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How can I produce a web-accessed video to educate volunteers on how they can contribute their time at club level in special olympics?

Flood, Deirdre (2011) How can I produce a web-accessed video to educate volunteers on how they can contribute their time at club level in special olympics? Educational Journal of Living Theories, 4 . pp. 25-78. ISSN 2009-1788

Abstract
This report presents an action research enquiry using the avenue of living educational theory to examine how I expanded my practice as a volunteer in Special Olympics to develop as an non formal educator within this context. I describe how I embraced my own values in education during this study and chose to be led by them as I attempted to understand how my values influenced my learning and the learning of others. I designed two action reflection cycles of enquiry from June 2010 to June 2011 whilst working with my local Special Olympics Club in Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. In Cycle 1, I record my experience in the production of a commemorative DVD of the Club’s participation in the Special Olympics Ireland Games held in Limerick in June 2010. In Cycle 2, I draw on my experiential learning from Cycle 1 and focus my research enquiry on the production of an educational web accessed video called Changing Lives. This video was divided into six segments so that it could be integrated into the induction module of Special Olympics Irelands online Moodle learning management system. I show how the use of video and visual methods can provide practical, evidence based explanations of practice from the volunteer action sphere in Special Olympics.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Special Olympics; Volunteer; Web-accessed; Video; Action Research; Living Educational Theory
Subjects:Social Sciences > Education
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Education Studies
Publisher:Dublin City University
Official URL:http://ejolts.net/node/186
Copyright Information:©2011 Flood
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:16885
Deposited On:11 Apr 2012 10:44 by Fran Callaghan . Last Modified 19 Jul 2018 14:55
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