• feedback,  Google,  pegeeks,  screencasting,  Technology in PE

    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…

  • Google,  Teacher Reflection,  Technology in PE

    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.…

  • pegeeks,  Teacher Reflection

    Speedgeeking at VTC2013

      T as in Teaching Tech by Kalexanderson CC BY NC SA Speedgeeking Speedgeeking takes the idea of speed dating and blends it neatly with an Educational/Tech setting. The idea here is that in a large space, 7 presenters share their session 7 times (with a 20 second break between each) for 7 minutes. After each 7 minutes, the audience moves one space over to the new presenter. The audience then comes out with 7 new things that they can either learn more about or follow up on without having to sit through a whole hour on something that they weren’t really interested in. If you repeat this experience twice…

  • collaboration,  Student Reflection,  Teacher Reflection,  Uncategorized

    Google documents

    I have always been a big fan of google docs, but am finding that I am using them more and more to collect data and assessment from students in PE.  I have tried a few different things this year to see how I could improve my student reflections, this is something that I am quite passionate about – I feel that we don’t have the right set up at our school, and that it is too easy to ask students to give you nothing important in a handful (or copious) number of words.  Anyway, I digress – Google docs has been a wonderful way to allow me to collect student…