Outdoor Education

NOLS: Using Leadership Skills In Everyday Life

Outdoor Ed — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:48:47 GMT

Janeen Hutchins, Field Staffing Director, and John Kanengieter, Director for Leadership, discuss how the NOLS leadership skills learned in the backcountry transfer to the front country.

WHY - a film by Corey Rich

Outdoor Ed — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:54:04 GMT

WHY is a beautifully shot video that explores the motivations behind outdoor adventure through interviews with climber Alex Honnold, mountain biker Rebecca Rusch and kayaker Dane Jackson.

The film was shot as a project showing the features of the Nikon D4 SLR

NOLS Expedition Leadership: Communication and Feedback

Outdoor Ed — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:52 GMT

Jamie O'Donnell, NOLS instructor and program supervisor and John Kanengieter, NOLS Director for Leadership talk about the importance of communication and feedback. This is an important aspect of any successful expedition and can be transfered of other areas of life as well. Sit back and enjoy this third episode of a 3-part series of the NOLS Podcast!

Colorado Program uses Adventure to Allows Wounded Vets to Recover One Step at a Time

Outdoor Ed — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:02:13 GMT

This PBS News piece describes the incredible impact of LifeQuest Transitions a program bringing wounded vets to the outdoors and outdoor adventure. Both a physical therapy and a psychological therapy program designed to build effective bridges back from war. You can read the detailed transcript of the piece at PBS.org and see more interviews online at PBS and at LifeQuest. You can also see an interview with one of the LifeQuest soldiers on YouTube.

TED: Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes

Outdoor Ed — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:33:08 GMT

Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes.

A farm kid from Wisconsin, Diana Laufenberg set out for Kansas 11 years ago and then onto Arizona 8 years ago. She has taught all grade levels from 7-12 in Social Studies. Laufenberg’s latest adventure finds her at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. SLA, one of Philadelphia’s newer high schools, in partnership with the Franklin Institute. The approach is both old and new.

SLA is an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on 21st-century learning. SLA provides a rigorous, college-preparatory curriculum with a focus on science, technology, mathematics and entrepreneurship. Students at SLA learn in a project-based environment where the core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation and reflection are emphasized in all classes.

TED: Shimon Schocken's rides of hope

Outdoor Ed — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:36:33 GMT

Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. For all those working with adjudicated yout on in therapeutic adventure, Shimon's talk is a moving testament to the power of adventure.

Shimon Schocken is the IDB Professor of Information Technologies and founding dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Israel. After 10 years at NYU, he returned to his home country to help begin the IDC at Herzliya -- Israel’s first private and non–profit university. In 2005, along with Noam Nisan, he co-wrote one of today’s bestselling works on building computers, The Elements of Computing Systems. He is also the creator of the Visual Computer (Vic), an interactive simulation of a model digital computer that allows users a unique, hands-on understanding of the modern computer’s most fundamental elements. Schocken embraces his public role as an educator. Within his field, he serves as chairman of the Computer Science Education committee in the Israeli Ministry of Education.

Patagonia Oceans As Wilderness- Synthetic Seas

Outdoor Ed — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:55:53 GMT

As part of our Oceans as Wilderness campaign, we present one of four video shorts from "Research Clips" a DVD by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. "Synthetic Sea" investigates the effects of plastic pollution in our oceans.

Please visit www.algalita.org for more information or to order the full DVD.

Visit www.patagonia.com to learn more about Oceans as Wilderness

Outward Bound Professional

Outdoor Ed — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:39:52 GMT

Specializing in team and leadership development, Outward Bound Professional draws from more then 37 years of experience working with local, national and global businesses to unleash the power of people. North Carolina Outward Bound also has more than 15 years of providing results-oriented programs for business groups ranging from front-line supervisors to senior executives.

Princeton University Outdoor Action Sustainability Initiative

Outdoor Ed — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:05:57 GMT

This video from the Communications Office at Princeton University follows backpacking and climbing group G17 with leaders Emily Sung '11 and Clay Puryear '09 during the September 2008 Outdoor Action Frosh Trip for incoming freshmen. The video illustrates the impact of the Outdoor Action Sustainability Initiative on students' attitudes.

You can read the cover story "Training on trail may bring greener outlooks to campus" from the Princeton Weekly Bulletin and download a PDF of the Outdoor Action Sustainability Guide for use in your program.

Get 'em Outside

Laura Lipscomb — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:41:21 GMT

http://www.nclicoalition.org to increase environmental education opportunities at your school. Celebrating environmental education and its impact on children's learning, health and leadership.

Get 'em Outside: Supporting the No Child Left Inside Bill

Outdoor Ed — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:55:43 GMT

http://www.nclicoalition.org to increase environmental education opportunities at your school. Celebrating environmental education and its impact on children's learning, health and leadership.