Material Generators

I would like to use the following software tools in my classroom.

1.Rubric generators- i will create a rubric for grading procedures doing certain skills http://rubistar.4teachers.org

2. Graphic document makers- I will create awards for each team that wins the sports tournaments. I can create a MVP award for each sport unit I teach. I have a football, volleyball, basketball, and baseball tourney. This can help me create documents such as champions. http://www.smartdraw.com

3.Worksheet generators- I can create worksheets to allow students to learn the rules of each sport during the unit of that sport. http://www.worksheetworks.com

TOP 10 TECH TOOLS I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT

1. Twitter

2.Social bookmarks

3. Blogster

4. Wiki Spaces

5. Apps for Physical Education

6. Rubistar

7. Bubbl

8. Voki

9. Animoto

10. Glogster

Mobile Apps for Physical Education

Here are some mobile apps for Physical Education

1. Coach's Eye - video students performing a skill. Then play it back in slow-mo, backward, or frame by frame. You can draw and record a playback with verbal comments. A freat app for skill assessment allowing instant feedback.

2.Nutrition Tips- this app gives you hundreds of interesting and useful nutrition tips and nutritional health facts - concisely written for quick and easy review.

3. ifittness HD- An exercise companion app. Provides over 330 exercise images and full text descriptions. Allows tracking of progress for multiple users. Users create customized workouts.

4. Pocket Body- A fully searchable interactive atlas of the human body.

Here are some other apps that can be used in Physical Education- Team Shake, Giant scoreboard, Pocket First Aid & CPR, Stopwatch just to name a few.

Good Digital Citizen

Teachers must understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture, and exibit legal and ethical behavior in thier professional practices. Teachers must advocate, model, and teach safe lrgal, and ethical use digital information and technology. Teachers must respect for copyright, intelluctual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources. Teachers address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies and providing equitable acess to appropriate digital tools and resources. Teachers must promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information. Teachers must develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital-age communication and collaboration tools.

Five types of software

1. Simulation software - Digital Frog uses simulation to replace or supplement hands-on dissections to help teach anatomy http://www.digitalfrog.com

2.Geometer's Sketchpad- Lets students explore geometric principles and proofs using key curriculum press's geometer's sketchpad http://www.keypress.com/x24070.xml

3.Brain Pop- provides practice in using English language words and phrases for ESL students with BrainPop's animated exercises http://www.brainpopesl.com

4.Congress for Kids- let students review information about how the U.S. government works by using the free online Congress for kids site http://congressforkids.net

5.Practice for high-stakes tests- helps students prepare for test such as the ACT, SAT, by using drill-and - practice software, such as Princeton Review http://www.princetonreview.com or online sites, such as the Online Test Page http://www.saab.org/saab_org.cgi

Should students play games

Week 2 Should students play games in school? Can games do something in an instructional situation that no other strategy is able to do? Teachers must try to balance the motivation that instructional games bring to learning against the classroom time they take away from non game strategies. The use of games are frequently criticized from several standpoints: learning versus having fun, confusion of game rules and real life rules, and inefficient learning.