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David P. Dillard
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Wilderdom
Wilderdom
<http://www.wilderdom.com/>
Website Table of Contents
Projects
Tools for Human-Environment Transformation
Index to Group Activities & Games
Fun, educational, adventure activities
The Wilderdom Store
Gear, books & resources for team building & group games
Outdoor Education Daily
Global news for outdoor education & related fields
Outdoor Education Research & Evaluation Center
On-line knowledge about outdoor education
Experiential Learning
Theory & practice of experiential education
Quotes
Life, wilderness, inspiration, education
What is Wilderdom?
Wilderdom refers to "natural living". Anyone can experience Wilderdom by
living in conjunction with nature.
Why this website?
The internet is the only technological tool which has a good chance of
saving the planet.
Explore Wilderdom
Human <-> nature principles, stories & images
Wilderdom explores human-nature relations and seeks sustainable solutions
to modern-living.
Principles
Vignettes
WilderZone
Living Center
WilderLinks
James Neill
Statistics
Dropping Knowledge
112 of the world's 'wisest' are coming together around the world's largest
table, with 112 cameras set up to record each of their answers to 1000
questions. The multimedia and text content will be copyleft and made
available for all to read and discuss.
Why schools should use exclusively free software
Richard Stallman, champion of the free software movement, presents a
powerful social argument for why real education requires that we use free
and open source software.
All Is One
A hip and groovy wombat explains it like it is - we are interconnected,
there is only one planet (for now), so we need to learn how to share and
get along. Funky message for young & old. 1.4MB SWF, 30 secs.
Knowledge Navigator
Made by Apple in 1987, this is a classic and inspiring vision of academia
and technology fusing for the 21st century. Believe it or not, we now
have all these tools - its just a matter of a few tweaks in conceptual
thinking to enact the potential.
World Facts
History of the universe & human activity on Earth
homo sapiens emerged ~70,000 years ago through a series of glacial epochs
(ice ages)
there are currently ~6.2 billion people
human population is growing by ~25 million / year
Index to Group Activities, Games, Exercises & Initiatives
Categories (in order of popularity)
<http://www.wilderdom.com/games/>
Team building activities & exercises
Icebreakers, warmups, & energizers
Group games for fun
Ideas for camp activities & games
Name games & get to know each other
Trust-building activities
Psychological self-awareness exercises
Environmental education games
Physical activities for groups
Multicultural, cross-cultural & intercultural
Peace education experiential activities
Indigenous games & activities
Ropes Courses (Rope Challenge Courses)
Most popular games
Zoom & Re-Zoom
Helium Stick
Toxic Waste
Balloon Games
Survival Scenarios
Mine Field
Fear in a Hat
Locus of Control
Group Mandala
Great Egg Drop
Warp Speed
Multi-Way Tug-of-War
Group Juggle
Human Knot
Create Your Own Group Activity
Wink
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About One Another
Chair Game
Ha-ha
Gotchya! (Grab the Finger)
Write Your Own Eulogy
The Story of Your Name
Giants, Wizards, Elves
Animal Sounds
Illusions
Slice 'n Dice
Wobbly Broomstick
Willow in the Wind
People Map
Cocktail Party
Eating Bugs
Trust Lean
Running Free
Sensual Awareness Inventory
Name Pantomime
Secret Smells
Solo Hour in Nature
Hug-A-Tree
Natural Orchestra
eGroup postings
Re: Games: Facilitating and activity for job interview over webcam
Facilitating and activity for job interview over webcam
Re: Games: Re: A team activity for Volunteer groups
Re: Games: A team activity for Volunteer groups
A team activity for Volunteer groups
Activity request
Lisa Caines Ogini is out of the office.
Group game resources
About this site
Introduction to group games
Group-dynamic games (Wikipedia)
Mega-list of 2000+ games
Articles about games
Books about games
Game curricula
Other game description sites
Recently added products
Onward Bound: The First 50 Years of Outward Bound Australia
50 More Ways to Use Your Noodle: Loads of Land and Water Games With Foam
Noodle Toys
50 Ways To Use Your Noodle: Loads of Land Games With Foam Noodle Toys
Raptor and Other Team Building Activities
Executive Marbles and Other Team Building Activities
Feeding the Zircon Gorilla and Other Team Building Activities
Beam Potpourri
Partner Straps
Midnight Crossing
Group Loop
Co-Oper Blanket Video
Co-Oper Band
Co-Oper Blanket
$5 Gift Certificate
Creating Healthy Habits: An Adventure Guide to Teaching Health and
Wellness
Adventure in Business: An IMMERSION Approach to Training and Consulting
Gold Nuggets: Readings for Experiential Education
Adventures in Peacemaking: A Conflict Resolution Activity Guide for
School-age Programs
No Props: Great Games with No Equipment
Exploring Islands of Healing: New Perspectives on Adventure Based
Counseling
Islands of Healing: A Guide to Adventure Based Counseling
Re-Zoom Kit
Mine Field
World Wisdom Cards
Recently added games
Dice Your Way to Multiple Futures
2 Truths & a Lie
Amoeba Race
Get To Know You Sociometric Questions
Hello in Different Languages
All Aboard!
