Passing Video

I found this new site that has step by step videos of the different parts to volleyball. The site is called Sportskool. The one that I watched was on passing. They said that the key to passing is good body position and footwork. This is true, because if you don't do your job as a passer, then the rest of the team gets off of schedule. If you have a bad pass, then you don't have a good chance of getting a good set and attack. There are even some drills to help develop leg strength and flexibility to help beginner with passing.

To get to the video, you can go under the sports link, and then go to volleyball. It will have the video's that you can view on the right hand side.

Triangle Centers Worksheet

So, this isn't about Volleyball...it's about Math, which is my major, well Math Education at least. I hope you enjoy.

What

In my Math Technology class that I took fall of 2008 I worked on a Triangle Centers worksheet with another classmate. We designed a worksheet that explained the difference between the Incenter and Circumcenter of a triangle. We used sketchpad, which is a geometry drawing tool, to give detailed instructions of how to find both of these. Then, we had the idea of talking about the Bermuda Triangle. Kind of as an explore more type of question, wondering if the Incenter and the Circumcenter were the same point for this. Mainly hypothesizing if this is where people get lost. Which if the Circumcenter and the Incenter of the triangle are the same, the students were then able to see that that triangle would be an equillateral triangle.

So What

For the most part our worksheet worked. What we had to do was switch our worksheet with another group in the class, and we decided if the instructions that were provided were written well enough. There were some parts in our instructions that were unclear, so that would need to be fixed.

Now What

If I were to use this lesson in the future, I would try to talk about the other types of centers for the triangle. I would also want to make sure that all of the directions that were stated were clear and could be understood.

Yeah Math!!

Volleyball.com

A while ago I found this website that I found useful when starting to teach volleyball. What I really liked about the site was that it has basically everything you could think about when coaching volleyball. The website that I found was www.volleyball.com. Just as easy as that. I found the sportswear on here, which would be much easier then going to a store. What I liked most about this website was the different drills that they had. They give you the rules of how to do the drill, but what is nice, is that they also have diagrams of what the drill looks like. I liked this because sometimes you are reading about something it can sound different then what it really is. This site was well organized too, which made things helpful to go around it. Everything is basically found at the top, when you go under volleyball 101.

Check it out!! It is pretty neat!

Introduction to Volleyblog

The theme that I have choosen is volleyball. I choose this because I am a coaching minor. As you can guess I would like to coach volleyball some day. I would like for this blog to be a resource for coaches. I would like to have different drills, the rules, some history, and maybe even some about what is happening in the volleyball world now.

I did find a few blogs so far that will be ones that I will try to follow.   Some of them were kept more up to date then others, so we will just see what happens with that.

The first blog that I found was The College Volleyball Coach.  This site was the one that was most kept up to date.  This blog seemed like it was mostly set up as a question and answer type of blog.  Sometimes it looked like the author just talked about whatever was on their mind in regards to coaching volleyball.  I didn't find many drills or rules, I think most of the information is about just being a coach and how to become a coach.  I selected this blog mostly because it seemed to be kept up to date.  It seems important, when following a blog, to read one that is kept up to date.  The posts on the page are all very long and wordy, which can get distracting that is for sure.  Like I said a little earlier, it is kind of a question and answer format.  They do have their blog set up with the different topics on the right side.  Most of the topics that are talked about are from questions from the readers.  But the questions are answered very well.  

The next blog that I found wasn't really kept up to date as well, but it seemed to have a little more information in regards to rules and drills.  This one was called Spike it Hard.  The goal of the writer for this blog seems to be to just talk about volleyball, kind of whatever is going on in their volleyball life.  They also said something about talking about some other sports too, but not as much as volleyball.  I did like how they had their posts set up.  Instead of taking up a ton of space you could click on the article to read more about the topic.  We looked at one like this in class the other day.  It makes everything looked a little more organized.  I selected this blog because it looked like it had some good information on it.  I really like the fact that they have pictures, which would be helpful when describing what proper form or technique looks like.  I was still searching to see if they would have any video's about volleyball as well.  The format of the blogs are nice too, like I said they are really organized.  I think they say what needs to be said without just talking a bunch.  They mostly have different clubs or schedules for the teams they are supporting on the site as well.  In some of the posts there are different links to either download something or you can go to other posts or other parts of the blog.

These were the blogs that I have found so far.  They weren't really what I was looking for, mostly just talking about their volleyball lives and not really the sport.  I hope to talk about different rules, drills, find some video's, and have pictures.  This is what I have planned so far.  Which I should be able to find some different web sites that will be some excellent resources.

Thanks for listening.  There will be more to come.  :)