The Dartfish Video Coach training course is a first level course designed to educate on the basics of digital video analysis and Dartfish software and hardware. Students and professionals will attend eight hours of training and will be able to demonstrate an introductory understanding of the software and hardware processes used to shoot, capture, analyze and distribute digital video using Dartfish. The application of Dartfish to all sports and academic disciplines will be profiled. Current Dartfish users will learn how to more efficiently utilize Dartfish in their organizations.

The following topics will be covered: Introduction to Digital Video Analysis & Dartfish, Equipment Requirements & Setup, the Player and Library Modules, Digital Video Input and Output, the In-the-Action Module, the Analyzer Module, Media Books, the StroMotion Module, the SimulCam Module, the Tagging Module and Dartfish TV.

Participants will also have access to SUNY Cortland’s student technology core for support for six months after training.

Previous experience with digital video filming and analysis is helpful but not required.

The Dartfish Video Coach Certification exam is available for students to take once the course is completed. Certification exams are also given at the end of each semester in the Sport Media & Technology Learning Center on campus. The cost is $75 per attempt.

The cost of each training session is $395 per person for professionals and $295 for full-time students. A 10 percent discount will be given to organizations who sign up five or more for a training session. If you are interested in signing up for either training date, contact Daniel DePerno at depernod@cortland.edu.

The event, titled “Engaging the Video Generation,” will consist of a “Technology for Learning Symposium” that features demonstrations of new software from Dartfish, interactive presentations from classroom and sport digital video experts and the announcement of SUNY Cortland as the Dartfish Northeast Training Center (NTC).

Symposium attendees will learn from specialists in both academics and athletics about how Dartfish greatly enhances teaching and coaching. Through three interactive sessions, it will be shown how sport industry professionals, biomechanists, trainers, coaches and classroom teachers are utilizing this ground-breaking software solution.

Attendees will also receive an option for three months use of the new Dartfish Communicator 08 software with remote control for free, a $100 voucher to use toward any future purchase of Dartfish software and dinner the evening of March 25 compliments of Dartfish (for the first 50 who register by Friday, February 29).

Dartfish Communicator 08, which will be presented at the symposium, is designed to bring instruction to life by giving easy-to-use feedback of presentations, performances, exercises and experiments in any discipline or sport. A one-click color-coded system records and plays the parts chosen to highlight in a video or a series of videos. Teachers and coaches can simply point and click to make their video selections and then play them back for individual or group viewing. A delay timer can also be set so that groups of students can receive immediate video feedback without anyone having to operate the computer or camera.

To further meet the training needs of existing and future Dartfish users, the Dartfish NTC at SUNY Cortland will also be established at the event. Located in the Sport Media & Technology Learning Center in the Studio West Building on campus, the Dartfish NTC will offer several levels of customized, discipline-specific training and certification programs for all Dartfish software solutions.

For more information about Dartfish, visit www.dartfish.com. To register for the symposium, contact Lani Hosley at lani.hosley@dartfish.com.

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Friday, they announced the University is the new training center for the system. Dartfish is video analysis software used mostly for sports teams, but it has other applications, too.

"We're first and foremost a teaching institution and this is a maravillous tool that we can use in a variety of different disciplines. We've talked a lot about of course exercise science and sports management, but take for example, teacher education where you have a teacher in the classroom session. You can actually film what they're doing and go back a few weeks later and observe them again," said SUNY Cortland President, Erik Bitterbaum.

The school's new Sport Media & Technology Learning Center includes laptop computers and digital cameras with the Dartfish software.

Cortland High School may soon be making a name itself in the high-tech world. The district is looking to bring state-of-the-art video software used by world premier athletes into the classroom.

District Superintendent, Laurence Spring, said "Having our kids exposed to some cutting edge technologies and business models I think is some of the best education we can offer them."

The high-tech learning will be provided by DARTFISH Video Software Solutions. Its product has been used by major league baseball and on NBC during the Olympics.

DARTFISH USA President, Victor Bergonzoli, said "DARTFISH is entering as well as into the education world for physics teaching, art, video, and science in general where video plays an essential role."

Cortland Physics teacher James Overhiser got a first-hand look at how the program can be implemented into his science classes.

"What it has the capability of doing, connecting the video and real life stuff with the mechanics you always teach in physics,” Overhiser said. “It's the thing physics teachers have been waiting for all there lives."

The president of DARTFISH says he's eager to form a relationship with Cortland High School because of the education offered there and it's near Cortland State. The college is already using the software and serves as a training ground for the product.

Daniel DePerno, SUNY Cortland Assistant Professor of Sport Management, said "In order to fully learn any topic it is beneficial to see what you're doing and analyze it on digital video. Dartfish provides a tool to do that, whether you're teaching, learning or doing research."