Summary
Dylan Blain writes about Research Informed Practice in PE. What I take from this article is that Dylan forst of all is a very good teacher. He takes the time to stay up to date with the latest ways to teach and instruct his students the correct way by using the latest research out there. He gives us some very good research sites to look at and learn from like "Physical Education Matters". Basically what I take from this is, there are always better ways to do things, we have so much technology at our finger tips these days that it would be a shame to think your way is the best way and not research better ways to teach. As teachers we can never stop learning, we owe that to our students.
Comment
My name is Logan Kirkland and I attend the University of South Alabama where I am studying to be a PE Teacher and baseball coach. This article has really made me think of ways that I can continue learning after I start working. We owe it to our students to offer them the most up to date and safe ways to exercise and learn. I congratulate you on going the extra mile for your students. logan Kirkland.
Summary
In this article Dylan writes about a trial that he is doing entitled "Sportplan". This really peeked my interest because I plan to coach baseball after graduating. Sportplan is a coaching platform that allows you to use your Ipad to create coaching and teaching sessions for your players or students. It allows you to layout a complete session with a great deal of detail and it looks very professional. I will definately use this or a form of this in my coaching career.
Comment
My name is Logan Kirkland and I attend the University of South Alabama where I am studying to be a PE Teacher and baseball coach. This article really peeked my interest and I plan to use this when I start coaching. I believe this is essential today for our players and will be very well received. Thanks for the article, Logan Kirkland.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
C4T #3
Summary #1
Brenda Jones writes about Looking Forward/Looking Back. She talks about "No Spoons", basically this was a project to help her students create and learn on their own, she did not want to spoon feed them information. She was looking for her students to think, source their own information and answer some of their own questions. She encountered some problems as the students did not think this was the conventional way to teach, they were use to being "Spoon Fed". Her conclusion was that she feels that she should have eased into the new method a little slower to ease the fears that the students felt. She plans to use this approach in the future, but plans to tweek it a little to let the students get use to it before diving in.
Commet
I find the traditional teaching much easier to learn and make a better grade in class. But, I tend to learn more and reatin more knowledge when I am tasked to learn on my own and figure things out for myself. I personally think the approach that you used "No Spoons" to be very valuable and I will plan to use a version of this when I start my teaching career. Thanks for the article, Logan Kirkland.
Summary #2
Brenda Jones writes about Road Safety and using technolgy to have her students define risks, after the define the risks they make a movie using Tropfest. When she explained this to her students she could see that they had some major concerns, this was something new. The students formed groups and started putting what they believed posed risk down on paper in the form of questions. Why do people speed? Why are young people in so many crashes? Etc. They discussed the questions and came up with a word to describe each question Cars, Sad, Risk, Shock, Stupid, Angry, Tired. The students were then tasked with making the movie based on the questions and words. The class totally bought into this concept and had fun with it.
Comment
This article was very interesting to me. It shows how you can use technology to get your students thinking and learning. They actually learned a lot more than just road safety, they also learned valuable lessons on how to use different technologies to get their work done. I wish I had learned this before moving on to college. Great article and very well thought out! Logan Kirkland.
Brenda Jones writes about Looking Forward/Looking Back. She talks about "No Spoons", basically this was a project to help her students create and learn on their own, she did not want to spoon feed them information. She was looking for her students to think, source their own information and answer some of their own questions. She encountered some problems as the students did not think this was the conventional way to teach, they were use to being "Spoon Fed". Her conclusion was that she feels that she should have eased into the new method a little slower to ease the fears that the students felt. She plans to use this approach in the future, but plans to tweek it a little to let the students get use to it before diving in.
Commet
I find the traditional teaching much easier to learn and make a better grade in class. But, I tend to learn more and reatin more knowledge when I am tasked to learn on my own and figure things out for myself. I personally think the approach that you used "No Spoons" to be very valuable and I will plan to use a version of this when I start my teaching career. Thanks for the article, Logan Kirkland.
Summary #2
Brenda Jones writes about Road Safety and using technolgy to have her students define risks, after the define the risks they make a movie using Tropfest. When she explained this to her students she could see that they had some major concerns, this was something new. The students formed groups and started putting what they believed posed risk down on paper in the form of questions. Why do people speed? Why are young people in so many crashes? Etc. They discussed the questions and came up with a word to describe each question Cars, Sad, Risk, Shock, Stupid, Angry, Tired. The students were then tasked with making the movie based on the questions and words. The class totally bought into this concept and had fun with it.