World Meal
Mirror Image
Chicken Stretch
Seed->Flower Stretch
Have You Ever?
Solo Walk
Outdoor Education Daily
Global news for outdoor education & related fields
<http://www.wilderdom.com/news/oe.php>
Links
Global Environmental and Outdoor Education Council (GEOEC) - Teach Your
Curriculum Using Environmental Themes
Ken Gilbertson's Home
Jobs
Seasonal Assistant Education Coordinator
Antarctica Field Training Officer
News
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Nature programs' goal: No child left inside
A back-to-nature movement to reconnect children with the outdoors is
burgeoning nationwide. Programs, public and private, are starting or
expanding as research shows kids suffer health problems, including
obesity, from too much sedentary time indoors.
Groups aim to 'plant seeds' with kids
Third-grader Sabrina Aguilera didn't spend last Saturday morning watching
her usual cartoons. She tried something new: horseback riding. Sabrina, 9,
joined seven other inner-city kids who were learning how to ride at a
ranch.
Camp? Outside? Um, no thanks
As the National Park Service begins planning for its 100th birthday in
2016, the venerable agency has reason to wonder who will show up. By the
service's own reckoning, visits to national parks have been on a downward
slide for 10 years. Overnight stays fell 20% between 1995 and 2005, and
tent camping and backcountry camping each decreased nearly 24% during the
same period.
Breaking camp - BBC NEWS
The government has unveiled its latest idea to tackle anti-social youths,
but it is still a far cry from a utopian WWII experiment which placed them
in their own self-governing community in Essex.
New whitewater park concept takes hold with opening of North Carolina
facility
Nestled between two interstates 10 minutes from downtown Charlotte, N.C.,
the USNWC is a model in paradox, 300 acres of woodlands along the Catawba
River waterfront with its crown jewel presented in the form of a
four-channel cement canal. To Shipley, a three-time Olympic whitewater
kayaker and the designer of the artificial river, it is a model for the
future.
Experiential Learning
& Experiential Education
Philosophy, theory, practice & resources
<http://www.wilderdom.com/experiential/>
Introduction
What is experience?
What is experiential learning?
What is experiential education?
Who are experiential educators?
What is a teachable moment?
Studying experiential learning
Experiential Education Philosophy
What is empiricism?
What is radical empiricism?
Dewey's philosophy of education
Experiential education in schools
Teacher philosophies of education
Outdoor education philosophy
Experiential Learning Theory
12 reasons why experiential learning is effective
Experiential learning theory
(Carl Rogers)
Scale of experientiality
(Gibbons & Hopkins, 1980)
Psychology of play
Experiential Learning Cycles
Experiential learning cycles
(including Kolb's 4 stages)
Critique of Kolb's experiential learning theory
(Mirriam Webb, 2004)
Experiential Education Practice
Index to group games & activities
Peace & experiential education
Group development & dynamics
Group facilitation & processing
Outdoor Education Research & Evaluation Center
<http://www.wilderdom.com/research.php>
Site Information
Overview
Topics (Index)
Help
Blog
Outdoor Education
Introduction
Definitions
History
Philosophy
Theory
Research
Popular Topics
Adventure therapy
Camps & camping
Corporate adventure
Environmental education
Experiential learning
Extreme expeditions
Facilitation
Group dynamics
NOLS
Outward Bound
Peace education
Project Adventure
Risk & safety
Ropes courses
Schools
Team building
Wilderness
Updates (2002-2006)
More topics (index)
Resources
Jobs & careers
Expert people
Masters & PhD degrees
International
Lesson plans
Publications
Journals
Books
Theses
Online studies
Bibliographies
How to write and publish
Latest blog
Outdoor Recreation Industry Training Packages Unwrapped
Latest links
AEE Therapeutic Adventure Professional Group
The Therapeutic Adventure Professional Group is committed to the
development and promotion of adventure-based programming and the
principles of experiential education in therapeutic settings. We are also
committed to the professional development of our members and the
profession as a whole.
Wikipedia User:Reviewing (Roger Greenaway)
My name is Roger Greenaway. I live in the UK. My interests (on which I may
be able to contribute to Wikipedia) are experiential learning,
facilitating experiential learning and outdoor learning. I have carried
out research and written articles in these ar
Japanese man survives 3-week 'hibernation,' doctors say
TOKYO (AP) ? A man who went missing in western Japan survived in wintry
weather without food and water for over three weeks by falling into a
state of "hibernation," doctors said.
