Podcasting
Quickanddirtytips.com (It's not obscene like the title sounds)
After looking in Itunes for a good educational worthy podcast I came across Legal lad's quicky and dirty tips for a more lawful life. In the Itunes educational section I would say 90 out of the top 100 education based podcasts are foreign language instructionals, not to say they aren't interesting but it's not my thing. While the podcast is not exactly based on educating students its very informative for just curious people. Legal lad is actually a real lawyer and the information given in the brief podcast is in response to questions asked by people who listen and email in questions. This weeks question is on the possesion of handguns or mace. While I don't know how much I actually value the opinion of a lawyer who does podcasts, I do however think it is worthwhile though for broad subjects such as file sharing or what is a grand jury. The podcasts are very quick at around ten minutes a piece and has very little dead time. I think that podcasting is a great tool but I think in an educational setting you would want to have some kind of restriction on content. Itunes is a great resource but I would take the time to at least read some reviews or listen through the whole podcast before I would give it as an assignment. Podcasting would have a great benefit in my workplace in athletics because it would allow people from other schools and other conferences to share information in a clear and concise manner. The best part about that is that a person with very little technical skill can produce their own podcast.
Chapter 14 reflection
I think I might be one of the only ones who has a different point of view of the subject of HPI or human perfomance improvement. My point of view does not come as an instructor but as a coach. The example I keep coming back to is in football if your team gets loses a close game 22-21 the next week you come back to practice and you focus on why you lost the previous and not for your next opponent. The results are counter productive you must move on and keep going forward. Now you don't forget about the game completely but you have to get back to basics and why the fundamental approach you took didn't work. Maybe your pass defense wasn't as aggressive as you would have liked it to be so the next week you work on pass defense drills. Maybe your punter couldn't kick the ball to save his life so you have him punting all practice. Each one of these examples is of how the whole team was not the cause of the loss but each individual unit played a role in the process.
3 comments:
Relating this week's reading assignment to coaching definitely puts HPI in an easy-to-understand real-world application. It is amazing to me that once we start looking for it, we find that good teachers (and coaches) are always looking for ways to make our students, classes, and teams better for their own sake and not just for the sake of a game or an assignment. Thanks for the example.
Using podcasts as a way to answer questions through an expert is a neat application for podcasting, I agree. In my podcast that I posted, one 7th grade science teacher used podcasting to answer his student's questions as well as a way for the students to become experts and then share their knowledge through their own podcasts. What an easy way to get students involved and learning at the same time. I also like that the podcasts you chose were short without a lot of down time. I found that many of the ones I listened to allowed me to zone out way before the session was over. I can only imagine my students doing the same. Like always, as teachers we must be very critical of what we put to our students.
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed reading your blog.
I understand your football example. I like how you said to look forward and work harder on the strengths of the team. Students and athletes now what they need to work on. It's a good thing we are here to help them focus and show them the way.
Matt - Great prospective! Having just come back from out flight team competition (WMU Skybroncos), I can't believe that I didn't make that connection. I think that you definately hit the head on the nail with that one. As I look back at each of our practices, and then finally our competition week, HPI definately played a MAJOR roll throughout! In fact, since we took 2nd place at our regional competition, we've got a long way too prepare for the national competition in May 2009. HPI here we come!
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