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Outdoor Education General

New Book: Outdoor Program Administration: Principles and Practices

Posted over 1 year ago

by Rick Curtis
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A new book has just come out from Human Kinetics Publishing from the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE) that adds to the growing list of text books that focus on outdoor education and is a great reference title for any professional's...
Conferences

AORE 2008 Conference - A Climate for Change, San Diego, CA: October 30-November 1st, 2008

Posted over 5 years ago

by Outdoor Ed
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Registration Now Available The backbone of the AORE conference is the high quality presentations made by outdoor recreation and industry professionals and students. Included below are the workshops currently scheduled to be offered at the AORE 2008 conference...
GREENFIRE

An Inconvenient Education: Convocation Address at Earlham College

Posted over 3 years ago

by Jay Roberts
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Text of a talk given at Earlham College, Sept. 1st, 2010 for a convocation on an interdisciplinary approach to Climate Change. INTRODUCTION In the few minutes I have, I’d like to speak a bit about the role education plays in the climate change debate...
Facilitator's Corner

Don’t Let Regulations Become the Program by Jim Grout

Posted over 5 years ago

by Chris Ortiz
- 3 Comments
Below is an article by High 5 's own Jim Grout. Jim brings a unique perspective, having been a member of the committee that drafted the ACCT Practitioner Certification Standards and his 28 years in the field. Jim offers up a much needed reminder of...
GREENFIRE

Why you should care about "twittering"

Posted over 4 years ago

by Jay Roberts
- 3 Comments
Twitter? Tweeting? Twibes? Come on, you say, isn't all that stuff ridiculous? No, it isn't. Used in certain ways, twittering is an amazing tool that allows you to "map the discourse" of any particular topic or field that you may be interested...
Wilderness Medicine

Building a Wilderness First Aid Kit

Posted 9 months ago

by Julie Anderson
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Re-posted with permission from Wilderness Medical Associates International. Walking through the first aid aisle at your local outfitter store can be overwhelming. While there are many excellent prepared kits on the market, often enthusiasts choose to...
Outdoor Education General

Running 'Mega' Programs - Part 3

Posted over 4 years ago

by Outdoor Ed
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Following up on the two previous Blogs on running Mega Programs. I've updated the MindManager Map and have published it as a PDF file so that anyone developing a large program can see all of the details of how we plan one of the largest college wilderness...
Outdoor Education General

Economy hits outdoor print publications

Posted over 5 years ago

by Rick Curtis
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Print publication is one of the most challenging businesses out there. You are in a constant push to write and edit content, find and keep subcribers, and find advertisers. Two small but well-respected niche print publications have stopped publishing...
Wilderness Medicine

Pain Management in Children for Broken Bones

Posted over 3 years ago

by Paul Auerbach
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by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Pain management is a hot topic in medicine in general and certainly in medicine for the outdoors. Injuries in particular, and many illnesses, cause pain, which in...
Wilderness Medicine

Treating Severe Heatstroke with an External Cooling System

Posted 10 months ago

by Paul Auerbach
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by Paul Auerbach Heatstroke is a life-threatening emergency. Therapeutic cooling measures need to be undertaken rapidly in order to prevent the catastrophic organ failure associated with markedly elevated body temperature. The general dictum is to cool...
GREENFIRE

Worse Case Scenarios: The Economic Crisis and Outdoor Education

Posted over 5 years ago

by Jay Roberts
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I was watching Jim Cramer of "Mad Money" on CNBC last night and his analysis of the economic crisis was striking. He said that we ought to be prepared for 2-4 years of severe recession with high unemployment and significant reductions in flexible...
Wilderness Medicine

Bacterial Diarrhea

Posted over 3 years ago

by Paul Auerbach
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by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Foodborne bacterial diarrhea is a common problem of backpackers, kayakers, divers - of anyone who ventures into the outdoors and is therefore associated with ingestion...
Wilderness Medicine

