Basic Camp Management: An Introduction to Camp Administration

Basic Camp Management: An Introduction to Camp Administration
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All the Basics

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Basic Camp Management: An Introduction to Camp Administration
Armand B. Ball , and Beverly Ball
Manufacturer: American Camping Association
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This instructional guide serves both as a learning resource for the novice camp director and as a quick reference for the more experienced director. Covering 14 topics of study identified by the American Camping Association as core areas of knowledge for camping professionals, this book includes discussions of leadership, participation, program design, risk management, finances, marketing, site and facilities, and strategic planning. Interpretive charts, tables, and graphics illustrate both the basics and the nuances of camp administration. Each topic is followed by a series of checkpoints and questions to be used as tools for further review.

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All the Basics.......2001-02-20

Basic Camp Management covers all the basics one needs to know about the summer camp industry, plus new sections that include retreat/conference centers. It is a great resource for both the new and vetern camp director. Any one thinking about going into the camping industry should read this book. It covers everything from finances to programming. The book basically reads like a text book with review questions at the end of each chapter. I would reccomend this book as the most comprehensive resource for the summer camp industry to date. It would also be useful in a recreational sciences course.

A Very Thorough Approach to Management.......2001-02-17

This book is extremely comprehensive and thorough. It walks you through all the aspects of camp management. All the functions that are involved in running a camp are explored. Basic camp management gives enough information for an individual to create their own programs, with the necessary information about development according to age.

In addition, the book incorporates many sample forms into the chapters, for example, a health history form. There are also myriad samples provided- such as a sample job descriptions and risk management checklists for camp personnel. There are resources provided for the reader, including organizations and the ACA Code of Ethics.

Basic Camp Management is well thought out. It is simple to read and simple to read and serves as an excellent resource for individuals interested in Camp Administration. I found the bulleted lists and checkpoint questions very helpful. This is a great introduction or reference for someone who wants information on hand.

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Creating positive ongoing client relationships
Building trust and improving communications
Facilitating group brainstorming sessions
Drawing out the best in people
Developing a collaborative environment
Designing and facilitating dialogue
Managing conflicting agendas
Working with multicultural groups
Using improvisation
Understanding virtual meetings
Facilitating team start-up
Assessing group decision processes
Building expertise in facilitation
Reviewing core facilitation competencies
Modeling positive professional attitudes

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Sponsored by the International Association of Facilitators, The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation offers the need-to-know basics in the field brought together by fifty leading practitioners and scholars. This indispensable resource includes successful strategies and methods, foundations, and resources for anyone who works with groups. The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation provides an overview of the field for new and aspiring practitioners and a reliable reference for experienced group facilitators, including chapters on -Creating positive ongoing client relationships -Building trust and improving communications -Facilitating group brainstorming sessions -Drawing out the best in people -Developing a collaborative environment -Designing and facilitating dialogue -Managing conflicting agendas -Working with multicultural groups -Using improvisation -Understanding virtual meetings -Facilitating team start-up -Assessing group decision processes - Building expertise in facilitation -Reviewing core facilitation competencies -Modeling positive professional attitudes

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Excellent Resource Manual.......2007-03-08

I purchased 3 different books regarding faciliation techniques and guidelines and this was the ultimate. It is set out very clearly, provides background to faciliation and then systematically steps through an end-to-end process including a wide range of techniques to select from when developing a plan for a facilitation workshop.

A TOP-NOTCH, IN-DEPTH INTRODUCTION TO FACILITATION........2005-08-09

An extraordinarily rich and in-depth introduction to the subject. Each chapter is written by one or more experts. The book covers such topics as:

- creating an ongoing client relationship;
- the skilled facilitator approach;
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- facilitation planning and preparation;
- building trust;
- the art of drawing out the best in people;
- building a collaborative environment;
- facilitating the whole system in the room;
- improvisation in facilitation;
- virtual meetings;
- facilitating communication in group decision making discussions;
- how to build you facilitation expertise.

