• iPod Trial,  Teacher Reflection,  Technology in PE

    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…

  • iPod Trial,  pegeeks,  Teacher Reflection,  Technology in PE

    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…