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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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Giving Feedback on a Presentation
Speech bubble by Alice Bartlett CC BY NC How do you evaluate your Presentations? I have struggled with finding meaning from student presentations especially if they aren’t very good. How do you face public humiliation in the moment of knowing that what you presented was not up to par? And why should this process of giving feedback only be up to the teacher? I have worked with index cards, asking students to confer with peers and just asking for verbal feedback but often this becomes teacher directed and students choose very trivial focus points (eg. “They had good slides”) and it can be hard to bring out meaning to the…
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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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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…