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In this edition of the Technology and Physical Education page,I
would like to discuss, "Why develop a Web Page?"
Send me information, questions
or problems you are having with creating a Web and I will try to
help you find answers.
Why should your program have a Web Page? The most important
reason for a program web page is to inform the public what is happening
in your program. If your are starting a page you will want
to include school information, program goals, assessments, email
addresses, hours, class schedules, and general program overview.
Eventually you will want to include information on skills being
developed in your program. In elementary school the schedule
would be based on classroom teacher and a brief statement
of what is being developed in each grade. In Middle/High school
you could list your starting and ending times for class periods,
and what your are working on. Eventually for all grades you
would want to discuss why these skills are important, but that can
wait till you get the basics posted on the web page.
Second, use a web page to build support for you program.
You want to review key points and then link to key sites such as
the Center for Disease Control report on Nutrition
and Physical Activity or CDC Health report on Physical
Activity and Health so parents and administrators can see why
activity is important. It would be good to give and example
of what is happening in your program to develop these areas.
Third, use the web site to promote activity. You may want
to use the
Walk Our Kids to School day program or
National bone health, or if you have a multi level school,
the Stairways
to Health, or an organization such as Bright Futures,
http://www.brightfutures.org/
or if your state has a site like Washington States Be Active site,
http://www.beactive.org you
can link to that. These can all provide ideas to promote activity.
You could also post activity suggestions or challenges.
Finally, your web site should let people know the importance of
activity. The CDC information listed above will provide facts
on the health benefits of activity. You may also want to relate
activity and brain development using the
Primary Movement site or the
Brain Gym site, so that others understand the importance
of activity on the whole child.
Many people do not know what we do in physical education, and today
children have less time to be active on their own, so physical activity
becomes even more important to the child's development. Having
a program web site can help others understand our program.
This is vital for the future of our profession. Once you get
a web page Cornell
and University
of Maryland have good information on evaluating web site that
you can use to judge your own site.
Sincerely,
Dr. Michael W. Dumin
Technology Section Editor
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More American Children and Teens Are Overweight
gives information on the weight trend in American youth.
Check out the interactive
health statistics to see what is happening in your state.
You can sort data by many factors to identify key health factors
in your state. Use this information to support your program.
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Guidelines for pictures
Using pictures on a web site guidelines. There are many ways to
get pictures into a digital format. Two of the easy ways are
digital cameras
or scanning pictures. Once you have selected a camera can
locate it at active
buyers guide.
Once the picture is in, then you need to decide what format you
want to use to save the picture. There are many formats for
saving picture files, common formats are .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .tif,
.am to name a few. Most often you will see files saved as
.gif or .jpg as these files usually get the most information in
the least space. The jpeg users group has a frequently answered
questions page at geocities
so you can find out more about file formats. Most cameras,
scanners, and photo programs will allow you to save files in many
formats.
Resolution for photos used on the internet do not need a resolution
of greater then 640 x 480. If larger files are used, the pictures
will slow the loading of the page.
When you are using pictures of students at your school, attain
permission to post pictures of the students. School policy
may dictate how children should be displayed on the web. When
selecting pictures you want to make sure the groups are representative
of the school population by gender, race, age and ability levels.
Bonnie Mohnsen in the most recent edition of Online
Technology News reviews digital motion picture cameras.
For information on selecting digital cameras you can use Digicam
Views.
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The fellow who's busy pulling on
the oars hasn't got time to rock the boat.
Oarsmen's proverb
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Michigan's Exemplary Physical Education Curriculum Project (EPEC)
This is a description of Michigan's development of exemplary
programs in Physical Education. You will find sample
lessons, lists of workshops, and overviews of the program.
Look at what Michigan has done and work with your state to implement
exemplary programs.
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Web Editors
Once you decide to develop a web page, the question becomes, how
do I develop a web page. I will briefly discuss three ways
to develop a web page; Word, FrontPage, and Netscape Composer.
Using Hypertext Markup Language, HTML,
was once the main way to develop a web page. You can see examples
of this in your web browser by using the "View",
"Source" on any web page.
When you are using Word or other word processing programs you can
simply save you work as an HTML file and the information will be
ready to post as a web page. This is the universal web language.
You can use all of the work formatting features, such as columns,
tables, inserting pictures, changing backgrounds, fonts and linking
to other documents. This is an easy way to start developing
a web page.
FrontPage is a web editor that can be used to develop web pages.
This is a program that will upgrade links as you change names of
files and can be easy to use. The interface is similar to
the other office products. There are other editors MS Publisher,
and Spotedit are some editors
that are available. These are easy to use what you see is
what you get editors.
Netscape Composer is a web editor that is available in Netscape
and Internet Explorer. For information on using Netscape
composer and ideas for creating your own web page you can use
Webmastercourse.com
as a source to get started. There are other editors, the key
is to get started and develop material as you gain proficiency.
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