These topics are but a sampling, to give some idea of the scope and depth of this most valuable volume, which takes the reader far deeper than methods and techniques. The book is well organized and very accessible. Based on our organization diagnosis, design and change consulting experience (www.FutureOrganization.com), we find this book to be a terrific resource for practitioners.

The Facilitation Reference Book.......2005-04-20

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Chapters cover a wide array of applications, methods and theory of faciliation. Topics such as visual facilitation, the use of stories in facilitation, training of facilitators, facilitation as a communications tool and much more make this book a must have for those concerned with the profession of facilitation

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Investing in College Basketball provides a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for successfully wagering on college basketball. It shows how the returns - winnings -- from investing in college basketball can be far greater than investing in stocks and bonds. These returns can be achieved by anyone with an interest in basketball, basic mathematical skills, and a computer with spreadsheet programs and Internet access. The power of the methodology is demonstrated by actual investing results for the 2003-2004 season of the Atlantic 10 Conference. The book includes an analysis of investment outcomes for the A-10 Conference, the working papers for assessing each team, and the analysis of each game for which an investment was made. There are extensive examples of how theory is applied in analyzing actual games and showing how good analysis consistently pays off.

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Well written and informative book except for the money management part.......2006-06-07

Wagering on CBB for the past 5 seasons, I decided to pick up this book to see if it had anything new to offer that I had never thought of.

Turns out, almost everything I did to handicap games was in this book. So if you are just beginning to handicap CBB, this book would probably help a lot more than it did me. Either way, it was nice to see that Larry handicapped games similarly to me. Even the opinion that I have that NCAA tournament time is NOT the time to bet is held by Larry.

Something though that did open my eyes a little bit was the conference specialization. Picking a conference and only betting those games has it's advantages and disadvantages. If you don't have a lot of time though, I think it may be better to specialize in a conference than to just know some stuff about a lot of teams.

I enacted this strategy for the last month of the season last year with rather strong results to show for it.

As I mentioned, the money management section to me is poorly written. I may think this because I don't believe in what he said to do. The mantra I follow is "don't bet it unless you think you see value and thus an easy cover".

He says you should bet more on some games that show more value. Well experience shows you that some games you think have more value turn into non covers and vice versa. Betting this way is an easy way to cause a huge variance in the bottom line. I used to do that and it caused a variance of profit of over 300%.

Easy example: Over a 50 game stretch you bet between 10 and 60 dollars and finish down 100 with a .500 record. Average bet was 30 per wager. You could have bet 175 per wager and would have only been down 100 dollars as well. If you had bet the same 30 every time, you would have only been down 26 and change.

Wagering the same amount on each game keeps this variance from happening and you can worry more about hitting above 55% and not from that hole you just dug because you upped the amount on a certain game because of "perceived value".

All in all, a good book except for the money management section.

Brilliant NCAA Basketball ideas.......2005-10-09

This is the single best book I have read on handicapping NCAA basketball. His methodologies for analyzing teams, and setting spreads and totals are both fascinating and deadly. This treatise has a lot of solid theoretical content which I observed in the 2004 season, and it worked in application.

This is not a gambling treatise - while his analysis of basketball is superb, his ideas on money management and risk analysis are borderline catastrophic. However, if you are already an intermediate to advanced gambler, and you ignore all the material on bet sizing, the handicapping material is first rate (and would warrant a 5-star rating).

Use with caution.......2005-01-15

This book is pretty interesting. On the one hand it does a good job outlining the hard work necessary to win betting on college hoops, and even outlines some nice methods. But all that is almost entirely nullified by the horrendous "money management" advice Seidel gives. He sounds like a tout when he says things such as "if you can't win 60% you should be doing something else". He goes on to talk about how a 75% winning percentage seems to be attainable and gives advice for using bet sizes of over 10% of your bankroll. I can not begin to tell you how bad this advice is. It basically brings into question the rest of the book and how long Seidel has actually been involved in sports betting. His money management advice reaks of someone who had a very nice season betting basketball and doesn't have an appreciation for the swings that are inherent in betting sports. Because even the most successful sports bettor in the world would eventually go broke putting that much of his bankroll at risk. For better money management advice look into classic books such as "Insights into Sports Betting" and Beating the Professional Football Point Spread". I could only recommend this book to people who are seasoned sports bettors with their own set money management ideas and REALISTIC expectations, but are interested in reading about some good approaches to college hoops. Because there is some good advice in the book, just some very bad advice as well.

