Current Course Title & Author:

Social Issues in Sport (Sport Sociology); Dr. Leah Holland Fiorentino, Adelphi University

Topic Focus of Activity:

Identifying episodes of  fair play in a competitive environment

Student Learning Objectives:

1. The student will be able to identify episodes that reflect children displaying different levels of god/bad sportsmanship in a competitive youth sport environment.
2. The student will be able to identify different sources and categories of feedback provided by adult/authority figures.
3.

National Standard Connections:

.NASPE/NCATE

Description of Idea:

After the lecture on fair play, youth sport environments, and parental involvement.  Students are assigned the following task.

Videotape a youth sport event using one of the department digital video cameras (or your own, if it has digital capacities). Remember that you will need to connect the camera to the MAC computers via a firewire to complete the assignment...so a digital video camera is imperative. When you are at the sporting event, be sure to capture footage of players, coaches and parents.  Once the sporting event is over and you return home, review the video tape once through to see "what you really captured" on tape.  On the second run through with your footage, identify scenes within the sport event footage that would represent the following behaviors:

a.       Good sportsmanship

b.      Bad sportsmanship

c.       Positive FB  interactions

d.      Negative FB interactions

You are now going to create a project to share with the class that demonstrates your perspective on the sporting event and make appropriate connections to the content covered in class lectures.  Connect your video camera to the MAC computer and launch the movie software.  Follow the directions from the technology instruction manual. Create a 3 minute DV file that includes 30 second samples of the above mentioned scenes.   Include a title slide at the start of each segment and provide a voice over which explains why you selected these scenes as representative of the content areas. Save the project and submit it on-time.

All student projects are shared in a small group discussion format in a subsequent class period, where all projects are displayed via an LCD projector and the small groups discuss the sample episodes chosen by each individual student.

Assessment Technique:

Students are assessed on the quality of the submitted DV file with attention given to appropriate selected episodes, appropriate voice over rationale for inclusion of the selected episodes.

Approximate time required:

Student time out of class includes, approximately 90 of video capture at the sporting event; 60 minute initial review of footage; 90 minute second review of footage and selection of  episodes; 30 minutes of iMovie creation.  In-class time for project review is determined by class size, each file is 3 minutes long and small group discussion should last 5 minutes per project.  Plan for a final summary of projects before dismissing class.