Comment
This article was very interesting to me. It shows how you can use technology to get your students thinking and learning. They actually learned a lot more than just road safety, they also learned valuable lessons on how to use different technologies to get their work done. I wish I had learned this before moving on to college. Great article and very well thought out! Logan Kirkland.
C4T #2
Summary #1
Mrs. Hamada is talking about a new academic year at a new school, she is determined to not pass judgement on the school or the students until she has had time to understand each fully. She is planning to start small and learn the students names and their abilities first. She plans to be open minded and make no assumptions, she plans to stay positive for every lesson, she plans to use technology for learning and not just for fun. She plans to use Google, Coaches Eye/Analysis/Sharing/Dropbox. She also plans to pick the brain of other teachers and broaden her learning.
Comment
I am a student at the University of South Alabama in a course called EDM310. I am planning to be a teacher and baseball coach upon graduating. This story really inspires me to keep an open mind and not judge students, facilities or other teachers until I have had a chance to get to know them and the things that need to be able to learn. It also inspires me to use technology to spice up my class and the students imagination. I really believe that technology keeps the students interested and in learning mode. Thank you for this article, it was very interesting, Logan Kirkland.
Summary #2
The blogger talks about emails taking over all of your time. She mentions that she was spending a lot of time answering emails and going thru emails that did not really relate to her, but it took time to determine if she needed to answer or not. She actually gave a couple of email checklists that can be very helpful in determining if you should answer or send the email. She suggest that you print this out and hang it up at your desk. I can see that this would be very helpful in my future.
Comment
I found this blog to be helpful to me. I plan to print out the email checklist and put them in a place to be able to refer to when needed. My ultimate goal as a teacher and coach is to give my students as much of my time as possible. This will help me to do that. Thanks, Logan Kirkland.
Mrs. Hamada is talking about a new academic year at a new school, she is determined to not pass judgement on the school or the students until she has had time to understand each fully. She is planning to start small and learn the students names and their abilities first. She plans to be open minded and make no assumptions, she plans to stay positive for every lesson, she plans to use technology for learning and not just for fun. She plans to use Google, Coaches Eye/Analysis/Sharing/Dropbox. She also plans to pick the brain of other teachers and broaden her learning.
Comment
I am a student at the University of South Alabama in a course called EDM310. I am planning to be a teacher and baseball coach upon graduating. This story really inspires me to keep an open mind and not judge students, facilities or other teachers until I have had a chance to get to know them and the things that need to be able to learn. It also inspires me to use technology to spice up my class and the students imagination. I really believe that technology keeps the students interested and in learning mode. Thank you for this article, it was very interesting, Logan Kirkland.
Summary #2
The blogger talks about emails taking over all of your time. She mentions that she was spending a lot of time answering emails and going thru emails that did not really relate to her, but it took time to determine if she needed to answer or not. She actually gave a couple of email checklists that can be very helpful in determining if you should answer or send the email. She suggest that you print this out and hang it up at your desk. I can see that this would be very helpful in my future.
Comment
I found this blog to be helpful to me. I plan to print out the email checklist and put them in a place to be able to refer to when needed. My ultimate goal as a teacher and coach is to give my students as much of my time as possible. This will help me to do that. Thanks, Logan Kirkland.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Monday, July 1, 2013
Book Trailer.. Where The Red Fern Grows
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Blog Post 15 Final Reflection
As I relect back over this class the last several weeks it amazes me how much I have learned. Both about this class as well as the things that I need to change moving forward in my teaching and coaching career. I know that my organizationl skills and time management plan that I used in the past is not going to get the job done. In the future I will take better advantage of my time and have a detailed plan to get me where I need to be.
As for my students in the future, I will use a lot that I have taken from ED 310. I will use technolgy to make my classes fun and exciting. I want to give my students the tools that they need to be successful, but I also want them to be able to think and do for themselves.
I will be teaching PE and coaching baseball in the future. One thing I have learned from playing baseball is that, while a player may have great athletic skills, they are not always a great baseball player. One reason for that is they don't know the game from a learning standpoint. I plan to use things that I have learned from this class to teach the game to the players. I plan to use blogs, youtube, etc. to get my players to understand situations of the game and what the best course of action is to be successful. I will use this in group settings and have some class time set aside as part of practice. I like the group learning because I have always been a team sport kind of guy. I think it teaches a very good lesson to a baseball player in that, it teaches him to trust in his teammate and understand that they have to work together to be successful.