Rattlesnake Bite Tale

Posted over 4 years ago

by Tod Schimelpfenig
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There is an article on the front page of the May 22, 2009 Casper Star Tribune, Wyoming's main newspaper. The gist of the tale is a dog bitten on the nose by a rattlesnake. It's owner sucks “venom” from the wound with his mouth, then...
Wilderness Medicine

Epinephrine Roundtable

Posted over 5 years ago

by Tod Schimelpfenig
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Last evening I sat on a roundtable discussion on the the use of epinephrine in the backcountry at the 25th Anniversary and Annual Meeting of the Wilderness Medical Society. Dave Johnson MD from Wilderness Medical Associates was the initiative on this...
Guest Blog

How Do You Quantify Experiential Moments?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Scott
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As a leader here at Drug Demand Reduction I am constantly being asked to validate our educational programs. As a prior fiscal officer I am knowledgeable of the ties our spreadsheets and numbers have that show the effectiveness of our programs on our Federal...
Outdoor Education General

Self Esteem and Mountaineering

Posted over 4 years ago

by Outdoor Ed
- 2 Comments
by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine , published by the Wilderness Medical Society , always has a number of very interesting articles of significance...
Wilderness Medicine

Frozen Autoinjectors and Armpits

Posted over 3 years ago

by Tod Schimelpfenig
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I recently exchanged emails with a fellow who asked if it was acceptable to freeze the auto-injector in his first aid kit. I told him of course not, you may not have time to thaw the medication. Now curious, I intentionally froze four expired EpiPens®...
GREENFIRE

Is "Smart" the new "Green"?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Jay Roberts
- 4 Comments
Watching and listening to "the discourse" on environmentalism in the popular press has been fascinating over the last five years. The sheer number of descriptors used to try to "brand" environmentalism for the 21st century seem to...
Facilitator's Corner

Why does your summer camp(or school, college, etc.) have a challenge course?

Posted over 5 years ago

by Chris Ortiz
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After finishing a whirlwind of camp trainings to kick off the summer, I thought maybe I could put together a top 10 list of tips for the summer challenge course program. I am realizing that this may be a bit off the mark timing wise as the programs are...
Outdoor Education General

Children & Nature Network releases Natural Leaders Network Toolkit

Posted over 3 years ago

by Outdoor Ed
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The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) was created to encourage and support the people and organizations working nationally and internationally to reconnect children with nature. The network provides a critical link between researchers and individuals...
Wilderness Medicine

iPhone Medical Apps: TickDoctor

Posted over 4 years ago

by Paul Auerbach
- 0 Comments
by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Dr. Jeremy Joslin is a wilderness medicine aficionado and has without question posted the greatest number of intelligent and useful comments to posts at this blog...
Wilderness Medicine

Helmets for Active Sports

Posted over 4 years ago

by Paul Auerbach
- 2 Comments
by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported an analysis of motorcycle helmet use in fatal crashes. What was discovered is not surprising - namely,...
Wilderness Medicine

Are Sunscreens Effective?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Paul Auerbach
- 0 Comments
by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Nearly a year ago, there was a news item that suggested that many sunscreens are ineffective, despite manufacturers' claims to the contrary. As best I can tell...
GREENFIRE

Jumping the Railing: Is Outdoor Education Losing Its Sense Of Adventure?

Posted over 5 years ago

by Jay Roberts
- 1 Comments
I recently returned from leading a semester program to New Zealand for college students interested in environmental studies. As part of the semester, we travelled with a guide to Arthur's Pass National Park on the South Island to learn more about...
Wilderness Medicine

Lightning Safety Awareness

Posted over 1 year ago

by Paul Auerbach
- 0 Comments
by Paul Auerbach This post relates information learned in a recent issue (Volume 22, Number 3, 2011) of the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine , published by the Wilderness Medical Society. In an article entitled “Lightning Safety Awareness...

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