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Google Innovator – Catalysts for communities
Catalysts for Communities was born from conversations about the Mentoring program at ISB. Our Mentoring or Life Skills or Homeroom or Tutor program that is run across our Middle School is in the process of a re-write as we pull different standards from subject areas and consider What do we need to include in the program? and What is the purpose of the program? Perhaps the purpose, vision , nd mission is aligned more to our school ISB vision and mission but as we do not follow one set of standards (each department went on a focused journey to find the standards that are the best fit for us…
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Google Innovator – Experiencing and Remembering Selves
When I was younger, I had to hide the sweets and lollies that I love in my bedroom away from my brother and my mother. I spent my pocket money on different delicious candies and I knew my brother wanted them and my mother didn’t want me over-indulging in sweets. As I am now an adult and mother, I am trying to limit the sugar in my household. I am fully aware that it is not good for me or my children and I can see history repeating as I find candy wrappers in my daughter’s room. Daniel Kahneman in his book ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’, discussed the idea of…
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APPEC16 – links and resources
This weekend I am grateful to APPEC for allowing me to come and present at their annual conference hosted by Hong Kong International School (HKIS). There are hundreds of PE teachers, Outdoor Educationalists, some researchers, students and vendors – all here to unite about growing our professional practice around Student learning. You can get on social media and look for #APPEC16 to join in the fun. When I present, I am conscious that I want to engage people in the thinking and the physical experiences as well as have time to ask questions and clarify ideas and to take things away for discussion or implementation when they get back to…
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Teaching Games for Understanding & Visible Thinking Routines for #ACHPER15
Sports by David Pickett CC BY NC SA This post shares the notes and links to resources from my ACHPER Teaching Games for Understanding and Visible Thinking Routines Workshop. I presented this in Adelaide on Tuesday 14th April, 2015. I created this Google Presentation but didn’t present it, but rather went through all of the notes listed here, but it is intended as my workshop plan and to give others a chance to consolidate the activities that we completed. Other resources can be found here: TGfU – Invasion Games Progression Questions Coaching Question Starters Routine Learning Questions – resources from Mark Church and Pam Harper Invasion Claim/Support/Question Routine example #1…
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TeachTechPlay Episode 4.5
Who are your mentors? heroes? who inspires you in your field? I have about 10 #physed people who are on my go-to list and whom I follow avidly on Twitter and regularly email or text with in many different forums. I was delighted to be invited to take part on a special PE episode of Teach Tech Play hosted by Michael Ha and Eleni Kyritsis. The premise of this Google Hangout is to share a tool you use in your classes in 4 minutes. Each presenter shares their tech go-to tool and then there are a few questions to clarify or extend your knowledge and then after each presenter has…
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Quickcast and autoCrat – two important #pegeek tools
Invasive Plant Work by Zen Sutherland CC BY NC SA This is not my first sharing on the use of Screencasts and autoCrat as part of the #Physed teacher’s toolkit. But I thought I would share some screencasts of my latest autoCrat journey as I have been asked about it a lot recently on Twitter. I now use Quickcast as my screencast tool, it is easy to install (on my Mac) and is very quick to set up and go. I can only cast for 3 minutes and this is perfect as I can say what I need to usually in that time frame. The screencasts are saved online so…
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Using autoCrat to create Summative Grades for students – magic!
I love that PE and Technology are coming together, there is such a great host of Google scripts that can enhance our feedback to students and parents. I believe that if I am assessing and recording it (iPad using Google Drive) then the students really should get to see it and understand what I am doing and so how they are doing/did. Inspired by @PENathan‘s Nathan Horne and his sharing of how to use Google Spreadsheets and Conditional Formatting, I have decided to run a little tutorial on how I use @astillman’s autoCrat script to mass produce individual student summative assessment pdf’s for sharing with students and parents, from Google Spreadsheets.…
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Sportfolios – student driven using Google Drive apps.
Sportfolios are a PE version of a student portfolio. They enable students to take their work with them from PE which has always been somewhat tricky. Andy Vasily shares that they are about sharing work: student, peer, teacher and after seeing some in action, I have decided to invest some research into Sportfolios to see what they are about. I have some initial reservations and also some positive ideas in ways which they could and may work with my students this year. I am concerned about how much we can load on our students. I was in Australia for the July break and had a chance to go through my…