Although it’s School holidays for me, there seems to be no rest for the wicked and as such, I’m busy preparing a project. The project will see my year 7 Physical Education class compete against other schools to determine who is the most physically active. The idea is simple, students from 7 Schools will be utilising a Wiki to record their Physical Activity across the course of 3 weeks. At the end of each week students totals will be added up and averaged in order to create a school total. These school totals will be compared to determine the winning school. The final step is to start exercising and get as active as possible. So on that note I’m off for a run around the lake.
Go Boort Secondary College….
To check out the wiki, head along to http://physical-activity-log.wetpaint.com/
or download the Physical Activity Log hard-copy which the students will fill in during the week before an online end of week update.
Enjoy
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It blows my mind that there are not more Physical Educators who are online and checking out great blogs like this one. I feel like every time I check out your blog or Kyle’s or Jordan’s, I get so much inspiration for things I want to add to my own PE classes.
In Quebec, we evaluate our PE students based off of three competencies:
1. Performs different motor skills in different physical activity settings.
2. Interacts with others in different physical activity settings.
3. Adopts a healthy, active lifestyle.
The first two are pretty straight forward to evaluate, but that third one is tricky, and a lot of teachers have trouble finding ways to evaluate it (“How do we evaluate them outside of school?”) Its to the point where the government is even considering removing that third competency, even though its pretty important given the health issues that society is facing and will continue to face in the future.
I think the application of technology to our teaching could be the key to helping us Quebec teachers evaluate that competency. Between wikis like the one you presented, blogs, twitter, sms, and pretty much everything else you can imagine, there’s a lot out there to help.
I just had a few questions about the wiki. First, did I understand properly that the student fill out a hard copy and then you transfer it onto the wiki? Second, for how many students do you do this (I saw a few names on the wiki itself under your school). I’m just curious because this is something I’d like to try, but I teach 345 students, which would make for a lot of frickin paperwork. Lastly, in the journal document there is a section for steps. What do you do if the students either a) do not have a pedometer or b) are doing an activity that doesn’t require steps (swimming, surfing, cycling, etc).
Thanks again for sharing all of your ideas. I love the fact that every time I think I’ve got it all figured out, somebody goes and ups the bar on me. Its the only way to keep Phys Ed moving!
Thanks for the feedback, hope I can answer your questions. The students each have a hard copy that they fill in throughout the week, at the end of the week of whenever they have internet access either at home or within class they will update their pages online. With my class having their own netbooks with them all the time this wont be a problem. I have a class of 14 students but it could be easily extended by using the same procedure to as many students as you needed. You would simply have the students create their own pages on Wiki. As it is there responsibility there shouldn’t be any need for you to step in. The only time you would need to would be to sort the school averages, however to solve this I would have my students do it or tie it in with the maths class. The steps column is there and is only added to when the students complete an activity with a pedometer. Given that pedometers are super cheap our school has about 30 of them that we use in classes.
Hope this helps, cheers
That’s amazing. Thanks!
Joey – what are the ‘Kyle” and “Jordan” blogs you are mentioning. I find this blog great and would like to see others like it.
Hi Jarrod, as you can see I am also on holidays and home for a change – well for the first week anyway. I am attending ACEC2010 for the second week. The first term was such a crazy one and so short, that I am now catching up on some online reading and networking and hence the visit to your blog. (I hardly have time to read anyone’s anymore)
Great to read your post on the upcoming PE assignment and all the best with it. I also loved reading the lengthy comment from Quebec and assume that they are going to participate in this online excercise.
Great stuff. I’m a fan of this blog and all the ideas it gives to PE teachers. My colleague and I also did a multicultural unit that involves technology that your audience might be interested in since they can use it and even contribute to it. Feel free to use it.
https://multiculturalgames.wikispaces.com/
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[...] I really enjoyed this blog. I think it’s great! The purpose of the blog is to show how you can use technology in the P.E. classroom. There are so many ideas that I would love to incorporate in my P.E. class. The author is Jarrod Robinson and he is a P.E. teacher in Australia. His blogs have been made into a published book which I would love to read. The blogs started in 2008 and he continues to add to the blog. There were two blogs that I thought were awesome. The first blog was about a physical activity log. The idea was to have a competition between schools to see who was the most active. The students would record their activities in their own blog and at the end of the week, their scores were added up. A little competition can go a long way. I think that kids would be motivated to do as much activity as they could to win the competition. A blog is a great way for the kids to record all their activity. Post: http://thepegeek.com/2010/03/31/the-physical-activity-log/ [...]