#MohaliGateHomework
I have been following the #MohaliGateHomework discussions on Twitter. Events surrounding the exclusion of four players from the Third Test in India have helped me focus my thoughts on the distinctions...
View ArticleTrue Colours? Winning Football Games
Each football season in Australia, I think about teams’ performances against their previous season’s rankings. For Australian Rules, Rugby League, Rugby Union and the W League, I maintain a simple...
View ArticleWinning and Losing in the 2013 Six Nations Rugby Union Tournament: Some...
I have been following the 2013 Six Nations’ performance data provided by the Official Website for the Tournament. This is my first look at some quantitative data. I have a Google Sheet of these data...
View ArticleSmall Open Online Communities
I had an opportunity to present some ideas about a cSOOC at the #ucsaffire Festival. Shortly after presenting, I had a brief conversation with Danny Munnerley about the capital C in SOOC. Danny made...
View ArticleProdusing Resources
This week in the Sport Coaching Pegagogy unit at the University of Canberra we are looking at Produsage. There is a SlideCast of the lecture. I was thinking of how to discuss produsage when up popped a...
View Article130325 Performance Against Ranking 2013 Football Season
Introduction I am following three of the four football codes in Australia in the 2013 season. The three codes are: Australian Rules, Rugby League and Rugby Union. I am keeping a record of these codes...
View ArticleAccreditation Pathways for Performance Analysts
Jason Lear‘s reply to a Kirsten Spencer question on LinkedIn has sent me off on a three week journey. Jason has a clear sense of accreditation for performance analysts which he has shared in...
View ArticleWeek 5 at the Introduction to Box’Tag SOOC
Week 5 is the final week of the synchronous phase of the Introduction to Box’Tag Small Open Online Course (SOOC). As of this morning there are 131 participants in the course. There were 25 participants...
View Article130402 Performance Against Ranking 2013 Football Season
Introduction I am following three of the four football codes in Australia in the 2013 season. The three codes are: Australian Rules, Rugby League and Rugby Union. This is my second post about...
View ArticleGoal-Line Technology Update: April 2013
I have been following FIFA’s plans for goal-line technology. My last update was in February. Yesterday it was announced that GoalControl GmbH has won the right to supply Goal-Line Technology at the...
View Article130409 Performance Against Ranking 2013 Football Season
Introduction I am following three of the four football codes in Australia in the 2013 season. The three codes are: Australian Rules, Rugby League and Rugby Union. This is my third post about...
View Article130415 Performance Against Ranking 2013 Football Season
Introduction I am following three of the four football codes in Australia in the 2013 season. The three codes are: Australian Rules, Rugby League and Rugby Union. This is my fourth post about...
View Article#SpCP13: Managing Data
We are up to Week 11 in the Sport Coaching Pedagogy unit at the University of Canberra. This week’s topic is Managing Data. I am hopeful that this SlideCast (10 minute audio) prompts discussion.
View Article130423 Performance Against Ranking 2013 Football Season
Introduction I was delighted that last week’s post about performance against ranking in the 2013 football season benefitted from Stephen Downes‘ comments. Stephen made some excellent suggestions about...
View Article#SpCP13 Mentoring (2)
We are into Week 12 of the Sport Coaching Pedagogy unit at the University of Canberra. This week we are taking a second look at Mentoring. This is the SlideCast (11 minutes) I will use as the framework...
View ArticleAFL 2013: Profiling Winning and Losing After Five Rounds
Five rounds have been completed in the 2013 AFL season. Geelong, Essendon and Port Adelaide have won all five of their games to date. GWS are the only team not to have won a game. The average points...
View ArticleCurate and Share: Three Tools To Consider
Introduction On 11 July, I am participating in a Webinar facilitated by Peter Downs. The Webinar is one of six Webinars coordinated by Peter using the iWebinar platform. I was delighted to be invited...
View Article130430 Performance Against Ranking 2013 Football Season
Introduction This is a fifth post about performance against ranking in three football codes in Australia. You can find some background information about this project here. Earlier this week I posted a...
View ArticleLong Term Athlete Development
This week’s topic in the Sport Coaching Pedagogy unit at the University of Canberra was Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD). The topic gave me an opportunity to reflect on my experience in athlete...
View ArticlePlay, Parents and Paradox
I received an invitation to talk this afternoon with Sonya Feldhoff on the Afternoons program on 891 ABC Adelaide. The topic of conversation was the intensity of sporting parents following on, in part,...
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