Final Reflection

I learned a lot during this class. Before coming into this class I pretty much knew nothing regarding technology. I could use facebook and email and could search somewhat efficiently although half the time I wouldn't be able to find what I was looking for. I now am able to do a variety of things, even make movies and upload them to youtube! That was probably the most difficult assignment for me, youtube was difficult.
I think I will probably use some forms of technology in my class. I will most definitely let my students know about google docs because I think it is awesome, I would also be interested in having my students create a psa like we did for a healthy lifestyle. Pedometers are not something we talked about in this class but they are a form of technology that would be very useful in my classroom setting. I also think there are some phone apps that would be useful that I would encourage my students to use to enable a more active lifestyle.
This class has done some for the way that I view teaching. In the majority of my classes in high school the only use of technology was powerpoint which I am not the biggest fan of. In college it has been pretty much the same adding in blackboard and whatnot. I think that technology is a wonderful thing even though we don't always get along. This course has helped me better understand it and work with it more easily. Technology can be very useful in helping students get the most out of their education, even in the physical education setting. It is there for our benefit and can be used for good or for bad. It is my plan to use it for good in my class.

Studio Code Reflection

During this project I have learning a lot about my management and instruction while teaching. For the most part there is a lot that I can improve on and work on to make my teaching more effective and efficient. My use of equipment throughout the lesson is good and helps to move the lesson along. Signals used are good and effective in getting the students attention. Demonstrations were a little weak and they could use improvement. I use when I say go a lot and it is effective in maintaining control of the students. I did demonstrate cues but as I was coding my lesson I feel that there should have been more instances where I could have coded giving and repeating cues.
As I teach next semester I plan to be more conscious of my use of jargons. I say you guys a lot and I feel that if I am more conscious of this in the future I will be able to cut it out of my teaching vocabulary. I will make my demonstrations more frequent. Demonstrating as I walk around the class in order for the students to have a clear idea of what it is they are supposed to be doing. As I demonstrate I will repeat the cues. Cues should be repeated very often.

studio code

I put my video onto studio code. My first attempt I aborted because i couldn't figure it out. However I did get it done later on and it actually didn't turn out to be that hard. I think the hard part is going to be actually coding it. We shall see how it goes this week.

web 2.0 and Facebook

I think that some cool 2.0 web tools that could definitely help to further education are google docs, this site is very helpful in getting together with classmates and working on assignments. It could also be used as a teacher in working on things outside of the classroom setting. Another website is PE central which is a very good tool for teachers in the physical education setting. It gives great ideas for different situations and allows you to share ideas on the website as well. Students would be able to go to this site to look at things that would seem interesting to them and let their teacher know.
I had a friend a couple years ago who had a class where they were required to use facebook in their assignments. They were put into groups and each group created a person that was relative to the topic they were discussing, I believe it was a religion class (so each group chose a person from the scriptures and made a facebook page with their name and information and all that type of stuff correlating) then the groups were required to write to each other, making sure to keep with the scenario. I think this sounds like a good way to use facebook in order for kids to learn new information about someone and share it with others. 

Okay so apparently it didn't post, since the video is not working. So I looked at youtube and I guess it is still processing it even though it's uploaded. Hopefully it will finish soon because the lab is closing.

Yay! it worked! So this movie wasn't all that bad making, it was more of the uploading that I had mass frustrations with.

The link to look at Krissy's video is krissyple.blogspot.com

I really enjoy both of our movies and hope you do too!

THE MOVIE!

okay so after 5 times of trying to upload this video to youtube I finally did it. So here it is, hope you enjoy. 

Movie movie movie

Because I was having so much trouble finding children to use for my movie I decided to change my approach. My theme is fit for life so I am showing people who are being active in different activities. I can't get my video to upload onto youtube, it's taking forever!