Trunk Lift.mp4

YouTube Post with Embedded Video

 I like YouTube and have used it many times, for education and entertainment purposes. I chose this video because it something that relates to physical education teachers. The link below leads to the "Trunk Lift" segment of the FitnessGram videos that shows how to conduct each phase of the FitnessGram. This is something that you can play for the students before you test them. If you need the rest of the videos they can also be found on YouTube. It's a good thing to have because if your school is anything like my school, you can come back from summer break and things are sometimes missing.


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Technorati Post

I did not understand this website. I got results when I did a keyword search for Kinesiology in Blogs, but I didn't get anything out of the other searches. Maybe it was just me not understanding how to use the website. Just seemed like a little too much to figure out for a website. Not something you want your users to feel when they are accessing your site.

Blog About Delicious

I looked through this website. It's an okay idea, but in all honesty, I don't see myself using this website. It's a fancier version of the bookmark toolbar on any browser. The only thing it offers in addition to bookmarking your favorite sites is the ability to see other people's bookmarks or find the most popular tags or bookmarks. Nice idea, cool if you want to keep up with the trends, but not really for me.

Module Three Technology Discussion

Of all the technology resources that we have discussed in this class, I found the podcast and Google Docs resources to be the most interesting and useful. I don't currently use either of these resources in my teaching, but I do think I will use them in the future. Podcasts can be used to guide students and give directions for assignments, and Google Docs can be used to create documents and have students complete individual and group assignments. I tend to think that these may be better suited for high school or college-age students, but it wouldn't hurt to have middle-school kids give it a try.

Web 2.0

The most interesting websites I found from the Web 2.0 awards list were found in the genealogy section. I've always wanted to build my family tree and discover new and interesting things about my family that I may not have known. It's pretty cool that there are safe and secure websites that can actually help you with that process because you can go about it on your own pace, save it and know it's secure, and come back to it when you want to. The genealogy websites were the most interesting to me.

Google Docs

Google Docs is pretty awesome. I had heard about this before but never attempted to use it. I think it's pretty cool that we can edit or create documents from anywhere....even with a phone! I like the fact that we can just save documents to our computer and edit it offline as well. Pretty cool....I could see myself using this resource for this class and any other classes I take, as well as trying to implement this into the classes I teach. I can post an assignment and students can sign on and edit and create documents as a group project. I want to explore this and continue finding ways I can utilize this resource.