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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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PE app for Badminton Class
A hard days work by Kalexanderson CC BY NC SA Everyone tells me that I spend too much time on work. I don’t feel the same way. Robert Appino got me thinking more about Game based learning and Jarrod Robinson and Liz Halina inspired me this week with the work they are doing on App building and on recent data that suggests the Video Analysis of student work is enriching technique and confidence. So I decided that I would work a little later and longer on a Badminton App for my students (and their parents) to use during our next unit. The unit itself centers around Mastering a Skill…
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Google Drive – living the dream!
Falling by coleydude CC BY NC SA I have been really reading closely some blog posts (Chris Lehmann has a good one out) and tweets this last month about ‘letting go’ or ‘doing less’ and I have been thinking about what this means to me and my teaching. The basic principle is that you have set your students up with the tools for working without you constantly guiding them. I have been working really hard in my PE lessons on peer coaching and feedback – trying to ensure that students share with each other using a variety of feedback methods (blog posts, continual formative feedback opportunities and times to reflect…
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How much is too much?
One Click or two by Kaptain Kobold licensed by CC BY NC SA How much work in a unit is too much? I would be the first to say it is likely that I am guilty of trying to do too much in a PE unit, but is it too much? How do you gauge what is acceptable and what is too much work for you as the teacher (or teachers if you teach across the grade level) and the students? I would like to try and quantify this if possible. Here are my ideas so far: It is too much work when – you can’t easily get the…
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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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Formative Assessment
Els retocs finals// The Final Touch by licensed by Oryctes CC BY SA NC Formative assessment is forefront on my mind this year. Last year I was continually ebbing through a large amount of summative assessment which really made my life difficult and stressful and I think culminated in some of the hip and back issues that I had over the course of sitting and watching/grading over 500 student assessment films throughout the year (as well as all the paper work and the uploading of these grades to the ISIS program our school uses). I have looked at how I am going to do that over this year and how…
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Ipads at school
So this year I have managed to get my hands on a shiney new ipad3 and I have decided to start doing my own trials at work. I work at a school that uses tablets and one-to-one technology with our students and although I am a very big fan of this, it is cumbersome in PE and can limit what you can do out in the field. I have decided to try and work through the year with some set goals in mind. I am aiming to try and use Google docs so that I can do formative assessment and note taking during my lessons and then be able…
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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…