As for my students in the future, I will use a lot that I have taken from ED 310. I will use technolgy to make my classes fun and exciting. I want to give my students the tools that they need to be successful, but I also want them to be able to think and do for themselves.
I will be teaching PE and coaching baseball in the future. One thing I have learned from playing baseball is that, while a player may have great athletic skills, they are not always a great baseball player. One reason for that is they don't know the game from a learning standpoint. I plan to use things that I have learned from this class to teach the game to the players. I plan to use blogs, youtube, etc. to get my players to understand situations of the game and what the best course of action is to be successful. I will use this in group settings and have some class time set aside as part of practice. I like the group learning because I have always been a team sport kind of guy. I think it teaches a very good lesson to a baseball player in that, it teaches him to trust in his teammate and understand that they have to work together to be successful.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
C4K
Summary
In this Ava educated us on different types of horses and breeds, she also told us about different competitions that you can do with horses. I was interested to learn about the different markings that horses have as well.
Comment
This was interesting to me because I have an uncle who has about 6 horses. He use to train barrel horses, but now he has stud horses and mares that he breeds and sales the colts. I really enjoyed your post and the knowledge that you have about horses. Great Job!
In this Ava educated us on different types of horses and breeds, she also told us about different competitions that you can do with horses. I was interested to learn about the different markings that horses have as well.
Comment
This was interesting to me because I have an uncle who has about 6 horses. He use to train barrel horses, but now he has stud horses and mares that he breeds and sales the colts. I really enjoyed your post and the knowledge that you have about horses. Great Job!
Project # 10
Finding the right tool
I will be teaching PE and Coaching baseball. The tool that will be most beneficial to me is youtube, with youtube I can film hitters, pitchers, fielders, etc. This will allow me to post this to youtube with comments and advice. I can have my students review the short recordings and work in their spare time to correct the problem areas. Once we are together again I can check to see what progress they have made and also make sure that they have been working on their own time.
This class has really made me open my eyes to ways of being a better teacher and coach. It has shown me ways to use technology to get my students involved and thinking of ways to improve.
I will be teaching PE and Coaching baseball. The tool that will be most beneficial to me is youtube, with youtube I can film hitters, pitchers, fielders, etc. This will allow me to post this to youtube with comments and advice. I can have my students review the short recordings and work in their spare time to correct the problem areas. Once we are together again I can check to see what progress they have made and also make sure that they have been working on their own time.
This class has really made me open my eyes to ways of being a better teacher and coach. It has shown me ways to use technology to get my students involved and thinking of ways to improve.
Final PLN
I have to admit that organization has always been tough for me. I juggle so many things that I struggle in this area a good deal. Symbaloo has really helped me to understand how to organize more effectively. It helps me to keep my personal and school stuff seperate, this allows me to be better organized and efficient. When I move into the teaching aspect it will allow me again to seperate personal, school and teaching materials. I have been a big internet guy for several years, but what this has done for me is it has given me a better understanding of how to do things more efficiently. As I mentioned in the beginning, organization is a weakness for me. Symbaloo has helped me to get this more under control and understand some things about organizing that will make me be able to use my time more wisely in the future. Symbaloo is now my friend!
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Project #13
EDM310 has been a great class and very insightful one at that! I can honestly say that this class and Dr. Strange has taught me more in one semester than I have learned in a full year of a regular class. I was introduced to different things in this class that I will use in the future for either personal use or in my future classroom as a teacher. Things like pinterest and PLN's. I have taken a lot of things out of this class that I will use in the future and in my professional career as a teacher.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Blog Post #14
Teachers being able to track what their students do is a great way of the future. Through E-Books they are able to see what their students read and don't read. Teachers want to know if their students are actually reading what they are assigned and they can also know if their are software problems so the students cannot lie about it.
We as teachers can use this to our advantage. We all know all students will not like us being able to know for a fact that a student didn't do an assigned portion or asignment. We will be able to tell who is giving their full 100% effort into the readings and who is not.
I being a student can't say I like this very much. I have taken some classes where the readings are too much to do in one setting without getting pre-occupied or losing interest. In college, being able to track all of your students readings will probably be a great shock to some teachers like Literature teachers. That is just too much to read.
Questions I would have are:
Does this really make class easier for you?
How do teachers around other schools feel about it?
Children with learning disabilities, how do they manage this?
As a college student I think that we are fully capable and should be fully responsible for the grades we make. I don't think we need a teacher over our shoulder in all situations. Once you are in college I think the teachers should let us grow up and prepare for being out on our own.
