Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike Education/Clinic curriculum?

8 Oct 2008

      Hi Drew,
First, I should give credit to my wife Christine Bourgeois.  She's
developing the Bici Centro curriculum and found the Bikes Not Bombs
manual with these steps:

http://http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/
"Youth" tab in upper left links to http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/youth
Under "Earn-A-Bike" section, "Find Out More!" links to

http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/EarnABike
I've been forwarding this thread to Christine.  She just signed up for
ThinkTank to participate herself.  Josh's suggestion to split off
education issues in a separate list/board/whatever would likely keep
her (and others?) engaged longer.  However, splitting off sub-topics
might prove to be a hassle for administrators and subscribers.
dave
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:37 PM, John Gatlin johngatlin@gmail.com wrote:
...
Dave,
I stand corrected. However, how do you get to that page from their main
site? Perhaps their reorganization of the website confused me. Anyway, it's
an excellent resource that ought to be in any shop's files. Thanks for
finding it.
Drew
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Dave Bourgeois stdaveb@gmail.com wrote:
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Bikes Not Bombs is still posting the manual here:
http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/EarnABike
Note this just above the download links:
"We make our training manual available for people wanting to run youth
bicycle programs in other places. This is the mechanics manual we use
to train the volunteers who will become assistant teachers in
Earn-A-Bike."
I'm guessing BNB won't get upset if we use their copyrighted manual to
teach adults as well as youth.
Dave Bourgeois
Bici Centro
Santa Barbara, CA
http://www.bicicentro.org/
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:50 PM, John Gatlin johngatlin@gmail.com wrote:
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Hey all,
Along the line of instructor sheets, I was able to obtain a copy of Bike
Not
Bombs' Instructor Training Manual before they took it off the web--
the one they use in their Instructor Training Course. It is 13 chapters,
all
in .pdf, and very well put together with clear language (the copy I have
is
in english) and nice drawings. However, I'm not sure I feel comfortable
in
handing it out since they have stopped sharing it. Is a representative
from
Bike Not Bombs on this list? If so, would your organization feel
comfortable
if I submitted this to the wiki? If not, what do y'all think? In the
interest of collaboration and team spirit I'd love to share it, but I
definitely didn't develop this manual and it has a copyright clearly on
each
page.
So, BNB, are you out there? Lemme know.
Drew @ Back In The Saddle
512.573.0408
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Ryan Guzy ryanguzy@gmail.com wrote:
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We just started an advanced maintenance class at Bike Saviours in
Tempe,
AZ. We're targeting people who are potential volunteers. The goal is to
show
the general principles so that they can work on any bike they come
across,
and also so that they can begin to teach others. The class will get
them
exposed to all of the maintenance aspects, and we envision them working
as
assistant mechanics during our shop hours to gain experience after the
class
session is over.
We wrote some instructor sheets over the past few months and have been
teaching off of them. Right now I have them on Google Docs and I plan
on
putting them on the Wiki. I'd like to gather material and make handouts
to
go with each class too. Right now we're just using the same sheet as a
handout even though it is kind of dense.
I have also been talking to Christine at Bici Centro about working on
a curriculum together. She is working on some good material for a basic
class. I've also seen other material out there that has good diagrams
that
are free to use.
I think if we can gather interested people to collaborate online we can
put out some really good material that we can all use.
--Ryan
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Boson Au boson.au@gmail.com wrote:
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Hi everyone, Boson from Baltimore, MD's Velocipede Bike Project...
First of all, @ bike!bike! the education-related workshops were the
one
that inspired/interested me the most.  We got back and the first thing
I
want to kick-start was our clinic program which had be suspended due
to a
multitude of reasons... anyways...
so we're about to reinstate our bike clinic series (previously we had
one
person do ALL the teaching and she's about to leave out of town for 3
months
so we've decided that we're going to try to have a group of educators
rotate
classes) and I'm interested in any organizations that hold regular
classes...  This isn't exactly a youth program but more like a general
public thing.  We do have a curriculum, but I'm kind of interested in
other
project's solutions.  If any project has their own curriculum set up
and
want to trade/compare notes that'd be so awesome.

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