Final Reflection

When I first got into this class i'll admit I was a little skeptical of the class. First of the idea of even using technology in a physical education class I did not think it would even really be applicable and second when I saw the list of assignments we were going to have to do I was sure I was going to fail the class. However, as we got going and everything was explained step by step and after hours upon hours of working on the assignments, I started to understand how to do it all and eventually completed them and did them well! I learned that with a little patients and hard work technology is not as bad as it seems. Even within in this semester I have used what I learned with imovie and i used it for an assignment.

I definitely think I will use technology in my classroom now. I will use the website we learned how to make and I will also use imovie to explain skills more in depth and also video my students and use it to show them their movement and how to improve upon it. I may not use technology all of the time because I will be teaching physical education, however, I will use it as much as possible.

www.wepapers.com

This website is a site where you go when you are righting a paper or preparing a presentation. It gives you a list of subjects. You click on the one that you need and then click a subcategory is you need to be more specific. Once you have done this it will give you pages upon pages of papers, power points, and other information that you might need to further write a paper or to further understand something for a test. This website would be extremely useful for students because there are an endless of resources to help them with their school work!

www.skimble.com/

This is a website that always you to track all of your activities that you are doing for the week as well as the month. It allows you to not only schedule this, but also upload them to your twitter or facebook as well as add research or a schedule for each of those activities. This would be very helpful as a physical education teacher that is also a coach. You can put down what lesson plans you are doing when and then add resources or links to videos that you might need to show your class. Also it would be helpful to add in your practice/ game schedule.

tuberadio.fm

Ok this website is fantastic! It is basically youtube but for only music. What you do is type in an artist that you like and they will pull up everything that is possibly on youtube with that song. You can then add it to you playlist and pull as many songs from that artist or another artist and then when you click a song to play from the playlist it not only plays the video from youtube in a screen in the corner, but you can also click lyrics from the right hand corner and the lyrics for that song will pop up. This is the perfect website for all music listeners!

playlistnow.fm

This website is so cool! It combines facebook like status updates and music! It asks you what you are doing right now and then it comes up with a playlist of songs that would go good with that activity! So for instance I put that I am out for a job and it came up with 20 plus songs that I might enjoy while doing this! I will definitely use this website!

sketchfu

This website is actually pretty cool. All it is is a website that you can doodle on. However, instead of saving it as a picture you can publish it like a blogpost. On top of this it has a play button in which it shows your mark as it draws the picture. This could be very useful if you are teaching someone how to draw something and need a step by step instruction of how to do so. I just thought it was cool that you could upload it on the spot instead of having to save it, go to whatever website you want it on, and then upload it, and take all the million steps you need to do it.

web 2.0

Web 2.0 is amazing. I was really amazed when I went to the website and actually got pretty excited when I saw all the cool things that you could do and learn about! are so many links that can be used for everything you would need. Anything that you would want to do from chatting to writing fitness workouts there are tools for that. My students could really benefit from this because there are educational links as well that make learning into games and there are also facebook and twitter links as well.

Oh Stuidocode...

Once I got studiocode all figured out and actually started to watch myself, it was really interesting to see myself teaching to not only little kids, but kindergarten at that! While watching myself teach I realized that no matter how stressful teaching is, at the end of the day the kids learned something and had fun! My class management for this age level was absolutely amazing. I didn't even realize how I had put my discipline/management at their level by saying " I love how.." and it was really awesome to look back on it and see how well it worked and what a good job with it I really did. I also used my when before what very well and the kids actually listened. My signals were given at the beginning and the kids understood them, however, I could have reinforced them a little better or made then put their equipment down in a specific way for better understanding. At this age it really taught me that I must be specific in my signals and when before what commands or else their are to little to infer what I mean or to do it themselves, but rather someone has to tell them exactly what to do from every little deal to how to not teach the ball to make sure t stay on your dot, things that as adults we just know already.
When i came to my instruction I think that I really did a fantastic job coming down to their level and made the cues super easy and understandable. My demos were enthusiastic and not difficult and allowed them to understand. My feedback started out really general at the beginning of my lesson, however, as the lesson went on and i gained more confidence with this age group my feedback became specific and helpful to the students.
From doing studiocode I have learned not only how to critique myself, but I have also gained a little more confidence in myself as a teacher. Next semester when I teach I want to work on being more specific with feedback and not say "alright" as many times.

Its finally done!!!

Ok so after a dreaded couple hours of working, my video it finally done! And im not going to lie, I am super proud of my video because 1) i hate macs and didn't punch the screen like i wanted to several times and 2) i learned how to use imovie and actually made a video that is some what educational haha.

I think that you can make/ use these videos for a lot of different reasons. By using the special effects like slowing it down you can show your students key steps in a skill you wouldn't be able to see other wise. Now that I know how to make a video I think ill use this later in an educational setting with my students.

imovie

So we got to play around with imovie last class and to be honest im not excited at all to use this. I had nothing but trouble when i was trying to play with it. However, maybe when actually knowing how to use it my experience might be much better. But we will see how it goes.

Wesite

So we had to make a website and make it pretending it was our teacher website for the school we were teaching at. This assignment definitely tried my patience, but in the end I am glad that I did it. The one thing that took me forever to get was how to embedded a video into the website. Eventually I found out that all you have to do is add it to the html code of the page you want to add it to. Basically after what seemed like a frustrating couple of hours my website was born and I am actually really proud of it! I would definitaly suggest that everyone make a website because you will learn so much and will be able to use the information later. :)

Website: http://sites.google.com/site/coachbehlen/

copyright

So I am officially annoyed with the copyright laws and what not. I understand why they were there and if I had something that needed to be protected sure Id like it, but I don't so it makes life a little harder when trying not to take something on accident. However, I do love the fact that teachers can basically bypass the laws if its for educational purposes, which makes my life 100 times easier when it comes to teaching. So at least now I know when I'm breaking the law or not, which is nice i suppose. :)

I think that all of the resources presented in that lecture are all really awesome and I wish I had know about them during my GE classes because I would have used most of them for papers and research and what not. My favorite one of all the ones presented would be Zotero. Simply because it would help me write all those worksited pages that I hated doing. I think that I would use these and many more in my classroom because the get the job done and dont waste vaulable class time and my students would benifit form the resources as well.

Reflection #1

So I have officially created my first blog, definitely thought Id never see the day, but it seems kind of cool. The first day of class went pretty well and I really liked that there were computers there for us to use and get started on our projects.

Blogspot seems fairly simply to use and a surprising amount of people actually have one, who would have thought. I have learned how to maneuver through the site for the most part pretty well and everything seems simply enough to handle.