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In this instructor guide, written by G. Clayton Stoldt, Stephen W. Dittmore, and Scott E. Branvold, you can find a summary of each book chapter, sample lecture outlines, student assignments/activities with suggestions regarding how instructors may utilize those activities, selected readings that will enable instructors and students to expand their examination of topics addressed in each chapter, and tips for presenting selected key topics for each chapter. The instructor guide also contains ...
The LMS format includes a pool of questions that can be used to build tests within Learning Management Systems such as Blackboard or Moodle. Test questions are provided in Blackboard Test Pool format for use with Blackboard versions 6.3 to 9.0. IMS Question & Test Interoperability (QTI) 1.1+ Test Packages(for use with other Learning Management Systems that support IMS QTI) Test questions are also provided in IMS QTI 1.1+ format for use with other Learning Management Systems such as Moodle or...
Most team sites have a wide range of information, including team rosters and individual player biographies, game schedules and results, coaching staff information, game and cumulative individual and team statistics, archived historical records, personnel updates (recruiting, trades, injuries, roster moves), facility information, staff directories, and visitor information. The second way that sport organizations use their websites as a community relations tool is by promoting direct-contact ...
Sport organizations command a high level of media attention, so sport managers should consider developing a media policy. Organizations should therefore have an employee media policy stating that only the organization’s public relations office will speak to the media. To minimize these intrusions, many sport organizations adopt media policies that set aside specific times when coaches and athletes will be available to speak with the media.
The popularity of social media and video sharing sites has created an additional avenue for organizations to post their video news releases. The organization should strive for usage rights as broad as possible that permit the organization to use pictures made by the photographer in media guides, programs, websites, posters, and other organizational media without paying a royalty to the photographer. Usage rights should also clarify whether the organization can provide the photos to news ...
In addition to Sport Public Relations, Stoldt has published six book chapters and 37 articles in academic and professional publications, and he has made several presentations on the subject of sport public relations at various academic and professional conferences. Stoldt is a member of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) and the College Sports Information Directors of America. He is on the editorial board for the International Journal of Sport Communication and is a ...
Listen to author Stephen Cabral discuss his book. Stephen Cabral was voted the 2011 PFP Personal Trainer of the Year and has completed more than 15,000 private training sessions since 1999, helping athletes, CEOs, doctors, stay-at-home moms, and everyone in between reach their goals. In addition to his writing and training network, Stephen Cabral has shot more than 100 fitness videos that have been seen by well over 3 million viewers online.
After her breakout run in the Australian Open, including a quarterfinal win over Serena Williams, American Sloane Stephens is sitting pretty in 2013—and so is her clothing and shoe sponsor, Under Armour. But in the retail trenches of the 15 billion dollar women’s fitness apparel market, Under Armour and peers like Williams’ Nike are being challenged by an upstart that doesn’t even have a proper tennis line, let alone a WTA spokeswoman: Vancouver-based lululemon athletica. Unlike Under ...
Stephen Roth, author of Genetics Primer for Exercise Science and Health, offers expertise regarding a young boy who is considered genetically gifted, assumed to carry some specific gene mutation that contributes to outstanding physical performance. A recent TV documentary profiled Liam Hoekstra, a toddler in Michigan whose parents had noted his unusual gifts of coordination and strength and therefore sought expert opinion on the child’s condition. The underlying theme is that Liam is ...
Stephen McGregor, PhD, lead author of The Runner’s Edge (Human Kinetics, November 2009), claims that by using speed and distance devices, runners of all levels can maximize performance. A speed and distance device measures elapsed time, distance covered, speed/pace, and elevation change. Each model comes with performance management software, but McGregor also highlights Training Peaks WKO+, which works with all speed and distance devices.
