Hydration for young soccer players
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WebsiteProjectInstructions1.docxWebsite Project Instructions HN 516 Winter 2018 Joubert
The Website Project is designed in order for you to be creative with technology in relaying science-based sports nutrition information to an athletic audience. Your website needs to be completed individually. Your task is to target an existing athletic population (or sub-population- example USA NCAA division I women’s basketball players). Find credible scholarly resources to help you compile and design an easy-to-use multipage website with appropriate sports nutrition information for these athletes/coaches/staff. You are required to get specific feedback from real people within your targeted population. You are also required to review a classmate’s website.
Learning Outcomes:
With successful completion of this assignment, students will be able to…
1. Critically analyze current scientific literature and translate into lay language
1. Explore credible resources of basic sports nutrition information pertaining to specific athletic group/population
1. Target a specific audience, identify common sports nutrition problems, and create content accordingly to fit the audience’s needs
1. Use technology to display/convey sports nutrition information
1. Help disseminate information to athletic populations in a modern way
1. Evaluate a variety of websites for quality/sound sports nutrition information
1. Be accountable for information shared on the worldwide web
Criteria:
The following basic components need to be included within your website:
1. Proper hydration strategies for training and performance
1. Appropriate fuel (at the very least include at least one of these: by training phase; by pre/during/post training; by race/event competition; by condition of injury/rehab)
1. Issues of concern with appropriate resources (what are the biggest issues of concern with the sport you chose? Gender? Target audience?)
1. About me section (explain who you are and that this is an assigned project for HN516 Sports Nutrition Course at Northern Michigan University with the date it was created; include your credentials/brief biography; include your e-mail address so audience can contact you with questions they may have and/or include a ‘leave a comment’ section)
1. Resource weblinks (sport specific governing agency, appropriate sports nutrition professional agencies and professionals)
1. References (peer reviewed journal articles) should be within the text and link the reader to the full citation on your references webpage on your website. When the reader clicks on the full text citation it should link them to the pdf or webpage with the abstract and/or full article.
1. Wow Factor (something that makes your audience want to stay on your site; examples may include an interactive graphic, video clip of yourself presenting a scholarly sports nutrition topic, animated graph that reinforces the literature, a creative calculator that helps a person figure out fluid needs, etc.)
Helpful Hints:
Your grade will be assessed via the grading rubric. Be sure to cite all pictures you use appropriately. Double check to make sure all hyperlinks to other webpages work properly. Use scholarly science-based information (aka peer reviewed journal articles) to create your webpages. Explore professional websites (even sports nutrition products) to get ideas for how to organize your website. The “Wow Factor” can be a variety of things – use your imagination, creativity, seek opinions from your audience, classmates, coaches, and/or teachers. Don’t struggle with this assignment quietly - seek help from the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Help Desk, your instructor, classmates and/or folks with more experience in the technology field.
