This Class taught me a ton. Mainly what I got from this class is really utilizing the resources that we have available to us. I never knew how many great tools we could find to not only make our research easier for us but also to make our research more crediable. I have already showed my family that is still in school some of the ways you can really use the internet to get a lot of good sources. In my future school work I will now be able to find information I need on just about any topic with what we have learned. My favorite part of the class was all the neat tools on the internet to get information on our paper or subject.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Research Journal Assignment #14
Casstevens, David, and Gary Mack. Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. Print.
Dale, Greg, and Jeff Janssen. The Seven Secrets of Successful Coaches. Tuscon, Arizona: Janssen Peak Performance Inc, 2002. Print.
Martens, Rainer. Successful Coaching: America's Best Selling Coach's Guide. Champaign, ILHuman Kinetics Publishers: Human Kinetics Publishers, 1990. Print.
Michael, Angier. "Ten Ways To Encourage Someone To Be His Best." Insider Reports 2009 Web.27 Sept 2009.
Thompson, Jim. Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-esteem Through Sports. San Francisco: Balance Sports Publishing, 1995. Print.
Tutko, Thomas A., and Jack W. Richards. Psychology of Coaching. Boston: Allyn And Bacon, Inc., 1973. Print.
Tyson Allen, Interview. “Sally Moos, Head Volleyball Coach at Cherry Creek High School” Oct 15, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
RJA #13b: Annotated Bibliography, Part 1
Rick, Albrecht. "Psychology of Coaching Motivating Your Athletes ." Michigan High School Athletic Association 21, March, 2005 Web.27 Oct 2009.
Rick, Weinberg. "Bob Knight loses cool, tosses chair." ESPN25 85 Web.27 Oct. 2009. http://sports.espn.go.com
Richard, Sandomir. "TV SPORTS; The Evidence Arrives by Video: Knight Indeed Had a Choke Hold." New York Times section D April 14, 2000 Pg. 8. Web.27 Oct. 2009. http://www.nytimes.com
Wolff, A. "Knight fall: Bob Knight's controversial 29-year reign at Indiana came to an ironic end when he gave a student an unmannerly lesson on manners." Sports Illustrated 93.11 (18 Sep. 2000): 54-57. SPORTDiscus. EBSCO. Auraria Library, Parker, CO. 27 Oct. 2009 www.ebsco.com
Monday, November 9, 2009
RJA #12b: Presentation Plan
Intro: thesis statement on how positive reinforcement coaching is better than negative reinforcement.
a. Introducing positive coaching and negative coaching
a. Introducing positive coaching and negative coaching
I. Introduction to positive coaching methods
a. Three essential ingredients
i. Reinforcement
ii. Instruction
iii. Encouragement
Those are my main points for the paper and I will put in positive and negative examples of each of those points.
IConclusion: Putting it all together
a. Effects of negative coaching VS. the effects of positive coaching
b. Which method works best for the athlete
RJA #12a: Progress Report
Things I have done
- Research on my argument
- outlined my paper
- found some visual aids I can include on my paper
- Starting to expand on my outline
Things I need to do
- pick out what research I will actually use for my paper
- organizing my bibliography
- Get a solid thesis statement that I feel good about.
My goal this week is to gather my sources into a bibliography. Over the weekend a plan to make a rough rough draft of my paper just to get my thoughts down on paper.
Then it is on from there.
RJA #13a: Field Research Report
Q: Do you believe in positive or negative reinforcement with your players?
A: It is important to keep a positive reinforcement out look with your players. There are plenty of teams that are successful without the coach having to tear you down to build you back up. I think it is important to be honest with your players and real with them so they respect you more as a coach but it isn't important to go after your players in a negative way. If that is done I have seen players more often than not trying to play not to mess up than trying to play with confidence that they can be successful and believing in themselves.
Q: What is your main goal with the athletes that you coach?
A: The main goal is to give players the necessary tools and inspiration they need so that they can accomplish anything they wish to if they put there minds to it.
Q: In your opinion, what makes a great coach?
