Past Project Descriptions
Kinesiology & Health Education
A Digital Video Scaffold for Learning Movement Patterns
Faculty Member: Dixie Stanforth
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Student Technologist: Hoa Mai
Project Description: The goal of this project was to expand the scope of an existing development effort. The initial project was designed to support students in three Kinesiology courses as they learned to assess movement patterns. This called for the creation of real-time movement screens collected on a DVD and/or website. The 2004 Vision Award project links the movement screens to a series of remedial exercises that target areas in which a student evidences a need for improvement.
Biomechanical Analysis of Human Movement
Faculty Members: Lawrence Abraham and Jonathan Dingwell
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Student Technologist: Hyung-Gu Kang
Project Description: The goal of this project was to create a web-based instructional model to support instruction of human biomechanics, biomechanics data collection and display techniques for use in teaching, sport, or clinical rehabilitation settings. Products include instructional modules in which users can view and analyze digital video clips and dynamic simulations of the human body that allow students to manipulate factors and see the relationships between body, movement, and environment.
DVD Resource for Techniques of Fitness Leadership
Faculty Member: Dixie Stanforth
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Student Technologist: Jay Holzer
Project Description: The project goal was the creation of a video resource for students in Kinesiology 352,part of the course series that leads to certification as a personal trainer. The course has a significant lab component that meets in the open weight room, a setting in which students’ ability to see and hear is compromised. This resource provides students with high-quality examples and descriptions of specific exercises that students can study before and after the gym-based demonstrations.
Human Anatomy and Sports Injuries Video Clips for Lectures and Presentations
Faculty Members: Roger Farrar and Brian Farr
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Student Technologist: Lucas Horton
Project Description: The primary goal for this project was to provide instructional PowerPoint presentations that include still video images, written text, and video clips, to be archived on CDs for use in class lectures and laboratory presentations for students who take Applied Human Anatomy. The video segments and virtual movement clips have been extracted from a commercial CD series and are embedded in presentation software (e.g. PowerPoint) to be shown to an entire group.
Team Sports Skills Demonstration Videos
Faculty Members: Amanda Gammage
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Description: Teacher certification students in Kinesiology 219T prepare a short video of themselves teaching a skill from one of the five team sports that are focused on in this class. Grading points include the proper introduction of the skill, cues, and demonstrations, as well as the ability to use the video camera and iMovie editing tools. These instructional videos are now available on the web for viewing by students and others interested in teaching these sports.
Using PDAs for Fitness Testing
Faculty Members: Phil Stanforth
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Description: About ninety students each year learn to conduct fitness evaluations as part of KIN 352K Diagnosis and Fitness. The goal of this project is to develop a system for using PDAs to conduct Posture and Movement screens. These screens have traditionally been conducted using pencil and paper. Recording this data directly to a PDA and then uploading it to a database will eliminate recording errors and allow advanced processing of the data.
Using PDAs for Fitness Testing
Faculty Members: Phil Stanforth
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Description: About ninety students each year learn to conduct fitness evaluations as part of KIN 352K Diagnosis and Fitness. The goal of this project is to develop a system for using PDAs to conduct Posture and Movement screens. These screens have traditionally been conducted using pencil and paper. Recording this data directly to a PDA and then uploading it to a database will eliminate recording errors and allow advanced processing of the data.
Volleyball Developmental Sequences
Faculty Member: Amanda Gammage
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Student Technologist: Owen Lin
Project Description: The goal of this project was to create web- and CD-ROM-based resources that demonstrate developmental sequences for volleyball skills. The precontrol, control, utilization,and proficiency levels are illustrated. In an accompanying assignment,students analyze videos in order to identify flaws in technique. Slow motion and text overlays are used to help the viewer focus on basic fundamental movements.
Web Resource for KIN 312
Faculty Member: Carla Costa
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Student Technologist: Owen Lin
Project Description: The goal of this project was to develop a set of web-based tools to support and enhance the recipient's Structure and Organization of Sport Programs Gagateway course for sports management majors. Resources include a set of interviews with professionals in the field of sports management, an exhibition feature with a catalogued collection of student projects, a web event area in which students could engage in scheduled discussions with professionals, and a set of course management tools (providing access to grades, shared documents, and a discussion area).