2/3/12 Facilitation

   This week in class we got down to business. We talked about the basics of facilitating activities. A lot of it was review of things I have learned in previous classes, but we went much more in depth on the beginning stages of planning activities. 

   Our in class group project this week was to take two activities and do an activity analysis and a task analysis for each. My group worked on basketball and bicycling. We broke down the steps of how to learn to ride a bike and prepare yourself for biking. We did the same for basketball. Then we discussed limitations for each and how you could make each adaptable for different injuries. We decided that basketball was more easily adaptable because bicycles can be expensive and potentially dangerous with some people or populations. Other groups did the same thing for painting, journals, and kayaks. The entire class discussed the challenges and benefits of doing different activities with different populations. It really stressed the importance to me of how well you need to know the clients you are working with and how well prepared you need to be for activities.

   We also got to spend some time in our groups thinking about our flash-mob. We had to think about adaptability for that as well. We want it to be simple enough that everyone can learn it and have fun doing it. We also have to consider where we are performing and what we will perform to. I am hoping for an upbeat song that everyone who sees us will recognize and be able to sing along to. I would like to perform somewhere on campus so our classmates can see what we've been working on. For now we'll just have to wait and see.