Feb 3, 2016 | Announcements, Hunt Tips, Weekly Hunt
We may be busy showing off Eventzee EDU at #TCEA16, but that doesn’t mean we can’t show some love to our Weekend Warriors! We’re proud to announce that we have extended our Pioneers of Gold line for earning overall Eventzee points.
The best way to achieve these badges is to join the free Weekend Photo Scavenger Hunts hosted by Eventzee each weekend. These worldwide hunts run from Thursdays to Sundays with clues going live at 3 PM MHQ time. Your photo will be either approved or rejected and you will earn points based on your submissions.
To join these hunts just find the Weekend Warriors event on the Eventzee in-app calendar and RSVP. If you’re interested in hosting your own Eventzee hunt please contacteventzee@munzee.com and we’ll get you set up with the right package!
Feb 1, 2016 | Hunt Types, TESTIMONIALS
Scavenger hunts have always been a fun way to interact with others and support camaraderie, but we’ve moved past the limitations of pen and paper. Eventzee takes scavenger hunts to a whole new level by supporting worldwide events and new ways to interact with players. While Eventzee makes it easy to host your own scavenger hunt, it’s up to YOU to make it memorable. So if you’re considering putting on your own, here’s a few tips to get you started.
Every student learns differently, but all can make use of the fun and unique learning experience of our Eventzee education program. Digital Scavenger Hunts combine effective use of technology with higher level questioning while engaging students in fun, creative ways.
Bring the classroom into the real world with Eventzee!
- Formative Assessment with instant feedback for teachers.
- Engages students in making real world connections to curriculum.
- Creates active learners.
Totally customizable, Eventzee combines creativity with active learning through scavenger hunts. Check out what people are saying about Eventzee!
Denton ISD | Event: Denton TIA “Technology In Action” Conference
Eventzee offered us another dimension of engagement with attendees at our technology conference. We were able to drive traffic to specific areas of focus at our conference, enhancing the experience for everyone involved.
We were also able to, through the use of photo scavenger hunts, gamify self-reflection about new learning by encouraging attendees to share their learning through pictures. That was a huge game-changer for some of our attendees.
– Ross Garison, Coordinator of Instructional Technology @ Denton ISD
Prosper ISD | Event: Multiple Events
Eventzee has been used in our 7th/8th grade ELAR classes as a semester review and to learn about an author’s life. It has also been used by our middle school Photojournalism classes as they learn about the different photo composition techniques.
Our Fashion Design and Marketing teacher used it on a field trip to North Park Mall to assess student’s learning in a real world environment. A 4th grade math teacher took his kids on a Division Hunt. 8th grade history used it to assess the understanding of the 7 principles of our Constitution. 7th grade ELAR took her kids on a mythology hunt.
Kids are engaged in higher level thinking skills as they connect their learning to real world examples. Teachers can provide instant feedback. It is a great formative assessment tool. Teachers can differentiate amount student or group submissions based on level of understanding.
– Michelle Phillips, M. Ed. Instructional Technology Specialist @ Reynolds Middle School, Prosper ISD
Region 10 | Event: 21st Annual Region 10 Technology Conference
The Eventzee Crew helped run the event since we had over 500 participants at the conference. They were an awesome crew with their fun, bright suits and amazing personalities! Our goal for this event was for our participants (Educators in the Region 10 ESC area in Texas) to have some fun mixed in with their full day of learning and for them to see how this type of technology integration could be used in the classroom.
From the feedback we received, many districts determined that Eventzee was something they could take back to their students and use in the classroom. Eventzee is a wonderful tool to use in both the classroom as well as a professional learning environment. Two thumbs up!!
– Lori Aden, Ed. D. Region 10 Distance Learning Consultant
Now that you have some ideas about how to start your Eventzee scavenger hunt, go out and make it happen! If you’re interested in hosting an Eventzee event, sponsoring an official Eventzee photo hunt or just curious about what we can do reach out to us at eventzee@munzee.com.
Jan 28, 2016 | Announcements, Weekly Hunt
Eventzee is turning 1 year old and YOU’RE INVITED! A year has come and gone and things have changed so much. We’re hosting an Eventzee themed birthday scavenger hunt in celebration of the milestone and in lieu of our Weekend Warriors hunt.
Two of our clues this week require you to download and print out a file. You can find those file below:
Flat Bob Printout
Eventzee Flyer
- #ThrowBackThursday – Scroll through your gallery and take a photo of the very first Eventzee photo you ever took!
