Students are working on their video analysis

After videoing a visiting basketball professional I was now ready for the students to analysis their videos

I shared the video of the professional with the students through the sharing option on the vidalyze site.

Before I the students analyzed, I had to explain what they were looking for. This meant going through the bi-mechanical principles and applying them to a basketball shot

Key components i have recognized are balance and stability, force summation and anatomy of joints and forces.



After this analysis they should be able to grasp their thei technique failing and also what they are doing correctly

Students video themselves performing a basketball free throw

Last week The student in my class videoed their basketball free throw from two angles

As a teacher I videoed the shot and the then e mailed the file to the students g mail account. I decided this was the best process as I wanted to have control of the clip , the length and the scope. The analysis the students will have autonomy over.

Once they can see was sort of video is required for a skill video analysis I will allow the students to video themselves

Students then uploaded the video from their g mail accounts into vidalyze. As long as this was done with a netbook their were now issues. Other devises required a file converter.

The pedogoical process to this was interesting. When the teacher was involved in videoing it was difficult to see to the technical issues. the more the students are involved in the process the more the teacher can direct their attention to the issues that arise. As the students didn't all have netbooks by the end of the lesson some students had fully uploaded their video to their site and some hadn't. Some students choose to be confident bystanders and make excises why they couldn't upload the video. I would suggest this was because they were wanting to play basketball. Engaging these disengaged students is one of the goals for the project

Technical stumbles

Learning some of the technique aspects to video analysis has been interesting

First of all exporting student details out of KAMAR into a excel spreadsheet where the information could be uploaded kept hitting snags. The process took a number of hours. It would have been easier to manually type in the class details as things like birth dates could not be uploaded because of formatting issues. Also e mail address were not on KAMAR

Secondly I found that on some devises the software would not convert a MOV video and would instaed prefer MP4. After mucking around trying and waiting patiently I found a quick video conversion website by typing in 'MOV to MP4 conversion' This solved this issue

The one advantage of this issue was getting in contact with the vidaylze developer Jarrod Robinson. This connection was an unexpected benefit of the technical problems I was having. He also alerted me to the new developments in the software including web-casting.

You tube ripping is something I am still looking for solutions too. You tube makes it hard to download their content. When you free a frer site that does this often the next week it has been shut down. For the purpose of what I am doing I have now decided to use models from within the community for students to do their comparisons. Best you tube to Mp4 convertor

It was integral for me to work this out before I unleashed the students onto the software. I needed to understand issue that they would encounter and be able to work through this with them. I also needed to be prepared to deal with these to ensure the students did not disengage with the process. The process of video analysis needs to be easy and simple so not to discourage students that aren't confident in a digital world