Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike Education/Clinic curriculum?

-- Sincerely, Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org Get Addicted to Crank! http://www.slcbikecollective.org/crank/ The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households. On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Ryan Guzy ryanguzy@gmail.com wrote: > 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: > >> 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. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Thethinktank mailing list >> Thethinktank@bikecollectives.org >> To unsubscribe, send a blank email to >> leave-TheThinkTank@bikecollectives.org >> To manage your subscription, plase visit: >> >> http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o... >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Thethinktank mailing list > Thethinktank@bikecollectives.org > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to > leave-TheThinkTank@bikecollectives.org > To manage your subscription, plase visit: > > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o... > >