- Birthday Suit – No, not THAT kind of birthday suit. Dress Flat Bob in his best attire- it’s a big day for him! You can find the Flat Bob design on the Eventzee blog.
- Cards Made With Care – Make Eventzee a birthday card!
- Cheers! – Raise a glass of your favorite beverage to a successful first year!
- Have Your Cake, And Eat It To – Last week it was pie, this week it’s cake. We probably need to cut back on the baked goods, but oh well! Take a photo of a birthday cake with blue icing.
- Logo Logistics – Recreate the Eventzee logo using random household items. Be creative, so no paint, drawings, printouts etc.
- Make A Wish! – Blow out a candle and make a wish!
- Midas Touch – Every week our players go for gold, but let’s get a little literal. Take a photo of something gold!
- One For The Money – It’s our 1st birthday so find the number “1” somewhere in public. A sign, license plate, address, whatever. It just has to be in public.
- Origami – The traditional gift on a 1st anniversary is paper, so create something spectacular!
- Party Animals – Take a photo representing one of the Party Animals. Either a flamingo, serpent or giraffe.
- Party Place – Take a photo at a location or business that you might celebrate a birthday at. Make sure the name/type of business is written somewhere in the photo.
- SURPRISE! – If you were to throw a surprise party, where would you hide?
- Snap Shot – Take a photo of a camera that uses film.
- Spread The Word… Some More! – Print out the Eventzee flyer and place it in a local coffee shop, bulletin board, etc. Hey it’s our birthday, what’s wrong with a little publicity? You can find the flyer printout on the Eventzee blog.
Jan 26, 2016 | Announcements, Weekly Hunt
Scan this code with the Eventzee app to join!
SURPRISE! A year ago today (January 26, 2015) we held our first public photo scavenger hunt! Things have certainly changed a lot since then, but what better way to kickoff our birthday week than to recreate our first hunt!
The clues you’ll see (a whopping 46 clues- What were we thinking?!) are the exact same clues we released a year ago today. Although back then we released new clues each day, this time we’re releasing all of the clues at once and you’ll have all month to submit the photos.
You’ll have through Tuesday February 23rd at 12 PM CST to submit clues for this hunt.
Those who participate (have at least one photo approved) will get a unique retro Eventzee badge featuring the initial logo design we were going to use. Like we said earlier, a lot has changed since we first thought up Eventzee- including the logo. Back then QR code scavenger hunts were going to be the main focus of Eventzee, thus the QR based calendar image.
The original Eventzee logo design.
The top 3 winners will also be awarded gift cards to the new Munzee inc. store where you can buy some sweet Eventzee apparel as well as a everything for Munzee, Runzee and Wallabee. Good luck and prepare for a busy week! Our Weekend Warriors 45 hunt will go on as planned as well!
Clues 1-46:
- Tower of Books: Arrange a stack of books from top to bottom with words in the title to say “I love this photo scavenger hunt”.
- Black and White: Find a black automobile parked next to a white automobile
- Water Bottle Bowling: Setup 10 bottles of water as if they were bowling pins (in correct shape)
- Fly your Flag: 3 or more flags on flagpoles next to each other
- Fish Eyes: Clear picture of more than 10 fish with #eventzee included in the picture
- 2 Bald Men: 2 bald men engaged in conversation
- Up in the sky: It’s a bird or a plane
- Movie: Go to the local theater/cinema and take a pic of an upcoming movie poster
- Good Fortune: Open a fortune cookie and share your good fortune with us. Must show cookie, fortune, and write Eventzee on fortune.
- Millennium Coin: Find a coin from the year 2000
- Historical: Picture of a historical marker or building built before 1900.
- Going Postal: Envelope addressed to Eventzee Headquarters
- Grafitti: Find some local spray paint “art”. *DO NOT CREATE YOUR OWN*
- Cassette Tape: Do you still listen to cassettes? Show us your favorite.
- Breakfast Food: On a plate or in a bowl? Show us your breakfast.
- Mind your business: Any business card
- Who is that masked man? Selfie wearing a mask
- Good sport: Balance 3 pieces of sporting equipment on your hand
- Bobble Head: Picture of a bobble head figure
- Twinkle Twinkle: Something star shaped (not hand drawn)
- Stained Glass: Picture of building with stained glass
- Bill: Picture of a person standing on a bench holding a bill
- Light a candle:
- Foodie Magazine Day: Picture of a food magazine cover with #eventzee note on it
- Spread the word: Picture of your screen of you spreading the word on social media about #Eventzee (private group posts not allowed)
- What about Bob? Photo of a man with a beard and a hat on backward
- Superhero Action Figure:
- Bottle of soda:
- Take out menu: Menu from a restaurant with delivery service
- Dear Diary: Today I started playing a new game…
- Macaroni Art: What can you create with macaroni? Include #eventzee somewhere in the picture.