Blog Post #13
Brian Crosby:
In Mr. Brian Crosby's talk he showed how important it is to learn through social networking. He claims that we are taught to be taught but not how to learn. We should stop teaching our kids for the only purpose of good standardized test scores and really teach them how to learn properly and be open to knew information and how to understand that new information. Social networking could be great because the kids can be taught by things that really interest them and that will have them fully engaged.
Blended Learning Style:
Mr. Paul Anderson's video, Blended Learning Cycle he shows different ways of engaging his students. His cycle has 6 parts that spells quivers. The QU is for question and grabs students attention. I is for investigative experiments to help solve the question. V is for the video or podcasts he uses in instructions. E is elaboration for them to research the answer. R is for review where he makes sure the students understand the final outcome or the lesson. S is for summary where he gives a quiz to see what the lass has learned.
I believe that the Blended Learning Cycle is a great way to get your students to engage in a lesson and really learn things about whatever the topic may be. I think the investigative part would be the most fun for the younger students. I know when I was younger I used to love to dig into things. I will definitely teach off of this topic in the future.
In Mr. Brian Crosby's talk he showed how important it is to learn through social networking. He claims that we are taught to be taught but not how to learn. We should stop teaching our kids for the only purpose of good standardized test scores and really teach them how to learn properly and be open to knew information and how to understand that new information. Social networking could be great because the kids can be taught by things that really interest them and that will have them fully engaged.
Blended Learning Style:
Mr. Paul Anderson's video, Blended Learning Cycle he shows different ways of engaging his students. His cycle has 6 parts that spells quivers. The QU is for question and grabs students attention. I is for investigative experiments to help solve the question. V is for the video or podcasts he uses in instructions. E is elaboration for them to research the answer. R is for review where he makes sure the students understand the final outcome or the lesson. S is for summary where he gives a quiz to see what the lass has learned.
I believe that the Blended Learning Cycle is a great way to get your students to engage in a lesson and really learn things about whatever the topic may be. I think the investigative part would be the most fun for the younger students. I know when I was younger I used to love to dig into things. I will definitely teach off of this topic in the future.
Blog Post #12
Watch the video on Technology in Physical Education and tell me what your thoughts on how this would benefit our students. Two or more paragraphs
I think that technology not only should find its way into the classroom at a more frequent rate, but also in the gym classes. It gets old playing the same old games everys single day and doing the same activities. Even if it is only one day a week. In the video, the kids are using things such as dance revolution and the Wii fit to become more active and get exercise.
I think that getting students exercise through technology will impact more greatly on the kids who are not as good at sports as some of the other kids. The more athletic kids will like to play the traditional sports and be outside, but the other kids not so much. If you allow them to be able to play a virtual game and also get exercise, I think it benefits everybody as a whole because it something that they actually want to do and feel like it is something that they have to.
I think that technology not only should find its way into the classroom at a more frequent rate, but also in the gym classes. It gets old playing the same old games everys single day and doing the same activities. Even if it is only one day a week. In the video, the kids are using things such as dance revolution and the Wii fit to become more active and get exercise.
I think that getting students exercise through technology will impact more greatly on the kids who are not as good at sports as some of the other kids. The more athletic kids will like to play the traditional sports and be outside, but the other kids not so much. If you allow them to be able to play a virtual game and also get exercise, I think it benefits everybody as a whole because it something that they actually want to do and feel like it is something that they have to.
Blog Post #11
Ms. Cassidy:
Ms. Cassidy and her class really amazed me at the rate and age her students started using technology. It was really awesome to see first graders being able to teach themselves things after being taught the proper way to use technology. They were able to use technology to learn the alphabet and also use it to understand meanings of new words. This video really made me wish I was taught this way in elementary school. They have a larger understanding of things than I did when I was their age. When I do start teaching, I will more than likely be teaching high school students so will use blogs and podcasts and that sort of thing, but I would be ecstatic if my future students were introduced to technology and had a grasp or understanding of how to use these things before they ever even got to my class. That would be awesome! Then we could just jump into the criteria and wouldn't have to go through the learning stage of using the technology that we will be using!
Ms. Cassidy and her class really amazed me at the rate and age her students started using technology. It was really awesome to see first graders being able to teach themselves things after being taught the proper way to use technology. They were able to use technology to learn the alphabet and also use it to understand meanings of new words. This video really made me wish I was taught this way in elementary school. They have a larger understanding of things than I did when I was their age. When I do start teaching, I will more than likely be teaching high school students so will use blogs and podcasts and that sort of thing, but I would be ecstatic if my future students were introduced to technology and had a grasp or understanding of how to use these things before they ever even got to my class. That would be awesome! Then we could just jump into the criteria and wouldn't have to go through the learning stage of using the technology that we will be using!
