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PE, Tech and the MYP
Last weekend I was lucky enough to go to Yokohama International School and meet up with Jarrod (aka @mrrobbo) and a room full of keen and inspired PE teachers from all over the region. We met under the hashtag #pegeeksyis and we went to talk about how we can really push forward with integrating technology and mobile apps into our classes. Jarrod presented some fabulous new apps that have come out both apple, android and also web based, and I have summarised most of those in this document. What I came away with was the feeling that it was time to start documenting what we do as an MYP school. …
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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…
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Screen casting
I have been interested in screencasting and using what screen casts offer for a while but this year really decided that I would try and use them for a variety of analysis and flip-class room projects and then have used socrative to try and gather really anonymous feedback from students about whether they are using them. I tried screenr to begin with and have found this program to be mostly reliable and very easy to use. If you create an account it helps as you can then keep all your screencasts together allowing students to return to your stream multiple times. I have also used screencastomatic which has more mouse…