http://www.bizoffootball.com/
The Biz of Football is a really cool website that looks into seemingly all business aspects of football. For those of our students that may have difficulty in relating the information taught in their business courses to real life applications, The Biz of Football provides an excellent platform to stoke their interest. Some of the many topics delved into by this website are the salary cap, corporate sponsorships, the NFL's television "blackout" policy, collective bargaining agreements and network rights fee's just to name a few. I feel that The Biz of Football would be of particular value to those students already have an interest in football but have yet to realize the extent to which business and football are intertwined.
Music Business Resources for Students
http://www.mustard-mg.com/
Similar to The Biz of Football, Music Business Resources for Students taps into the interests that some of our students have away from the classroom and relates them to the study of business. The site is produced by a music professional and is a compilation of his learnings from years of being in the music industry. Music Resources for Business Students has sections that include an industry overview, contracts, copyright issues, agents, do it yourself record labels and promotion among many others. This site would be a very valuable resource for connecting with our students that have an interest in the music business.
Following our class discussions of looking for the hook to encourage reading and writing, this site is a a good example. While the site devotes a large effort to reporting current events and news from the NFL and not as much about business aspects, a business teacher could easily draw from many of the articles in an effort to engage student interested in sports. The site even links to multiple sports to find the most appealing for the student, if it is not football. For better or worse, sports has become a business in addition to a source of entertainment and, as such, allows business students to examine topics such as salaries, the business and politics of new stadiums and marketing. As seen on this site, the most obvious source for teaching marketing is the Super Bowl and the ads that have become such an integral part of the game. This site is a great source of information and offers countless opportunities for a business teacher to develop lesson plans, reasearch projects or to possibly ensure life-long interest in reading.
ReplyDeleteWhat better topics than sports and music to get students excited about reading and writing? I think these sites could prove very interesting to teenagers whether they choose football or music. Great find!
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