A: A great coach easily is someone who has the players best interest in mind at all times. In order to coach you have to love your players and be organized to where you can instill a sense of your own love for competing and being successful later in life
Monday, October 12, 2009
RJA #8c: Multimedia
Blinkx.com
Keywords: ethical coaching
video address: Bizness of Coaching and Team
Search Strategies: Boolean search
Date of search: 10/12/09
Number of hits: Unknown
2 out of 5 relevance
RJA #8b: Social Media
evri.com
Keywords: high school sports coaches philosophy
Search Strategies: search engine math
Date search 10/12/09
Number of hits: unknown
3 out of 5 relevance
Socialmention.com
Keywords: youth sport coach* advise
Search Strategies: boolean search
Date searched: 10/12/09
Number of hits: unknown
3 out of 5 relevance
RJA #8a: Websites
Google.com
Keywords: sport coach* philosophy +ethics
Search strategy: search engine math
Date of search: 10/12/09
Number of hits: about 500,000 monthly
Relevance: 4 out of 5
Internet Research Project
The internet research tool I was assigned was "zakta.com." The internet site was a multi-search engine. The search site's strengths were that it listed more that just result, it actually categorized the information for you. There were results listed under video, book, blogs and other sites depending on what the search entailed. One weakness might be that the result given are pretty broad. One way to improve the search engine would be to add "preview images" of the sites listed as results for what is searched. Search engines that were searched included google.com, video sites included youtube.com and blogs searched through technorati.com. The search engine would perform the boolean search which helped in narrowing the results. There is no advance search function which is another downfall to the website. Zakta.com's goal is to use prior searches in helping other "searchers" find what they are needing. There is an option to make an account through zakta.com so that you might save your results, come back to them later and share them with whomever might need the same information you were searching. Overall, the search engine is great and gives a various range of results.
Monday, October 5, 2009
RJA #7c: Field Research Plan
For my field research I plan to interview the head coach of the Cherry Creek High School's volleyball program, Sally Moos. She was recently feature on a series called, Coaching Legacies and has had much success in the program she has built at the school. Some questions I will be asking will include:
What is the main goal you wish to achieve with the athletes you coach?
In your opinion, what makes a great coach?
What would you say is your coaching philosophy?
In your experience with coaching, have you noticed how positive reinforcement varies
from negative reinforcement?
RJA #7b: Internet Research Tool Test
- Resource searched: zakta.com
- Keywords used: coaching AND positive reinforcement
- Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Boolean search
- Date of search: October 5, 2009
- Number of hits: Unknown
- Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 5. It was exactly along the lines of what my topic and what type of information would be relevant to my paper.
- Resource searched: zakta.com
- Keywords used: coach* AND philosophy AND success*
- Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Boolean
- Date of search: October 5, 2009
- Number of hits: Unknown
- Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 5. It lead me to a great example to fine coaching philosophies that will help me in my research.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
RJA #7a: Internet Research Tools
The search engine that I have always used throughout all my research projects through high school and so on has been through Google. I use them because I have never had a problem not obtaining information that I have been looking for. I like the search engine because it is just really user friendly. This class has been my first time that I have probably used other search engines on purpose and have found it to be useful. The other one that I keep coming back to lately has been Yahoo, it has always been around and is popular as well. I find it to be a user friendly search engine as well. I am still starting to use other search engine's but these two are the ones I think of going to first.
Monday, September 28, 2009
RJA #6b: Search Strings
Coaching +Successful +Philosophy +Reinforcement +high school -Professional
(coach*) AND (Success* OR Philosophy OR Reinforcement)
(coach*) AND (discipline OR Reinforcement)
RJA #6a: Periodical Articles
Author: David Parsh
Title of Article: 8 Steps to a Coaching Philosophy
Title of periodical: Coach and Athletic Administrator
Volume and issue number: Vol. 76 Iss. 9
Date: April 2007
Pages: 56
Resource searched: Auraria Library
Keywords used: Coaching Philosophy
Search strategies: Coaching +Philosophy
Date of search: 9-28-09
Number of hits: unknown
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): it was about a 3 because it talked about how to reach a philosophy but I need a article with some results of certain coaching philosophies.
Name(s) of author(s): Vaughn, Rober J.
Title of article: Youth coaches are more important than they think they are.
Title of periodical: Coach and Athletic Director
Volume and issue number: Vol. 67 Iss. 6
Date: Jan 1998
Pages on which article appears: pg. 68
Resource searched: Auraria Library
Keywords used: Coaching Philosophy
Search strategies: Coaching Philosophy -college
Date of search: 9-28-09
Number of hits: unknown
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): It was again about a 3 because it had what coaching philosophy was but I need results of certain coaching techniques.
