Game Changing App in PE

Upper School PE teacher and Varsity Field Hockey coach, Ginny Hofmann, along with many of the coaches at GA have a new assistant on the field in the form of an APP called Coaches Eye that is radically transforming real time video capture analysis of an athlete's form.  According to Hofmann who has been using this tool most recently with students in their Archery unit, "Coach’s Eye lets me film students in my PE classes and then send them clips via e-mail that they can watch. I can record a student, draw corrective form lines on the touch screen, record a voice over describing how to alter and fix form, and email it to the individual. I sent all my archery students clips of them shooting so they could see their technique with in a matter of minutes." Ginny Hoffman reports that,  "Students enjoy seeing themselves on film but also it helps them realize what they are doing. Often students think they are using correct form when in fact they are doing something completely different. It helps recognize mistakes and then provides an immediate correction with visible proof of the change."