Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Project #2 PLN

C4T #4

ThePhysicalEducator.com


My C4T teacher this week is Joey Feith. Joey Feith is the founder of ThePhysicalEducator.com. He currently teaches elementary physical education just outside of Montreal, Canada. Joey believes that every child should have access to a world class physical education experience, and that teacher professional development is the key to that. That is why, between lesson planning and helping kids improve their running, he has dedicated thousands of hours to creating a site that helps inspire fellow physical educators.



On his first blog I read blog #PEChat 2.0 Here Joey Feith talks about the weekly Twitter chat hosted by ThePhysicalEducator.com. Each week, hundreds of physical educators flock to Twitter to take part in this online professional development experience. The goal of #pechat is to help physical educators improve their teaching through frequent, engaging, and meaningful professional development that is focused on good teaching practice.

My comment:

My name is Laura Hamilton, and this fall I’m taking a class called EDM 310, www.edm310.blogspot.com at the University of South Alabama. This class is very important in the field I’m going into, Physical Education, and Sports Management. This class will help me learn how to evolve technology into the classroom today. I have been assigned to your blog for a few assignments for my own personal blog this fall, www.hamiltonlauraedm310.blogspot.com. I really like your blog and what you are doing with #pechat. It is a great way to help teachers improve their teaching with technology. It not only could help teachers and coaches who have been in the field brush up on new ways and technology to incorporate in the classroom. But it really helps out teachers like me, fresh out of college and have no idea where to start with lesson plans, and games. Great Blog!



My second post was Evernote Lesson Planning Workflow. This blog talks about how Joey Feith most used app on a day-to-day basis. Having all of his notes, ideas, sketches, and screenshots organized into an awesome cloud-based system is incredibly helpful. For some time now, he has used Evernote as his go-to lesson planning tool. Being able to lesson plan on-the-go and organize/search those plans based on tags and keywords is a huge help in keeping his planning organized.

My Comment:

My name is Laura Hamilton, and this fall I’m taking a class called EDM 310, www.edm310.blogspot.com at the University of South Alabama. This class is very important in the field I’m going into, Physical Education, and Sports Management. This class will help me learn how to evolve technology into the classroom today. I have been assigned to your blog for a few assignments for my own personal blog this fall, www.hamiltonlauraedm310.blogspot.com. I am very new to technology in the classroom for the most part. I really like Evernote and hope to find it as useful as you do in the classroom planning.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Blog Post #14

What can you learn from P.E. Central.


The idea of PE Central originally began in the Fall of 1995 by Dr. George Graham and the doctoral students in Virginia Tech's Health and Physical Education Program. After participating in several brainstorming sessions during this seminar it was decided that we would develop a Website that would be available on the Internet. Primarily, we wanted a place for K-12 physical educators to visit that would provide them with information and resources to help them deliver developmentally and instructionally appropriate physical education to their students. Some ideas to include on the site were assessments, health and physical education lesson ideas, job announcements, links to the top sport and instructional sites on the Web, wellness tips, and instant activities that would change on a weekly basis. Their goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children. They not only help students, but teachers, parents as well. They have everything you can ask for from lesson plans, to technology, to even job searches for teachers and coaches.


Here is a picture of their weekly Bulletin Board.
http://www.pecentral.org/BulletinBoard/BulletinBoardFeatured.asp




They even have a weekly Kids Quote of the week. Here is this week:

In PE classes, I asked, "How many of you have been on a soccer team?" A 4th grade girl yells out, " I was, I played quarterback."
Submitted by Vera Morgan in Fayetteville, NC.

C4K #10 November

My First C4K

Student: James
Teacher: Mr. Mark’s
School: Pt. England School Auckland, New Zealand.
Grade: 6th grade

Blog: Class Blog

About Blog: I chose to comment on his blog called My First Day of School. James talked about how excited he was to go to school on the first day of school. He goes through his day from writing time, all the way to lunch. He talked about how much he liked math, and math time. He had many grammar errors, and it was actually difficult to read at times.

