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WELCOME!!
I would like to thank you for visiting the
Technology and Physical Education section. We are partially dependent
on YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS to make this a successful site.
Please send me an email
with your thoughts and ideas, and become a part of this exciting
online magazine / newsletter. Please contact me:
My e-mail address is mitchell@mail.ucf.edu
Dr. Debby Mitchell
Technology Section Editor
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In light of technology
"Expect that which you dread - the inevitability of the unwanted!"
~ Peter Willauer
~ from Golden Nuggets, Readings for Experiential
Education by Jim Schoel and Mike Stratton
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| Web Sites by Physical Education
Teachers |
| Developing a Physical Education Web Site is great public relations
for our profession. If you have developed a web site, please
share it with me. Thanks, Debby
Mitchell |
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Fitness Technology is an Australian company dedicated to the design,
construction and manufacture of state-of-the-art hardware and software
for athletic training, rehabilitation and fitness.
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Expansive list of exercise
equipment. Complete with summary's of their functions. As well as
images of people using the equipment. |
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Questions to Ask, or
Thoughts to Share?
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| Elementary
Physical Education |
| Their unique approach fosters the sequential progression of motor,
cognitive, emotional and social development. Children mature at
various rates, therefore, their programs are flexible and designed
to accommodate individual differences |
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Features planned programs
and instructional strategies used to provide success-oriented experiences. |
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This sit Teachers that
childeren can bechallenged with stimulating, open-ended tasks to
gain confidence in attempting new learning experiences through educational
games, sports, dance, gymnastics and fitness activities |
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Features amazing curriculum
idea and planning resources |
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This site also contains a very useful
link to the Hillsborough County Physical Education website. |
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| Gary Wojton
- National Board Certification |
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Gary
Wojton, of Des Plaines, Illinois, was one of 6,500 teachers
in the United States to achieve National Board Certification.
Mr.Wojton is the Physical Education Teacher at the Peterson Elementary
School located on the Northwest side of Chicago.
National
Board Certification is a symbol of teaching excellence. A voluntary
process established by NBPTS, it is achieved through a rigorous
performance-based assessment that takes nearly a year to complete.
Through the assessment process, teachers document their subject
matter knowledge, provide evidence that they know how to teach their
subjects to students most effectively, and demonstrate their ability
to manage and measure student learning.
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Fun-Attic is a site that
features Game ideas. It is a company who creates and sells games
for children audiences. Majority of the games they carry have a
focus on physical education and try to get children up and moving/active.
Game Central
Station is a resource for Physical Educators, recreation
specialists, parents or anyone working with children with over 350
games.
Games Kids Play has
rules for playground games, verses for jump-rope rhymes, and much
more.
Playground
Games describes games, mostly from England, Ireland and Scotland.
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| Features a diverse yet a very intensive array of information. This
site is interesting in the act it tries to cover almost every aspect
of physical education. With it's link section the amount of information
this site boast is phenomenal. |
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This site has a section which
focus is PE quizzes. |
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This site also has a section
on sports to help spark your mind and generate new ideas. |
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There is a section on Injury
clinic. |
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They have a link to a wonderful Fitness
testing site. |
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questions about particular topics, please email one of the following
Technology Section Editors: |
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I now create my health presentations {what used to be lecture}
in PowerPoint. I jazz them up with graphics, which I scan
from the student text, and show the presentations on a 32" television
monitor in our classroom {connected to my DELL laptop}. Hint...the
smallest font pitch to use is 32 pt. If you use anything
smaller, the students have trouble reading it from the back of
the room. I also create a note packet {copies of the
slides with blanks} for each student to complete during the presentation.
Pat Schriver
The book that helped her along the way is Glencoe Health:
A Guide to Wellness, 6th edition
See some of Pat Schriver's PowerPoint Slides:
 
PELinks4U would like to find our how your are integrating technology
into your teaching!
Please contact me:
Debby Mitchell
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| Highlands Elementary Physical Education |
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Highland
Elementary has a website that's focus is elementary school children
and their health and exercise.
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Features a vast section
of Exercise related links. |
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Features a well organized
Nutrition links section. |
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Features a Section on
"Healthy Habits" with quotes from the elementary school children. |
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Plus more . . . |
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Features templates --
such as most award certificates, student progress updates, and seating
charts -- all are available in word processing documents |
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Also features non-modifiable
template such are in pdf format and can only be altered after printing. |
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Modifiable templates, form, letters,
mathematics, tests, seating charts, and more...are
all available |
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They also have small
sized templates for those short forms and projects. |
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This site also contains
many links to other sites with template related information. |
| SMILE
Lab, or Sensory Motor Intensive Learning Environment was created
by veteran educator Ralph Barrett. His Lab has generated amazing
results for students. By utilizing sensory motor skills, children
actually enhance their brain power - "hardwiring" their neurological
pathways. Students' test scores are higher, athletic abilities are
enhanced and some miraculous results have been shown with ESE students
having Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and Autism. |
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This site discusses what
research that has been conducted and what types of results were found. |
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Information can also
be found about how to start a lab of your own. |
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