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Welcome to the Facilitator's corner
I am thrilled to be part of the Outdoor Ed community blog-o-sphere.  The intention is for this to be a place for facilitators to pop in and get some new ideas, points of view, activities, resources and whatever else the facilitators of this community need. 

As a trainer at High 5 Adventure, I am most familiar with issues in the realm of challenge courses but in varied career in outdoor education, I have been a trip leader, environmental educator, challenge course practitioner, program director, bird handler, director of education, carpenter, furniture builder...wait wait...to much information I think on my background, but the point is that I am hoping to bring my varied experience and dare I say expertise to the community. 

I will admit that at this point, I have no idea where this blog will go and that is exciting on some level. It also means I will need your help., direction and input. While I will be the primary contributor to this blog, I would welcome your submissions and will act as an editor in that respect.

My hope is that this blog will give you ideas, resources and maybe your occasional educational story of learning and humor. I also hope you will leave thinking... so I will finish this first post with this simple true or false question...

True or False: "This statement is False."

Did I mention I have found a recent interest in Philosophy...

IMG_1727 Chris Ortiz  


Posted 05-13-2008 2:21 AM by Chris Ortiz

Comments

akddrgroup wrote re: Welcome to the Facilitator's corner
on 05-28-2008 1:53 AM

Hey folks,

I must be missing something here.  This guy is the bomb and there are no threads relating to his blog.

Guess I'll just have to start something.  For anyone who knows Chris, he is a very talented jack of all trades and knows a little about facilitating too.  My group and I have been very lucky to been recipients of his skilled profession.  I look forward to reading more about his work and the work or should I say passion of other practitioners.

Chris Ortiz wrote re: Welcome to the Facilitator's corner
on 05-30-2008 2:29 PM

I really appreciate the comment. My first post of substance to come soon, I hope.  Busy season in the challenge course training world.

~Chris

The Adventure Center wrote re: Welcome to the Facilitator's corner
on 07-28-2008 3:19 PM

Chris,

  Thanks for your commitment to adventure and willingness to share from your expertise and experience. I'll be checking regularly for more posts from you to help improve my own facilitation at the Adventure Center. Also thanks for the comments on the Slinky Traverse on the High5 newsletter. Going from point to point is hard. I like the way you tweaked it.

Tom




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