My Comment: Hey James my name is Laura; I am a student at the University of South Alabama. I am going to school to become a Physical Education teacher (P.E.). I really like that your class is using a blog for homework and assignments! That’s pretty cool! It is neat that you like math, I am not a big fan of math, I like PE! You have many grammar errors in your blog though, make sure you proof read, or even ask your teacher if you could ask him or a friend to help you proof read. Keep blogging!



My Second C4K

Student: Amelia's
Teacher: Mrs. Jenny She
School: Little Voices, Little Scholars, Pt England School, Auckland, New Zealand
Grade: 2nd grade

Blog: Class Blog

About Blog: As part of the Literacy learning process, the children write stories and then draw pictures to illustrate their stories. Their story writing is integrated with their Topic Studies. They also record their stories in movies so that they can share them. The students of Room 6 have been learning about celebrations and this week they are looking at Chinese New Year. Amelia has illustrated her story using comic life! The class is mostly six years olds but some of them are just five. They write stories and then they draw pictures to match the stories. They use the Kid Pix programme to draw the pictures. They also record their stories in imovie so that they can share them with the rest of the world.

My Comment: Hey Amelia my name is Laura; I am a student at the University of South Alabama. I am going to school to become a Physical Education teacher (P.E.). I really like that your class is using a blog for homework and assignments! That’s pretty cool! I really like your story to. You came up with that on your own? Your drawing has many colors as well to keep your audience’s attention. Keep up the blogging!

Blog Post #13

What can we learn from these TED talks?



Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school




Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: She would undergo the traditional Maasai rite of passage of female circumcision if he would let her go to high school. Ntaiya tells the fearless story of continuing on to college, and of working with her village elders to build a school for girls in her community. It’s the educational journey of one that altered the destiny of 125 young women. Even from adverse circumstances, unlikely & disadvantaged people can, through bravery & will, create revolutionary victories. The effect she has on those kids will spread to hundreds more through them, then thousands, then millions, because that's how positive human change begins. Liberation of women is what can raise an entire society up a level. As soon as 50% of the population isn't treated like property, amazing things happen. Thank human goodness for people like Kakenya.



Mae Jemison: Teach arts and sciences together




Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one -- to create bold thinkers. People often consider the arts and sciences electives, they do not consider that the curriculum itself IS both art and science, a text book is a work of art and a work of science. At ANY age learning is GREATLY enhanced by singing, dancing, rhyming, acting, gaming and discussing, why are these all banned in the classroom? SCIENCE is the art of OBJECTIVE expression, ART is the science of SUBJECTIVE expression. I love how Dr. Jemisen gets it. Art and science are the foundation to building a functional society to progress. Art is one of the first disaplines cut in the schools. Abstract, creativity, science, art, is problem solving - new solutions.



Shane Koyczan: To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful




By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and … different. "To This Day," his spoken-word poem about bullying, captivated millions as a viral video (created, crowd-source style, by 80 animators). Here, he gives a glorious, live reprise with backstory and violin accompaniment by Hannah Epperson. He's a spoke word artist, he writes from his soul. He was bullied when he was young, impressionable & needed support, not to be brought down by those around him. Words are powerful, affecting the psyche in subtle ways.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Project #15

This is my third Project Based Learning Plan.


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My Plate Google Site

Blog Post #12




What can we learn from Sir Ken Robinson?




Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, the schools arts dropping out, and ADHD. All these points are very important points to discuss and worry about. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we are educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. This video tells us how we have been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance.





There are 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk Kin Robinson tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility. Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children in a creative way. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.





Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.Creativity expert Ken Robinson challenges the way we are educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.



To be honest, there will always be people who will put you down because you think of things that they don't or because you see things in a different way, but at the same time, in college, I have yet to run into a single instructor who has put me down for being creative. The instructors at my college South Alabama are always pushing their students to think outside the box and do their best no matter what the goal is. I'd have to say that college is a much better experience than high school ever was.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Project #10 Interview

This is my video podcast Project #10, of Lindsey Grosz, from Saraland Middle School, Physical Education.



Project #12 SMARTboard

This is my Project #12 SMART board Tutorial Video on some basic SMARTboard tools.