- In the Shadows: Shadow puppets are good friends.
- Sleeping Cat: Bonus points for wearing a hat
- Musical: Play a musical instrument
- Toner: We need a spare toner cartridge.
- Water Balloon Fight: Take a picture of a full water balloon
- Hour: Find an analog clock that shows the time with the long hand pointing at 12
- Country Colors: Represent Your Country! Take a picture of somebody wearing the colors of your country.
- Blue Light Special: Where can you find a blue light that’s turned on?
- Old School Gamer: Take a picture of a video game console that came out BEFORE the year 2000. Include a piece of paper that says #throwbackthursday
- Checkmate
- Royal Flush
- Finger ‘stache
- Prehistoric
- Medieval
- License Plate: with “Z” included (must be on automobile)
Jan 22, 2016 | Announcements, Hunt Tips
Scavenger hunts have always been a fun way to interact with others and support camaraderie, but we’ve moved past the limitations of pen and paper. Eventzee takes scavenger hunts to a whole new level by supporting worldwide events and new ways to interact with players. While Eventzee makes it easy to host your own scavenger hunt, it’s up to YOU to make it memorable. So if you’re considering putting on your own, here’s a few tips to get you started.
Although Eventzee is great for conferences, get-togethers and training sessions, scavenger hunts can also be great for long term marketing, loyalty programs and more. Whether you want to set up a historical tour in your hometown, partner with other businesses for a discount program or simply offer an ongoing activity for customers, we’ve got you covered.
Long term scavenger hunts, often taking place over a month or throughout a season, can require a bit more setup and upkeep. If you choose to use a scavenger hunt for long term use, here are a couple things to consider when setting the hunt up.
Who?
Is this an educational hunt for young adults to learn more about their environment? Is it a joint pub crawl between various bars in your area? As with all marketing it’s important to know which demographic you are aiming for and plan accordingly. If your intent is to educate children, then they will need their parents’ devices to play. If this is more of a long running social engagement for young adults, you will need to advertise in the correct places. Knowing your audience will not only help when marketing, but can also be vital to your planning process.
What?
Eventzee has a wide variety of features that can be useful in long term hunts. QR Codes can be tied to quizzes or messages so that upon scanning players can learn about the history of a business, trivia, etc. You can also tag each of your QR clues to a GPS location to view a map of all locations within the hunt. Photo clues are fun, but with long term hunts you might want to make use of Eventzee’s automatic approval feature so you don’t have a monthlong backlog of photos to approve. A long term photo hunt could also make use of gallery slideshows for a fun collection of customer photos to be displayed on a monitor.
When?
The length of your scavenger hunt depends on what you hope to accomplish. If you want to encourage customers to come back weekly or daily to take part in new clues, then you will need to keep the hunt accessible during store hours only. If you want to host a historical tour of buildings, you will need to have the QR codes displayed in a easy to find public area so people can play at anytime of day. You also don’t want a hunt to last too long and risk losing interest of players so remember to keep things fresh.
Where?
Long term hunts can be used in a variety of ways, most commonly these types of hunts use multiple locations around your town or city. This is beneficial especially for tourism groups or community outreach organizations to drive traffic to significant areas. Groups of small businesses looking to support one another can also make great use of Eventzee to drive customers to shopping areas by offering discounts to people playing the scavenger hunt. A single business could also find benefit from a long term hunt by releasing new clues at different days to encourage repeat business.
Why?
Sure, it seems like a simple enough question, but why exactly do you want to host a long term event over a quick one or two day event? What are you hoping to accomplish? It’s important to figure out why a long term hunt would be ideal so you know what your end goal is. If you want to build business loyalty then your clues need to reflect that. If you want to use Eventzee as a tool for gathering marketing and social media materials like photos, then plan out the photos you ideally want and implement them in your clue descriptions. We want you to make the most of our product, so it’s important that we help you achieve your goals in the most successful way possible.
How?
How can you go about setting up your own longterm scavenger hunt? That’s the easy part. Contact us today! We can answer more of your questions, set you up with a demo and more. Email us at eventzee@munzee.com to find out more.
Now that you have some ideas about how to start your Eventzee scavenger hunt, go out and make it happen! If you’re interested in hosting an Eventzee event, sponsoring an official Eventzee photo hunt or just curious about what we can do, check out www.eventzeeapp.com.
