on the home page
and other parts of the website when they load in something super cool or beautiful.
Members leave their computer, explore their surroundings (yards, neighborhoods,
parks, wildlands), and return to load descriptions and photos and drawings into
the website.
Who created Backyard Jungle?
A bunch of cool people who like to explore the outdoors, to see what beautiful
and scary things live there, and see cool stuff from others all around the world.
Backyard Jungle was created and is produced by staff at Forum
One Communications. Backyard Jungle was funded by the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting.
Contact Information:
Manager: Backyard Jungle
2200 Mount Vernon Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia 22301
Phone (703) 548-1855x20
Fax (703) 995-4937
Email: listenup@backyardjungle.org
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