Course 1

Course 1 Final Project.

March 18, 2012
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Course 1 Final Project.

Using Video Feedback to Enhance Throwing Technique Preface: My long term goal is to enhance students’ learning and performance in Physical Education. I have identified improvement of sports specific skills, in this lesson Throwing, as the area of focus and hope to use technology to help achieve my goal. Having researched the use of Video…

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Is Twitter the Driving Force Behind Educational Change?

March 18, 2012
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Last night I logged into my Twitter Account and entered my first tweet!! “Hi #pegeeks #peapps Any recommendations for good PE teaching Android apps out there?” I couldn’t believe the number of Twitterers (is that a word) who have tweeted about PE and technology. It’s amazing. Over the past few days I have been following…

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Technojocks.

March 18, 2012
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In the recent weeks, I have been doing a number of readings regarding Educational Technology (EdTech) and the best practices for integrating technology into the classroom. There have been a number of debates for and against whether technology should be considered as a tool in class, or if it should be thought of as a…

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Messing Around…..too much!

March 17, 2012
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Messing Around…..too much!

I love “messing around”. I could “mess around” all day…..actually I do. I was quite fascinated when reading Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project and realised that a name has been given to what I do!! While trying to get all my readings for Course 1 done…

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The Power of Social Networking: Kony 2012

March 11, 2012
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KONY 2012. Have you heard of it? Of course you have? Along with over 70,624,061 other people who have also viewed it on Youtube.(I checked the site an hour later, and the figure had risen to 70,942,020, and that’s 15million more than when I checked it 48 hours ago) Here is an example of the…

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World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others: How to teach when learning is everywhere.

February 29, 2012
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What I loved about reading the article, World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others was that I was anticipating every idea that Will Richardson was about to bring up. I am a strong believer in the “Collaboration Age” and agree that there is a wealth of knowledge floating around out there surely needs to be tapped…

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Hello COETAIL

February 10, 2012
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I’m slowly working my way around the COETAIL site and am enjoying watching the videos and reading people’s comments. I’m looking forward to learning more and more as the weeks go on.

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