1/27/17
This week in class, we looked over in great detail things that other students have done with their moodle classes in the past semesters. We discussed what kinds of things should be in our moodles and how we would go about putting them into the course itself. We then briefly went through each of our developing moodles to see what everyone was thinking about teaching and the topics that they chose to post information about. We were shown again how to change the sections from weeks to topics and how to name them afterwards.
I personally was introduced to a lot of new technology including Screencast-o-matic, Voki, Padlet, and Rubistar. I have yet to find good uses for these things in my classroom, but I anticipate to find a way to put each of these pieces of technology into action before the semester is over.
We then finished by discussing the ID plan and how we needed to write the plan to support our moodle. Dr. Sponder gave us an outline for this homework assignment with all of the information that we needed to know and we are supposed to copy and paste it to Word and save it to a PDF to submit to the class.
Friday, January 27, 2017
PLN #2
1/27/17
I attended a webinar today on Pickleball through SPARK PE and their website. They offer many free webinars on different subjects in Physical Education which was unknown to me. I was very surprised to find how many webinars there are for Physical Education. In my mind, Physical Education was a hard subject to teach over a webinar because of the physical nature of the class. The webinar went over the rules of the game and how it was a good bridge between a badminton and tennis unit. A brief history was also discussed and how the game came to be in existence. The webinar also went over a method of teaching that I learned while at CCSU for my undergrad. The tactical games method gives students who are not playing at any particular time jobs to complete as they wait for their time on the court. The approach also sets up the class in a game-skill-game order so students are bookending skill development with gameplay.
Sunday, January 22, 2017
PLN #1
PLN #1
As I researched scholarly articles for Physical Education, I came across an article on http://www.livestrong.com/ that talked about all of the benefits of Physical Education in schools. Most of these ideas were ones that I had known previously but it is an article that I feel more people should know about. In my experience, I haven't seen Physical Education expanding in schools across the country, and it is usually one of the first things to get cut from a budget. For example, in my school only freshman and sophomores are required to take Physical Education. If more schools and administrators were aware of this information, then Physical Education programs across the country might be able to expand. The article touches on the physical, academic, and social benefits of Physical Education.
Benefits of Physical Education
As I researched scholarly articles for Physical Education, I came across an article on http://www.livestrong.com/ that talked about all of the benefits of Physical Education in schools. Most of these ideas were ones that I had known previously but it is an article that I feel more people should know about. In my experience, I haven't seen Physical Education expanding in schools across the country, and it is usually one of the first things to get cut from a budget. For example, in my school only freshman and sophomores are required to take Physical Education. If more schools and administrators were aware of this information, then Physical Education programs across the country might be able to expand. The article touches on the physical, academic, and social benefits of Physical Education.
Benefits of Physical Education
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Week 1 Reflection
1/19/17
Tonight in EDT352 we discussed all of the things that are required of us during our time in the Spring semester of 2017. First, we went through the syllabus together where Dr. Sponder highlighted the course projects, rules and regulations, late passes, and office ours that are available to us.
We dove into the blog fairly early into the class. I had some significant trouble logging in and creating a blog on this site in the classroom, but I had much more success at home on my PC. We are required to write a blog response on the things that we learned in the class every day, and then we are required to respond to a blog post of someone else before the next class.
After the blog, we jumped into the Moodle. Dr. Sponder has created a moodle page for each of us and he brought us through the settings and showed us how to change the weeks to topics. He explained that this was going to be a "course" that we would be teaching. I have chosen to link it to my teaching as a Physical Education teacher and have each unit be one of those that I teach at Avon High School.
Finally, we went through how to use WebEx to access the meeting room for our online class. I went through this training last night during EDT 512 so this was review for me. I am anxious and excited to get started with this class and program, and I hope to learn many things that I can transfer and use in my classroom.
Tonight in EDT352 we discussed all of the things that are required of us during our time in the Spring semester of 2017. First, we went through the syllabus together where Dr. Sponder highlighted the course projects, rules and regulations, late passes, and office ours that are available to us.
We dove into the blog fairly early into the class. I had some significant trouble logging in and creating a blog on this site in the classroom, but I had much more success at home on my PC. We are required to write a blog response on the things that we learned in the class every day, and then we are required to respond to a blog post of someone else before the next class.
After the blog, we jumped into the Moodle. Dr. Sponder has created a moodle page for each of us and he brought us through the settings and showed us how to change the weeks to topics. He explained that this was going to be a "course" that we would be teaching. I have chosen to link it to my teaching as a Physical Education teacher and have each unit be one of those that I teach at Avon High School.
Finally, we went through how to use WebEx to access the meeting room for our online class. I went through this training last night during EDT 512 so this was review for me. I am anxious and excited to get started with this class and program, and I hope to learn many things that I can transfer and use in my classroom.
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