Developing an E-Portfolio
I missed out on the the EpCop MOOC last year. I did sign up for it but failed to make any of the synchronous presentations or conversations. However since then I have returned regularly to look at the great resources available. The EpCop site will be a perfect reference site for participants in the Sport [...]
SCP12: Week 2
The Sport Coaching Pedagogy (#SCP12) unit starts this week at the University of Canberra. There are 70 participants in the unit. They have a great range of coaching and teaching backgrounds. The unit has a: Wikiversity page that provides information about unit content and assessment Facebook page that shares information about #SCP12 activities Moodle site [...]
Eyewitnesses, Memory and Oral History
Radio National’s Hindsight had an excellent program this week. Inga Clendinnen, Paul Thompson, Peter Read, Heather Goodall, Sean Field and Bonnie Smith took part in the program (podcast here) titled The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting. I thought the program explored very effectively the relationships between history and memory. I liked in particular the discussion [...]
Practice into Action
Most Sunday mornings I go up to my local rural fire station for a radio check. Last Sunday after the radio check we looked at a short video produced by CFA Victoria. Although the content is related specifically to a fire incident I thought there were some great generic lessons about: Thoughtful decision making Transferring [...]
Hugh Fullerton’s Inside Game
Back in the Summer of 1993 I spent some time in the Ursinus College Library. I was looking for information about Lloyd Messersmith. Eventually I found a copy of Lloyd’s 1942 Doctor of Education thesis The Development of a Measurement Technique for Determining the Distances Traversed by Players in Basketball. The Bibliography contains twenty-one references, one [...]