Monday, September 21, 2009
RJA #5b: Books
The automatic citing link gave me this information on the book I had found through the auraria library.
Viewed on 9/17/09
I just searched for coaching philosophy in my search sting and this was one of the hits. I don't know how many times this book has been searched but seems like it is a perfect 5 for being relevant for my topic. The searching continues...
RJA #5a: Reference Articles
I first looked at the source that our librarian had suggested. I actually came across a couple of really nice articles. One that I will come back to in doing my paper was this one listed below.
Database: SPORTDiscus
that is all the information that it gave for citing it.
Viewed on 9/17/09
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
RJA# 4b: Writing Search Strings
Math
Coaching +Successful +Philosophy -Professional
Boolean
(coach*) AND (Success* OR Philosophy OR (Student AND Athlete*))
RJA #4a: Generating Keywords
FOrms - (Successful Coaching) Coach
FOrms- (Successful Student-Athlete) Student- Athlete
RElated terms- (Coach) Mentor, Leader, Manager, Teacher.
RElated terms- (Athlete) Student, Learner, Follower.
Synonymous Terms- (Student-Athlete) Student, learner, player, team-mate, team member.
Ladder Of Generalization- Sport, Student Sport, High School Sport, Coach, Team, Athlete, Student- Athlete.
Monday, September 7, 2009
RJA #3b
After my initial searching of my topic of what a good coach is I know that I need to refine my question to what my paper is going to be about. I think I need to change it to more of what defines successful coaching? I just need to find the right way to word it and get a solid direction I suppose. I will have to keep searching an refining that question to my paper. I am still excited to research about coaching in general and from starting this research I have considered getting my minor in coaching on top of my Physical Education degree. We will have to see what happens.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
RJA #3a
Starting to do my search I just searched for a more specific direction that I wanted to go with my paper. I am trying to develop a question that my paper will address and follow. The first place I found when searching was a book called Sport Psychology for Coaches by Damon Burton. It was intriguing to read. It talked about developing a coaching philosophy and why it is important for coaches to do that. While talking about coaching psychology it had an interesting diagram of where you would set your priorities as a coach from excellence centered through neutral to winning centered.
The next part gave examples of where certain coaches might lie on the chart. The first coach was the legend of Bobby Knight. Though having many wins does not seem like his priorities were for his players to be excellence centered but more for the winning factor of the spectrum. The coach that they praised on was coach John Wooden, the famous UCLA basketball coach who valued development and learning over winning. Yet Wooden had a impressive coaching career with taking his team to the NCAA championship 10 times in 12 years, 88 consecutive wins, and numerous all-american and NBA players.
What gives making his players value success of the player over the success over the team? Wooden has a coaching philosophy pyramid. Building blocks on what will make a successful program. Wooden had a great quote, "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best you are capable of becoming"
I would like to stive in becoming a great coach with the right values such as John Wooden.
Monday, August 31, 2009
RJA #2b
I had to really think hard on what I wanted to write on. I always find that to be the hardest part about writing a paper. I decided to write about coaching and what defines a good coach. If it was the amount of wins in a season or the types of people your athletes become. I think there is give and take on both sides but there is a lot of information to gather before I get into all that.
The things I already know about "good" coaching is from being a coach myself of multiple sports. I not only had coaches my whole life playing sports but have had the opportunity to coach both girls and boys. I have seen things in my life that I don't think reflect what makes a good coach and also what helps coaches and teams thrive!
I have never really done research on coaching specifically and the traits that can make a good or bad coach. I want to see what information is out there on what successful coaching entails. I hope to become a better coach myself from researching what successful ways of going about coaching are and if there are certain things I need to stay away from with coaching styles!
RJA #2a
A topic that I have been looking into for my research paper was abortion but that can become too political. I then thought more along the lines of my major, physical education, and thought about doing discipline in the schools today. I kept thinking about it and what I could be really interested in for the semester enough to really dive into some research. I came to the conclusion that I should write about what I love doing right now; coaching!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Research Journal Assignment #1 Areas of Academic Interest
- Sports / Physical Education
- History
- Psychology
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