Keynote Presentations
Teach Where the Magic Happens
Field courses provide authentic, inspiring experiences for students because they spark students’ curiosity about the natural world, provide opportunities for them to closely observe nature, and can facilitate conversations with long-term residents, land managers, and indigenous people who know the landscape. However, some courses fail to deliver these positive outcomes because faculty neglect to cultivate a supportive learning environment in the field, ignore students’ concerns about risks, and inadvertently leave students less excited about the subject matter than before the course. Given that today's students have a limited number of opportunities to participate in field courses, we need each field experience to be as educational, inspiring, and transformative as possible. How do we teach better field courses?
This presentation will describe techniques that can be used to facilitate community development among students in the field. Anecdotes from field courses and practical tools described in the experiential, outdoor education literature will be shared to illustrate how to teach better field courses.
Field courses provide authentic, inspiring experiences for students because they spark students’ curiosity about the natural world, provide opportunities for them to closely observe nature, and can facilitate conversations with long-term residents, land managers, and indigenous people who know the landscape. However, some courses fail to deliver these positive outcomes because faculty neglect to cultivate a supportive learning environment in the field, ignore students’ concerns about risks, and inadvertently leave students less excited about the subject matter than before the course. Given that today's students have a limited number of opportunities to participate in field courses, we need each field experience to be as educational, inspiring, and transformative as possible. How do we teach better field courses?
This presentation will describe techniques that can be used to facilitate community development among students in the field. Anecdotes from field courses and practical tools described in the experiential, outdoor education literature will be shared to illustrate how to teach better field courses.
Workshops
Risk Management for Outdoor Educators and Program Managers
This full-day workshop will introduce field instructors, course directors, and program managers to a risk management process that can be used to identify, assess, manage, and review the risks that students face in outdoor education programs. This hands-on workshop will use a combination of lecture, video, scenarios, discussions, and practical sessions to teach participants to be better course designers and risk managers. The workshop will also provide a process that participants can use to assess how they manage risk in their own field programs and set priorities for improvement.
In addition to the in-person workshop, participants will gain free access to RM101: Introduction to Risk Management Online ($95 value).
This full-day workshop will introduce field instructors, course directors, and program managers to a risk management process that can be used to identify, assess, manage, and review the risks that students face in outdoor education programs. This hands-on workshop will use a combination of lecture, video, scenarios, discussions, and practical sessions to teach participants to be better course designers and risk managers. The workshop will also provide a process that participants can use to assess how they manage risk in their own field programs and set priorities for improvement.
In addition to the in-person workshop, participants will gain free access to RM101: Introduction to Risk Management Online ($95 value).
Visual Skills for Educators and Program Leaders
Educate Wild! uses creative, artistic, visually-engaging communication methods to facilitate conversations, inspire out-of-the-box solutions, and develop systems that improve program efficiency. In an attempt to meet the needs of the broader community, Angie Moline is now offering the following workshops through Moline Creative:
Educate Wild! uses creative, artistic, visually-engaging communication methods to facilitate conversations, inspire out-of-the-box solutions, and develop systems that improve program efficiency. In an attempt to meet the needs of the broader community, Angie Moline is now offering the following workshops through Moline Creative:
- Visual Communication - Improve your ability to communicate with students, colleagues, clients, and collaborators by learning the fundamentals of visual communication. Draw out your ideas using mind maps, visual templates, and easy-to-draw icons during this workshop.
- Visual Storytelling - The average PowerPoint slide has 75 words on it, yet an audience can only read keywords while they listen to a speaker. Don't overwhelm your audience! Learn how to use simple visuals to support, rather than detract from, multi-media presentations.
- Visual Note-taking - Learn to take visual notes by using doodles, keywords, and info maps to diagram what you hear in meetings, class lectures, and webinars. Visual note-taking allows you to capture key points of a conversation without getting lost in the details
Outdoor Program Design & Consulting
Directors of field-based experiential education programs face a unique set of challenges - from hiring, mentoring, and supporting staff to providing high quality programming on a tight budget - and it can be lonely at the top! Friends, family, and colleagues provide a great support network, but sometimes you want to talk to someone who has been there and understands what you are going through.
Dr. Angie Moline works with field program directors and their staff to paint a vision for your program, brainstorm solutions to get there, and trouble shoot the hiccups that you have along the way. Email angie (at) educatewild.com to learn more!
Dr. Angie Moline works with field program directors and their staff to paint a vision for your program, brainstorm solutions to get there, and trouble shoot the hiccups that you have along the way. Email angie (at) educatewild.com to learn more!
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