Week 12 Learning Entry

This week we began discussing our Professional Web Presence Project and learning how to utilize the Google Sites. Google Sites allows someone to make a website for no charge and makes is quite simple. The site is created based on certain layouts and color schemes so that the site can be personalized, but also making it easy for just about anyone to use. The site allows for anyone to make their own website for any reason or purpose.

Google sites would not be particularly useful in the field of sport management, but would be useful on a personal basis. Using the site to create a professional web page was interesting and could be used in the future as a tool for applying to jobs. I think that as my experience in my field increases it would be very useful to add to my page.

I chose to add a video about Google Sites. After watching it I learned more about Google sites and what it could be used for. I was also able to learn how to do certain things in Google sites, this way I know what to do and I am not searching for how to.
Click here to watch the video.

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 2 Learning Entry

During this week, we discussed how the world is changing, is aspect to technology. We watched the "Did you Know" videos. I had already watched the one from a few years ago, but the video for 2009, its content was truly shocking. We also went over the Mac computers and operating system. The ability to use either operating system is beneficial in every field of expertise. In sport management, the use of computers comes in handy quite often. In each different organization that one might work in, they might have a different operating system. Being able to operate both on a Mac and a PC makes me feel as if I am more computer literate. Although I hate to admit it, but Mac seems to be the system that will be used most often in the future. Being able to navigate a computer might give me an advantage over someone who can not.

I am a PC and will probably always be a PC, unless Mac lowers it prices! David Letterman made his own PC/Mac commercial. You can view it here. I chose this source because in the video, Letterman express his annoyance with the PC/Mac commercials. As am I!