Football Foundation TV

The media section of the Football Foundation website, includes the Football Foundation Resource. The are a number of video clips covering the community aspect of football, including the Kickz project and the film "love the game". The film won the Silver Award for the Public Relations category at the IVCA Awards 2008(International Visual Communication Association).

More Job Opportunities!

Jump on the 2012 bandwagon! There are currently three student placements and two full-time education-related job opportunities with London 2012. To learn more about jobs at London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), visit their sites or go to Podium/London 2012. 

And, for some fantastic views of the Olympic site in London and the latest construction, go to  London 2012 Webcams.

East London Lives 2012 Digital Archive

The East London Lives 2012 Digital Archive project , contains images, videos and blogs that trace the development of East London, as they prepare for the Olympic Games 2012.

JISC Web2practice

'The web2practice guides explain how new web technologies like RSS, microblogging and social media can enhance your working practice.'

Each of the guides has an animated video explaining the concepts behind the technology and supporting material that can be printed. The guide and its resources can be downloaded, modified and shared under a creative commons licence.

Topics currently available include;

■Social Media
■RSS
■Collaborative Writing
■Podcasting
■Microblogging

www.sportdevelopment.org.uk - re-launch

In September the www.sportdevelopment.org.uk website is being re-launched to www.sportdevelopment.info.

The updated site has a number of new sections, there is a section for jobs that is updated daily, a “what’s new” page so that you can see what has been added recently, and probably the most important new feature; a dynamic list of “related content” for each document that you view.

The site still has the "Ruff guides”, which give the students a broad overview of a topic and these have been extended, to include; a Ruff Guide to Football Research, Ruff guide to Olympic legacy, Ruff Guide to Playing to Win (2008) and a Ruff Guide to Talent Development .

NING technology

'Ning is the social platform for interests and passions online
It offers an easy-to-use technology platform enabling you to create and join Ning Networks for your interests and passions'. Having had a look at this technology it seems to be a combination of facebook, blogs and jisc lists all in one!!! There are a number of library based networks, often with an international flavour. You can find more out about Ning, from their website.

New look Intute

Intute has had a make over, we hope you like the new design.

Hospitality, leisure, Sport and Tourism sits underneath the Social Sciences heading and has its own blog.

The Virtual Training Suite (VTS) has also been redesigned, and has 31 new tutorials. The MyIntute personalisation functionality has also improved.

There are several ways you can intereact: comment on a blog post, comment on a record, rate a record, suggest or site or send us some feedback via our online form.

Why not share your thoughts?

For those of you who weren't able to come our event the other week (and for those who were and would like a reminder!) there are video highlights of Dimtrios Buhalis' presentation available here. With many thanks to Kate Varini who recorded the presentation and to Dimitrios for permission to make it available.

Photos from the event will be available on the website shortly.

The Greek Islands come to Birmingham!

On a slightly lighter note and with the temperatures forecast to rise during the week, thoughts are turning to holidays! So between the 26 June - 2 July the popular city centre beach returns to Chamberlain Square in Birmingham, this year sponsored by Monarch. Free and open daily, the beach will be a great family friendly attraction, and will also provide an idyllic urban oasis for city centre workers and visitors to relax.

Click here for more details

Monarch will be partnering with Birmingham City Council and local radion stations to host an urban beach which will transform the city centre location into an oasis of activity!

SPRIG Annual Event - Join Us in LONDON!

It's what you've been waiting for! The SPRIG Annual Event is happening on 19th June at Westminster Kingsway College's Victoria Campus, London.

The topic this year is eTourism and we have some superb speakers: the eTourism 'guru' Professor Dimitrios Buhalis (Bournemouth University) will be giving us an update on all things 'e' and 'tourism'! And we can't visit London without hearing more about London 2012 from Gareth Smith of Podium: The Further and Higher Education Unit for the 2012 Games! A roundtable discussion will be initiated by Fiona Murray, University College Birmingham, and focus on the uptake and use by students of new technologies - we want your opinions! Following lunch, private tours will be conducted of the fantastic Gastronomy Collection at Westminster Kingsway.

The event promises to be fun and informative. Network with your peers, get in a day of CPD (Continuing Professional Development) and enjoy!

SPRIG members attend for FREE (non-members pay £15 at the door or free if you join SPRIG on the day). Places are limited! To RSVP or to learn more, see the SPRIG website or email: chair@sprig.org.uk or janine.mills@instituteofhospitality.org or telephone Janine at 020 8661 4930. See you there!

See you in London on 19th June!

SPRIG's Annual EVENT will be held this year in London at Westminster Kingsway College's Victoria Campus on Friday, 19th June beginning with a 10:30 am registration/coffee/networking. The topic this year is eTourism and we have as our Keynote Speaker, Prof Dimitrios Buhalis - the etourism 'guru' from Bournemouth University! Private tours of the very special Gastronomy Collection will be given in the afternoon.

What better way to spend a Friday in London than networking with your HLST peers! Stay tuned to the SPRIG website to learn the details.

Early RSVP to janine.mills@instituteofhospitality.org

Speaking of Tweets

The Institute of Hospitality has added its presence to Twitter. If you're interested in what this global hospitality management professional association has to 'tweet' then visit http://twitter.com/IoH_online. Many SPRIG members are also members of the Institute's Education Membership Scheme so don't forget to visit the EMS Blog!

