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Concept based learning – Invasion Games
Lego Spellen by Dirk Houbrechts CC BY NC For those who know me, you will know that I have recently moved from UNIS Hanoi to Yokohama Int’l School. This has been a big change for myself (and my family) and I am working in a new PE department and have taken on the Head of Department role. I am relishing the opportunity to put many of our good practice down in writing so that it is clear to others that our PE dept sees some fundamental truths as important and that this manifests itself in our classes, everyday. Now I am also part of the #PEPLC community, organising a…
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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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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…
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iPod Trial – Update
Contest /B mode by Granada Turnier CC BY Pioneering new ideas or changing to new ways of operating takes time. People look at you a little differently and can often expect rapid shift or change in a short amount of time. If this sounds familiar, keep going! It has taken a while to get really into the trial with my MS HS students. My initial excitement is not waning but it has taken time to work out how we are going to use these devices to really engage student learning and to ensure that they will work. A few notes of the process over the last few weeks: • iDevices…
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Innovative Grant
iPad unpacking by ntr23 licensed by CC NC SA For the last year or so, I have been working with some colleagues to try and get our school and PE department more mobile. I have bought my own iPad3 and have been trialing it in different ways and have loved what it brings to my lessons and my students. I am encouraging my Technology director to come and see this in the field so that he can see first hand what can happen with just one iPad and a PE lesson that is ready for it. This year our school has decided to offer some Innovative Technology Grants – some…
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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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Collaboration, Blogs and Feedback
Dancing Troopers by Kalexanderson licensed by CC BY NC SA My G8 students are beginning their annual Dance unit. This is usually met with not much enthusiasm. I have to admit that my dancing shoes are not as polished or practiced as many other PE teachers, but over the last few years I have had the opportunity to work a little with Sara Quigley, a fabulous Dance teacher, and she and I have worked hard to put together a Dance unit about dissecting dance and then putting a Dance together with all its segments and joining bits and it has been more successful than other attempts…. This year I decided that…
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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. …