Week 7 Learning Entry

This week we discussed digital storytelling, which I found out was movies and pictures mixed together. This is a very interesting spin on just pictures. I thought using animoto was very simple, but when I tried to use imovie I had the most difficult time. I still do not know how to mix videos and photos.
The only way I think digital storytelling fits into sport management is if you have a presentation to make or if you are making a video for some event that took place. I think it would be really useful for presentations, an example being that if someone wanted to persuade another that UF was the best place for college sports, they could put a video together of all the championship wins and the activities that go on around the campus. So I think this is useful to spice up just a regular slide show or video, but something that does not truly effect sport management.

Digitales is a website that I found from googling. I used this source because it has workshops that people can attend to learn how to make videos and use digital storytelling. The camp is open to anyone for any purpose and they have multiple choices of length for the camp. I found it pretty interesting because it is basically what we learned for adults.

Week 3 Learning Entry

The Internet is changing! it is now Web 2.0. The new phase of the Internet is very helpful and extremely more entertaining. Users can now not only read material, they are able to participate in just about any thing. From wikis and blogs to social networking sites. Web technology is growing and should be accepted as opposed to rejected in every business, corporation, or field.

In sport management, enabling a more participation based user would be very useful. Since everything is changing so quickly, from technology to the standards in an industry, my idea is to create some sort of web 2.0 application specifically for sport managers and others in this field of study. People could update information that has worked for them and their company and the ideas and information that has failed. It would be very helpful to know what is the "new standard" or does or does not work. Sport companies are always trying to expand in new areas, gain more revenue by some way, and change how certain things are done. This sort of application would be very useful for those trying a new idea or area. It would also cut down on company expenditures for failed experiments, if it has already been tried in another company. One downfall of this idea is that companies would be sharing some big time inside information and they might not want to participate. However, in an organization like the NFL, where all of the teams are on an equal playing field, it might work a little better.

Click here to visit the website of the North American Society for Sport Management NASSM.
I chose this website because if this application was ever going to be made, I thought it could be found on this website because it is all about sport management.

Week 4 Learning Entry

Before this week I thought copyright specificallyy protected the owner, however, now I realize that it protects the user as well. I think most people only know that it protects the owner. I also learned from the Copyright website that what is stated as against the law is not all encompassing. The rights of copyright and owners is unlimited.

In the sport management curriculum, copyright and plagiarism is a very pressing issue. We also learn about licensing, which is similar to copyright. Licensing is the act of selling the right to use a specific logo. For example the numerous companies that sell Gator gear must pay a fee to use the Gator logo and any of its affiliated symbols. When you purchase the license you are unable to change or alter that logo or symbol. It normally is not done, because you purchase a license to use that specific logo. Licensing is not just associated with sport management, although trademarking and copyright is usually associated with other fields.

Licensing is such a big deal in the sport world, that there are conferences around the world. There are many people that work specifically with licensing agreements.
You can click here to view the International Licensing Expo. I chose this website because it is very interesting and you can learn who licenses their product and name.

Week 5 Learning Entry

This is the week that we started Photoshop. I am pretty excited to be working on photoshop. For previous jobs with photographers, I worked with the software, however, I was only told what to do; I never really got to explore the program. I think it is pretty hard to navigate if you don't know where all the commands and different applications are. It should get better as we move along.

Photoshop related to sport management directly through marketing and advertising, which all sport managers are knowledgeable of. Being able to manipulate a picture is a key role in these fields. Although it is an ethical issue, one must be able to perform such tasks if instructed. One might also be instructed to create a completely new picture from scratch. Before this week, I had no idea if that was even possible.

Click here to view some photoshop disasters done by professionals!
I chose this source because it proves that even professionals make mistakes too! It is not exactly the most pure content, but still pretty funny!