Tuesday 27th March 2012

The 7^th week of Sport Coaching Pedagogy...

 Last week’s lecture looked at Sharing and Presenting information, this blog itself is an excellent example of sharing and presenting information. We first looked at Keith’s work with the AIS athletes and looking at dartfish, a software program design to allow viewing and analyse recorded performances. By looking at an athlete’s perspective through a camera on the athletes head allows sharing of the athlete perspective and can allow a coach to see and feel what the athlete does. Once a coach can have a greater understanding of what an athlete is seeing and feeling during performance training can be more specific for the athlete.

Video recording is an excellent way of sharing and presenting information especially sporting performances. We watched two videos during the lecture, the first of Kerrin Perkins in lane 8 winning a gold medal for 1500m freestyle l in the 1996 Olympics. This video raises the point that if you training in lane 8, then when you get to competition you can’t get any worse conditions. So sharing information allows coaches to learn from others previous experiences.  
The second we viewed was of wheelchair basketball players, the purpose of this video was to identify levels of ability and create criteria for analysing performance, so by presenting this information coaches are able to view skill levels of players and create criteria of skilled performers.

To finish the lecture this week, we explored collaborative tools to share and present information. Wiki which is one of the tools used during the course of this unit, Sport coaching pedagogy, allows sharing of anything really, or as Keith described it a ‘portal of knowledge’, this tool provides the class with 1000 years of experience as a collective group, as opposed to our own individual experiences of 20 or 18 years.

The crash on Kings Highway a few weeks again, the news was on social media website and road closures before police reports were out. This is an example of the new age of technology and the evolution of sharing information.  Another example is twitter and the use of it during lectures and presentation. There are concurrent,  back channel presentation, where there are tweets on the lecture and even interaction with the lecturer answer questions or explaining concerns students have, this allows for sharing of ideas and is appearing to replace putting your hand up in class to ask the teacher a question.   
With all this sharing and presenting of ideas why would you choose to be private? The new competition is collaboration and sharing. The whole idea sharing is to connect people to ideas, and allow them to think of them themselves.

 I would like to leave you with this thought Capture information once, use it many times.