Project Abstract
The Business & Finance unit of the Basic Camp Director’s Course (BCDC) has, until now, been delivered exclusively in a week-long training conference. The course is offered four times per year, but there is always a waiting list for sessions. Because the logistics and expense of a week-long training session are increasingly challenging, Dr. Gwynn Powell , a member of the ACA National Board of Directors, has asked to create an online version of the unit.
We will develop this module as a prototype that the ACA can then use to develop similar online versions of the other 13 units in the training session.
Client Profile
The client for our project is The American Camp Association as represented by Dr. Gwynn Powell and Kat Shreve. Dr. Powell is an Associate Professor in the Recreation and Leisure Studies Department in the College of Education at The University of Georgia. She is also a volunteer for the American Camp Association, specializing in curriculum development and research application. She will serve as the liaison between Genesis Learning and the American Camp Association. Ms. Shreve is an ACA national staff member with nationwide responsibility for training. She will provide content and ongoing input to help us design this unit in a way that will be most practical for the organization.
The ACA Web site describes the organization as follows:
“The American Camp Association (formerly known as the American Camping Association) is a community of camp professionals who, for nearly 100 years, have joined together to share our knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs. Because of our diverse 7,000 plus membership and exceptional programs, children and adults have the opportunity to learn powerful lessons in community, character-building, skill development, and healthy living — lessons that can be learned nowhere else.
“As a leading authority in child development, the ACA works to preserve, promote, and improve the camp experience. Our association is committed to helping our members and all camps provide:
• Camp communities committed to a safe, nurturing environment
• Caring, competent adult role models
• Healthy, developmentally-appropriate experiences
• Service to the community and the natural world
• Opportunities for leadership and personal growth
• Discovery, experiential education, and learning opportunities
• Excellence and continuous self-improvement “
(
http://www.acacamps.org/about/profile.php)
Adapted with permission from
http://www.nov8tivedesigns.com/
We're up and rolling. Looking back I'm really pleased with all we have accomplished this week. We have come up with our name, set up the blog and established our communication and site management protocols. Roman and Donna are working on our logo. We've posted the info for the job fair and signed up our first 6200 student: Pete Roach will work with us on editing and proofreading.
I met with our client, Dr. Gwynn Powell before our group meeting on Wimba Tuesday evening. She is meeting with us tonight in the last hour of Studio. Melinda has retrieved the ACA's goals and objectives for the course and scanned in the printed materials for us. We are well on the way to getting our brains around what we'll be working with.
We also took a look at key dates and upcoming deliverables. Roman and Donna are working on a project scope document and Radcliffe is taking the lead on the needs assessment. Some things, like demographics and client profile will be identical to those in innov8tive designs' work last semester, so we'll credit them properly and adapt that info for our project. No sense re-inventing the wheel!
By the beginning of next week, we'll have our project management system set up and be well on our way on this terrific project!
Myra--Project Manager
