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 getting things moving here. By tomorrow we will have posted our client profile, project abstract and our scope document. We have our task list, a draft of the timeline and our lead and back-up assignments. At this writing, we have two 6200 consultants, Pete Roach and Suhwa Lee, but are hoping our signing bonus (homemade cookies) will help us fill our other slots.
Our client (Gwynn Powell and Kat Shreve) met with us last week and we made great strides in getting us all up-to-speed on the project, the ACA’s needs and limitations and how this unit fits into the Basic Camp Director’s Course (BCDC) and into Dr. Powell’s class. We met last night via Horizon Wimba which seems to work well for us, since three of our five members live outside Athens.
In the coming week, we will complete the needs assessment and get client sign-off on that. We are also working to develop objectives for this unit. They follow closely those the ACA has established, so will just require a little adjustment in wording and scope for us to be able to work well with them.