Constructionist learning - Wikipedia
Constructionism (in the context of learning) is the idea that people learn
effectively through making things. Constructionism is connected with
experiential learning and builds on some of the ideas of Jean Piaget.
T-Groups
In 1947, the National Training Laboratories Institute began in Bethel, ME.
They pioneered the use of T-groups (Laboratory Training) in which the
learners use here and now experience in the group, feedback among
participants and theory on human behavior to explore group process and
gain insights into themselves and others. The goal is to offer people
options for their behavior in groups. The T-group was a great training
innovation which provided the base for what we now know about team
building. This was a new method that would help leaders and managers
create a more humanistic, people serving system and allow leaders and
managers to see how their behavior actually affected others. There was a
strong value of concern for people and a desire to create systems that
took people's needs and feelings seriously.
Encounter Groups
In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a great deal of interest in encounter
and sensitivity training groups. In such forums, a group of people,
usually no fewer than 7 and rarely more than 20, get together with the aim
of shedding their ordinarily polite social masks and expressing their real
feelings. The group usually emphasizes verbal interaction, games, and
other activities that encourage open displays of approval, criticism,
affection, dislike, and even anger and tears, rather than the tact and
inhibition of emotional expression that ordinarily govern our social
behavior. The assumption in these groups is similar to that of
person-centered therapy: the individual will grow in a positive way by
resisting social restrictions and by interacting with others honestly and
openly.
Marathon Groups
Marathon groups use a group technique in which people meet for an
unusually long period of time ranging roughly anywhere from 6 to 48 hours.
An intense emotional atmosphere is created, defences are cut through,
feelings and impulses are reached which are inaccessible with other more
conventional methods. However, the method has two major drawbacks. First,
it can be easily abused by irresponsible therapists who use it to deal
with their own unresolved problems. Second, in cases when marathon groups
produce positive therapeutic effects in participants, such effects seem to
be only short lived. (Wolberg, 1977, 721-724). The explanation lies in the
condition required to achieve lasting psychic change. Breaking through the
defences is important, but only a first step. It has to be followed by the
individual or the group-as-a-whole working through the maladaptive
patterns, making the right links and finding new ways of relating,
thinking and being. In short, marathon groups can help to achieve the
first step. In order to be therapeutically effective they have to be
followed up by therapeutic working through.
Stephen R. Kellert Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Topics: Ecology, Ecosystems and Biodiversity; Social Ecology of
Conservation and Development; Urban Ecology and Environmental Design;
Water Science, Policy and Management Expertise: Biodiversity and Habitat;
Endangered Species; Land Use; National Parks; O
Exploring Participant Development Through Adventure-Based Programming: A
Model from the National Outdoor Leadership School
Outdoor Education Links
<http://www.wilderdom.com/information/other.html>
Outdoor Education Resource Websites
OutdoorEd.com
Association for Experiential Education
Active Reviewing -A-Z research links
Institute for Outdoor Learning
Institute for Outdoor Leadership & Education
Wilderness Education Association
European Institute of Outdoor Adventure Education & Experiential Learning
Adventure Therapy Links
Other Recommended Outdoor Education Links
AEE Discussion List - Archives
American Camping Association
American Nature Study Society
American Recreation Coalition
Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education
Association for Specialists in Group Work
Australian & New Zealand Outdoor Education Researchers Collective
Brathay Youth Development
Coalition for Education in the Outdoors
EETAP Resource Library
Environmental Education on the Internet
European Association for Experiential Education - Members & Friends
Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound
Kurt Hahn.org
Leave No Trace Outdoor Ethics
Leisure Information Network
Listserv archives of OUTRES - Outdoor research discussion list, UK
National Outdoor Book Awards
North American Association for Environmental Education
Outdoor Information Center - Charles University, Czech
Outdoor Recreation Research Information - Yu-Fai Leung
Research - Roger Greenaway
The Outdoor Directory, USA
The Outdoor Leaders Handbook: Activities, Information & Ideas
Tarrak.com Technologies - Simon Priest
Wilderness Information Network
WildernessTherapy.org - Michael Conner
Notes
Wayback gives access to The Outdoor Network archives
Although the Outdoor Network has closed, you can still access many of its
pages via the Wayback archive.
The Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
<http://www.archive.org>
The Outdoor Network closes its doors after 15 years
(Rick Curtis, 20 October, 2004, outdoored.com)
The Outdoor Network was the best known North American outdoor industry
information resource for 15 years. However, it lost focus through several
changes of ownership, a dwindling subscriber-base, and faced competition
from a variety of new websites. This article provides more detail about
the life and times of The Outdoor Network.
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