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After 11 Tools Reflection

Reflection
My favorite tool was the one with the iTouch. That is the one I felt the most comfortable with. I plan on using it with the children in stations where they can have hands on experience with Apps and health and fitness related topics.
This will give us the opportunity to utilize more technology in the gym. In the past it has been difficult to use technology but now we have so many more tools.
I learned that it is not as difficult as I thought when I first started and I enjoyed working with others and sharing ideas.

Tool # 11

Digital Citizenship
Three important issues in digital citizenship are: etiquette, safety and don't believe everything you read.
I would teach the students these topics by example and by teaching one basic topic at a time. I would also teach each topic more than once so that it is not overwhelming to them.

Tool # 10

Some of the free educational apps I have worked with are: iTranslate, Convert Units and Currency Conversion. These were very helpful to me on a recent vacation to Europe and will be very beneficial to students while studying metric conversions and foreign languages.
I have an iTouch and I love it and use daily. I couldn't be without it now. Since I can not own an iPhone (until Verizon gets with the program) this is the next best thing.
In my class students can use the iPad or iTouch in stations to work on Health lessons.
Now let's give those thumbs a workout!!

Tool # 9

A screencast would be very helpful in teaching students new skills. I think it might be useful in Health Fitness because we could make a screencast about various health topics and they could be shown in the gym or in the classrooms. Since we teach all the students in the school, this would be a good way to get information to all the students without having to repeat the same thing a million times. This would also be helpful to students that might have been absent. They could use a screencast that the teacher created to access any missed information.

There are so many different ways to use Skype in the classroom. Some ideas that really sounded good to me were: Students can work on a project with students in another city, your class can speak to an author or museum curator in another city or state instead of just reading about their information, students in a foreign language class can speak with native speakers of that language in another county and so much more!

I have never used Skype but I am looking forward to it.

Tool # 8

http://www.hulu.com/kids-fit-squad

http://www.hulu.com/watch/154836/yoga-zone-conditioning-and-stress-release

These 2 videos will be useful to the kids because they can do these on their own.

The two videos I chose were from Hulu. One is Kids Fit Squad and the other is a yoga video.

Tool #7

Video Story
I created a video story of my nephew Brian and his band The Brian Burke Band. I am having some problems uploading it to my blog but I am still trying!! Hopefully I can get it from my desktop to my blog soon so you can all see me talented nephew.
Keep your fingers crossed.