So confused!

This week was terrible! I am so sad that you are sick Doc Waters! I feel completely lost!!!!! I watched the video and I understand that we are not supposed to bully people on the internet and steal music. But other than that... I am feeling a little lost over here. The sub didn't really make it very clear what exactly we were supposed to be learning and so now I am feeling a little hung out. I guess I can take the good research that we collected as a class and then use it to find our music. Is that what we were supposed to get out of this lesson? I am usually super excited and majorly overwhelmed when I leave class on wednesdays, but to be honest, when I left class today I felt sad and confused. I hope you get feeling better quick and we can continue learning!

Digital Stories take one...

This week was very interesting. Learning about digital stories is awesome!!! I never realized how emotional they could be. How big of an impact they can have on the students, how big of an impact they had on me! I am very excited to start putting this together. Although I am a little weary of my topic, I hope Spencer has some good ideas.. Trying to put this into physical education is challenging. But I know we will pull it together and rock it out! I am toying with the ideas of childhood obesity, or maybe injuries in sports, or nutrition. I am not sure yet, but I will keep brainstorming. I am excited to become competent in learning this tool, so that I can use it to create many exciting videos to use in my classroom to enrich my curriculum and keep my students super engaged! This week I am focusing on the story board. I am very interested in starting my story board, and brainstorming. It's going to be fun can't wait!! more to come next week!

Vidcast Reflection

Stretching

As of the present day there is no core curriculum for physical education in the state of Utah. Therefore we have a lot of freedom in what we get to teach. Which is great for us! The reason behind our choice of vidcast weighs greatly on the fact that most students and people in general lack the knowledge of proper stretching techniques. Our collaborating teacher is very open and gives us a lot of freedom to create what we want! This vidcast will benefit our students greatly because it is fun, exciting and engaging. It is also informational and will provide the students with lifelong knowledge to help them reach and maintain their healthy lifestyle. Our vidcast lives up to the NETS and INTASC standards by inspiring creativity both in watching our vidcast and by thinking of ways they could create something of their own. It also helps students stayed engaged and promotes student learning in a positive classroom environment. It also can help the teacher quickly assess the students by watching them attempt to follow along with video and see if they are understanding the concepts. The only potential drawbacks that I could see by using this vidcast in my future classroom might be if my students are not at a skill level appropriate to do the stretches or if I am in an environment where I won’t have access to video or internet. For example if we are outside. This is only the first episode in a large series of informational vidcasts to come! I want to create these for students in order to keep them engaged, encourage learning and creativity, and to help them reach their physical fitness and health related goals throughout their lifespan.

Intro to vidcast

This weeks blog is going to be pretty short.. but not any less exciting! Learning about vidcasts and all the different tools that we can use to create vidcasts is so exciting. I can't wait to become proficient in all these different programs and implement them in my classroom. I know I say this alot but having all this technology at my finger tips is so amazing.. and the best part about it is that it is all free!!! I love it. I can't wait til tomorrow to start putting our vidcast together and I am so excited to see the end result. I really enjoyed the video posted this week about why we should let students blog. I agree that it can open up the world of learning to a level way beyond the walls of a classroom. Another class down another fabulous thing learned. I can't wait for class!