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In this issue, the PELINKS4U Editorial Team brings you information gathered from a variety of sources. One of the best, for anyone interested in technological developments, is Ken Daley's "Moving Together" newsletter. Ken is a professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Maharisihi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. For more information about "Moving Together" click here.
We are also featuring an interesting article by Jim Coleman that should interest anyone who teaches or coaches. Jim explains the use of a new video technology that greatly improves the ability to give visual feedback to anyone learning a new skill, or tying to hone a developed skill.
This summer at Central Washington University we began an online MSc. This was a learning experience for teachers and students alike. We would once again invite those of you who have experience taking online courses to share your insights with other readers.
We know it is a different experience, and if you've been a participant you probably have tips for those considering enrolling in some type of online instruction. Please post your comments to the "Technology" section on our PE Forum. Click here for a direct link.
Once again we appreciate your support and input. This is your site and the quality of the information depends on you!
Sincerely,
PELINKS4U Staff
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| How to Transfer Large Files |
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If you haven't yet wondered how to move a file that is too big for a disk from one computer to another, you soon will. Zip disks offer one solution, but not if one of the computers doesn't have a zip drive.
You may also sometime need to send a large file to someone else. Attachments work okay, but not for files multi-megabites in size. Solution? "Whalemail."
Whalemail is a site that makes it possible to email files up to 75 MB in size to anyone. You simply send the file via the whalemail site - Free, of course. You have to get a username and password, naturally, but it's quick and easy.
Thanks to Will Hopkins from Sportscience for sharing this information.
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| getCITED: Academic Data Proposed |
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Imagine a single academic database with which we could search for all of the available research on a given topic. Not just journal articles, not just books, but "publications" of all types, including individual chapters in edited volumes, papers from conferences and proceedings, working papers and reports, even conference presentations.
Now imagine being able to click on a particularly interesting publication and having its bibliography available for inspection, with each item in that bibliography providing the possibility of clicking on it and viewing its details.
Or alternatively, imagine being able to click on the authors' names and bringing up their CVs in its entirety. And, to find out who their colleagues are, being able to simply click on the faculty or department name to get a list of all its members.
Finally, imagine that the contents of this database are controlled by us, rather than corporations, and you'll have some idea of what is possible with getCITED.
If this vision is to come into being, it will require the cooperation of the entire academic community. It will require that each of us take the time to enter our publications and presentations into the database, and then to link these publications to the publications from which they benefited. If we do this, we can create an incredibly powerful research tool, one that will be accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.
So, if you'd like to help build the getCITED database, read the information provided below and then take a couple of minutes to join getCITED. After you do this, you can enter and link your publications anytime you have a few minutes to spare.
For more information, contact Dr. Michael K. Mauws, Faculty of Physical Education & Recreation University of Alberta, Edmonton, michael@mauws.net.
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| Becoming a Successful Writer |
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Want to write? Well, our first suggestion is to pen something about your current program and send it to PELINKS4U. We'd be happy to help you share your ideas with your colleagues. The problem is that most people don't get beyond the thought! Writing is like any other skill and just takes practice. It's too bad that some great ideas don't get shared because they are never written down.
Author, Wayne Westcott provides more motivational advice in an interview on HK Today. When asked for his one main piece of advice he said, "Spend half as much time thinking about what to write as you usually do, and spend twice as much time writing."
In other words, don't think your material to death. If you wait for the perfect sentence or the perfect paragraph to come, you'll never get anywhere. As soon as something occurs to you, write it down, and leave it alone. The only thing thatıs important at this stage is to get that content down, no matter how rough or badly organized it is. Polished writing comes later.
To read the full interview click here.
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Fitness Jumpsite
This site has a Fitness Library, Activity Calculator, and other fitness utilities. It's a very useful site for students wishing to do research regarding fitness, or for calculating expenditure values for exercise and foods.
Learning outcomes: Evaluate beliefs about fitness, and undertake activities to develop personal fitness. Evaluate the fitness demands of activities to plan, and implement, fitness programs for improving performance.
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How to Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs
Puzzled by the choice of Search Engines that can be used to locate information on the web? We often are.
Well, here's a great informational page created by folk at the Nueva Library that will help you choose a search method based on the type of information you are seeking.
There is also a form called a "NoodleQuest" that can be used to receive specific suggestions for search strategies. You might want to share this with your school technology director and your students. Click here for the link.
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Free Long Distance Phone Calling
Every few weeks the phone rings at the PELINKS4U office and Elementary PE Section Editor, Marina Bonello updates us on physical education events in Europe. Marina, is an elementary PE specialist living in Malta (near Italy). If you've read her sections you'll also know that she is as knowledgeable about US elementary PE as anyone.
Calling the USA, using the regular phone system and chatting for more than a few minutes, is rather expensive - but not for Marina! She uses "Dialpad," one of the many free computer-based long distance dialing programs. Sometimes it seems as if she is speaking from a freighter in the midst of an Atlantic storm, but mostly the connection is pretty good.
If you make lots of long distance calls, you might want to think about trying Dialpad. The good news is that it is now available for both PC and Mac users. Give it a try!
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Effective Teaching Breakthrough - Immediate Feedback Video
Author, Jim Coleman, believes that "Immediate Feedback Video" now offers a fantastic new opportunity for improving skill instruction.
We all know that video feedback can be very helpful with beginning learners and experts. The problem with video however is that the whole process is so slow. Recording, rewinding, then viewing takes too much time. And the thought of doing it for a whole class or team is mind boggling.
Solution? The Tivo Personal Video Recorder. The key to the value of a "Tivo" is that it allows you to record one learner, watch the playback, while simultaneously recording a second learner. This way you can record an entire class or team, and give feedback without any need to swap tapes or rewind.
Read more about the exciting instructional possibilities this equipment offers in Jim's article.
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If you have ideas, comments, letters to share, or questions about particular topics, please email one of the following Technology PE Section Editors:
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