iPod Trial
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G7 iPad trial – #physed contributions
G7 students have been trialling the use of iPad mini’s for the last few weeks of school. This has enabled them (and the PE teachers) to use 1:1 mobile technology as a class in our PE classes – a big step forward! We have started off with Coach’s Eye. Coach’s Eye is not just for sports use – it can be used anywhere you would like to film something and allow for feedback, analysis, comparison or screencasting to assist in learning. We decided to use this tool in our assessment of G7 student’s throwing technique in our striking and fielding unit. We have spent considerable time looking at the important aspects…
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All teched up, where to from here?
Ultra-modern Cabot Place by UGG boy UGG girl licensed CC BY Last post on our iPod Trial at UNIS… The school year is almost done and so finishes our iPod trial in the MSHS. Before I go into the end products, it is important for me to thank Ed Gilbreath and the Tech team (especially Mr Long) for the opportunity to trial mobile tech in PE and for my own professional growth and learning during this process. I would also like to thank Clint Hamada for his never-ending patience and wise sage-like advice at times of despair and for sharing our home computer with 4 iPods and related issues. And…
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PD – staff using iPods
Unboxing iPod Touch by FHKE CC BY SA Recently I was one of 20 presenters at our annual school Speedgeeking session. I decided to focus on iPods/iDevices and to introduce my audience to Coach’s Eye/Dropbox and Reflector. I had 7 minutes to discuss these with my audience (between 4-7 people) and repeated the experience 7 times to new people. I started off with the usual speel, who I am; what I teach; what I am trialing and trying to do in PE and then launched into the apps and iDevices. But after the second round of 7 minutes, I had to take a step back. I was finding that in…
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SprintTimer – T&F Day Review
Bad Position by Kennymatic licensed by CC BY I am following on from my last post reviewing some apps that I trialled on my recent Track and Field days. You can read back about the ideas here and the first app here. SprintTimer SprintTimer is a very nifty app created by Sten Kaiser. It allows you to take photo finish images at the end of your sprint or relay events with high quality images to share with your school community. I should have had more of a play of this app prior to using it on the day. It isn’t complicated, but there are multiple settings you can choose from…
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Burst Mode – T&F Day review
My school recently held two Track and Field days – one for Middle and one for High school. As a tech type person I decided to trial some apps for sharing technique but more to capture some flavor of the events over the day. I found that it would have been more useful to have a clear plan of use for the day, which apps and how to really use them, as some settings were more effective for different events. I used my iPod 5 and I didn’t have internet access on our field, so no real time sharing happened. But I did share images with some students on the…
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Using Mobile Device Management
Hello, this is a shark by licensed by Johnson Cameraface CC BY NC SA How does your school monitor and manage its mobile devices? Do you have school/class based mobile devices? Do you BYOD (Bring your own device)? Or a combination of both? How do you ensure that your work based devices are monitored and the way they are used studied? Do they get used for the reason that people wanted them? Which teachers use them? Which apps are mostly used? Where do your devices travel around your school? Do you have access to Volume Purchase Program (VPP) through Apple? What does your school or PE Department or IT…
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Managing the More Mobile Workplace
071of365[NTR23] by licensed by ntr23 CC BY SA NC As I have been working on my PE iPod trial I have had to do some research on different issues that I hadn’t really thought about when I began working with mobile technology. I knew that there would be issues, we are in Vietnam and running a server and network that is limited for many reasons, but I hadn’t really thought deeply about how this would impact us as a school and what might need to be used/built/employed for greater functionality. I am going to share some of my research over a number of blog posts, but what I really…
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iPod Trial – Update
Contest /B mode by Granada Turnier CC BY Pioneering new ideas or changing to new ways of operating takes time. People look at you a little differently and can often expect rapid shift or change in a short amount of time. If this sounds familiar, keep going! It has taken a while to get really into the trial with my MS HS students. My initial excitement is not waning but it has taken time to work out how we are going to use these devices to really engage student learning and to ensure that they will work. A few notes of the process over the last few weeks: • iDevices…