HLST Tweet

Hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism resources from Intute: Social Sciences can now be picked up via the 'intutehlst' twitter feed at: http://twitter.com/intutehlst This is updated on a daily basis

Rate and review resources

It is now possible to let people know what you think of a resource that is in Intute, share experiences of how you have used a resource in your learning and teaching or just let us know of a broken link that we may have missed. You can also rate resources on a scale of 1-5 on how good/useful you think they are. For an example, please see this record for WinEcon, which is an interactive learning package for teaching economics, business economics and mathematics.

Legacy now - gains beyond the Games

Legacy is a public sector partnership led by the London Development Agency, working on the social, physical and economic legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games. This website contains information on initiatives and events relating to the design and post-Games use of the Olympic Park. There is also a general news section, publications and a picture gallery

Leisure Tourism Database

Leisure Tourism Database is a leading database on leisure, tourism, hospitality and recreation information, it has over 70 000 research abstracts, from over 400 publications in the areas of Arts and Entertainment, General Leisure and Recreation , Hospitality Sector, Sport, Tourism, Travel and Technology.

Whether you subscribe to the service of not, it is possible to get regular updates, simply send a message to leisuretourism-join@lists.cabi.org. You will then receive monthly e-mail updates notifying you of any additions such as new books, calendar additions and news updates, along with sample abstracts and any other developments.

Win a £50 voucher

Intute staff believe it is important to know whether users find our service useful for their work and what they use it for. The only way for us to find out is to ask you!

During March, Intute will be running a survey and respondents will be entered into a weekly draw with chances to win £50 Amazon Vouchers.

Please help us to ensure that Intute meets your needs by completing this short online survey; it only takes about 5 minutes to complete. We would be very grateful if you could publicise this to interested users/potential users, including academic staff.

Many thanks.

Teacher Training Resource Bank

The Teacher Training Resource Bank, is a subject gateway officially launched in April 2006 following extensive consultation with the sector. It's initial aims were to make the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) professional knowledge base more easily accessible, to reference effective practices in all subject areas and to increase the quality and range of ITE resources available.

It is a well structured site and easy to use. It's sections include on Teaching and Learning, Mentoring and an e-librarian option.

Coaching Resource Database

The Coaching Resource Database is available via the Sports Coach UK website. The database is;

• a central accessible source for coaching research,
• ensures that researchers, academics and others are aware of the latest coaching research, and finally
• ensures that the future direction of coaching research is situated within the context of the wider literature, and addresses research gaps.

The resource is useful for both academic and student level enquiries.

Information Guides

New Information Guides for Hospitality and Catering, Sport and Tourism are now available on the Sprig website.

FREE Hospitality Reports!

FREE Hospitality Industry Reports! Check out the reports (upon free registration) offered by People1st, the sector skills council for Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism. The reports are current with very good quality data and statistics. A fantastic resource for hospitality research! See: http://www.people1st.co.uk/

African Connections and English Football

This is a seminar organised by the Centre for the International Business of Sport (CIBS)
Venue: Humber Lecture Theatre, Coventry University
Time: 14.00-17.30. Entrance is free and all are welcome
Date: 12th March 2009

Speakers: Chris Nathaniel, founder of NVA Management and sports agent (e.g. to Rio Ferdinand), Cyrille Regis, football agent, The Stellar Group Professor John Oucho, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick Dr Gary Armstrong, Reader in the Sociology of Sport, Brunel University Oneyachi Wambo, Afford (African Foundation for Development) Ade Daramy, Editor-in-Chief of Mano Vision Gugu Ntuli, University of Stellenbosch

To reserve a place, please contact: John Mair: j.mair@coventry.ac.uk

Intute: Social Sciences update

The following browse headings for Sport and Leisure Practice in Intute: Social Sciences have been updated:
the History, Jobs and careers, Law, Organisations, Statistics and Psychology sections have merged to include resources in both sport and leisure

I have also set up a twitter account:
intutehlst will be regularly updated with blog postings and new resources that are added to the HLST sections of Intute: Social Sciences

Online Sport Exhibtion - Liverpool Museum

Online exhibition

This online exhibition is the only place you can see this unusual collection of sports-related items, ranging from pictures of the Titanic and Olympic Gymnasium, to a section on the Hillsborough disaster. All of the objects represent different areas of the varied collections at National Museums Liverpool's eight venues. Some of the items shown are either delicate or light-sensitive, so they are not usually on public display.

When you have linked to the website, click on the thumbnails below to see a larger picture and find out more about each object.

RSS Feeds for Sport

RSS Feeds are an effective way to keep up to date with news in your subject area. Some RSS options for sport include;

- UK Sport
- Department of Culture, Media and Sport
- London 2012

The BBC site, The Feed Factory gives an introduction to the RSS feeds that are available from bbc.co.uk. You can use the Feed Finder to find some of the BBC recommended feeds from across the bbc.co.uk site, and it gives some background information to using RSS.

RSS links are also available in the blog for Ariadne and EDUCAUSE resources.