Invest, don't gamble!.......2004-11-16

This book is great. I love college basketball and this book describes exactly how to win by spending more time on your passion.

I love the concepts. Imagine a stock market where you know more about the stocks than anyone else. Where most of the other investors are amatuers, not professionals. Where there are few frauds like Enron, Marsh, WorldCom or HealthSouth to tank your portfolio. Where investment gains come immediately, not after years. Where there are dozens of brokers keeping commissions low.

Well, this book describes college basketball betting as just such a market. College basketball "investing" offers all of these, plus none of the disadvantages of large and public betting markets such as stock market, or even the NFL or NBA. The book is a how-to-guide for those who want to gain an advantage and have the discipline to invest the time and effort.

The book is heavy on concrete descriptions on how to gather and use information. It describes strategies for each part of the season, the advantages of specializing in a conference and how to choose one, and the key factors in game analysis. The methods seem to require a lot of work and very disciplined selections, but remember, we're talking about college basketball here. This is fun analysis.

This book is completely unlike "The Odds," which came out about three years ago. The characters in that story were gambling, something this author would probably never do. He has written a book that teaches, rather than just entertains.

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501 English Verbs gives the conjugations or conjugated forms of the irregular and regular verbs most frequently used in speech and writing. Each verb is presented alphabetically, one verb per page, with the page head showing the verb in its infinitive form. The verb's principal parts are then given in active and passive voices above a table format in which the verb is listed in its first-, second-, and third-person singular and plural forms in all tenses.

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The English student.......2007-01-19

Nice buying . I read/used this book for study and I'm not disappointed. I recommend.

501 English Verbs. .......2006-08-08

Very disappointing. Having purchased the French and German verb books in this series, I assumed that this book would be up to the same high standard as the other two. Not so. I am not sure if this book has been written by computer, or by someone who has English as a second language. I think any reader using this book to try to learn English will have a difficult time. Only buy this book if nothing else is available. Then again you might be better off not buying this book at all.

Incorrect Grammar.......2005-12-20

My friend bought this book to help teach English and not only has it got some very strange verb formations in it, but ones that are totally wrong! We're surprised it has made it into the shops in fact. For example, it contains the verb 'to stink' and as one of its formations lists 'to be stunk'. We are both English and we have never heard of this, so it's misleading to someone learning English. There is even 'I am deep frozen'! This seems unnecessary, as it would surely never be said? It is thorough, but unfortunately much of it is wrong and would teach a foreign person to speak very odd English.

Great reference for new English speakers.......2005-07-26

I bought this book for my wife when she moved to the United States in the mid 1990s, and it quickly became a very useful reference for her in her ESL classes, and for me when I helped her with her assignments.

Like the other books in the 501 series, every verb in the language cannot possibly be included small reference, but there are enough examples of common irregular verbs to cover most conjugation scenarios. In addition, the 501 verbs selected go a long way in terms of the vocabulary of day-to-day reading, writing, and speaking.

The layout of each page is the same throughout the book, so you know exactly where to look for the conjugation of a specific tense. In addition, editors have made good use of white space so the content is easy on the eyes.

I strongly recommend this book as a reference guide to anyone who is learning English, whether you're in school or trying to pick up the language on your own.

Muy útil para hispanoparlantes.......2004-03-29

Considero que el libro aporta una considerable ayuda para aquellos hispanoparlantes que estudian inglés y que desean obtener rápida y completa información sobre la conjugación de los verbos tanto regulares como irregulares. Un solo reproche que hacerle a esta obra: debería presentar la pronunciación figurada de los verbos y sus conjugaciones en alfabeto fonético internacional.

Eighth Grade Hero (Junior High, No 6)
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Eighth Grade Hero (Junior High, No 6)
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