Blog Post #10
1. The comments of students on Mr. Spencer's blog posts show me that they are not talking about pencils but are actually talking about the different types of computers. I think he is trying to express that both are computers and even though one is more expensive, they both do the same things. Either of them will get the job done in other words.
2. Why were Your Kids Playing Games shows that some principle and others in the school system are ver biased and closed minded. The teacher in this video knew that the students were getting more out of playing these educational games and being far more engaged into this instead of having the standardized test criteria slammed into their heads. Mr. Spencer shows that even though sometimes your higher authority doesn't agree with how you are teaching your students, you have to take risks and do what is best for your class and students.
Dr. Mcleod:
Even though he seemed to be very sarcastic in thi post, I do agree with the points he makes about people and their feelings towards technology. He makes the people who think badly and that down-talk techology seem beneath him and foolish, which they are in my opinion. As educators, if we want our students to succeed in the future, we must first encorporate technology into our overall criteria and have them exposed to the basics of it at an early age. Once they are older, we then can teach them the more difficult things and the things that will be needed in the workplace.
2. Why were Your Kids Playing Games shows that some principle and others in the school system are ver biased and closed minded. The teacher in this video knew that the students were getting more out of playing these educational games and being far more engaged into this instead of having the standardized test criteria slammed into their heads. Mr. Spencer shows that even though sometimes your higher authority doesn't agree with how you are teaching your students, you have to take risks and do what is best for your class and students.
Dr. Mcleod:
Even though he seemed to be very sarcastic in thi post, I do agree with the points he makes about people and their feelings towards technology. He makes the people who think badly and that down-talk techology seem beneath him and foolish, which they are in my opinion. As educators, if we want our students to succeed in the future, we must first encorporate technology into our overall criteria and have them exposed to the basics of it at an early age. Once they are older, we then can teach them the more difficult things and the things that will be needed in the workplace.
Blog Post #9
At the Teacher's Desk is a great video and these two men show us what teaching is really about! Mr. William Chamberlain and Mr. Joe McClung really try to do their best to inspire their students to be the best possible students that they can be. This is a great source that we as future educators can can back to at anytime in the future.
Mr. McClung's Volume-4 post was very inspiring and noteworthy. It sounded as id he was kind of boasting about himself but then I thought that doing what he did, it would be hard not to! He shows that it is not hard or unusual for some teachers to lose their spark for teaching and sometimes get in sort of a rut. We have to find new ways of challenging ourselves to keep us on edge and giving our students the best we have every day. If we expect our students to do the best they can, we should also give them the best possible effort that we can!
I read the post that he talks about always trying to be in good standard with the people above you! I know that this may sound like brown-nosing but once you think about it, it is actually very smart. But once again he goes back to the kids and expresses that the kids are always first priority and that pleasing your superiors is important but not if it gets in the way of the kids.
Mr. McClung's Volume-4 post was very inspiring and noteworthy. It sounded as id he was kind of boasting about himself but then I thought that doing what he did, it would be hard not to! He shows that it is not hard or unusual for some teachers to lose their spark for teaching and sometimes get in sort of a rut. We have to find new ways of challenging ourselves to keep us on edge and giving our students the best we have every day. If we expect our students to do the best they can, we should also give them the best possible effort that we can!
I read the post that he talks about always trying to be in good standard with the people above you! I know that this may sound like brown-nosing but once you think about it, it is actually very smart. But once again he goes back to the kids and expresses that the kids are always first priority and that pleasing your superiors is important but not if it gets in the way of the kids.
Blog Post #8
Dr. Miller:
Watching Richard Miller-This is How We Dream 1 & 2 makes you realize that change should be forthcoming. Change as in, changing with technology. Some things he said will catch you off guard and seem off topic.
As educators we must adapt to the new day and age with technology. If we don't adapt we are failing to provide our students with the full education they need for the real world and it's jobs. Our future students deserve the best and that's what we should give them.
Multimedia is a thing of the new age and no it doesn't scare me. It actually encourages me that I as a future educator have the opportunity to engage my students into this a quite an early age. I look at it as being ahead of everyone else in my selected field.
Carly's Blog Post #12:
Carly is by far one of the biggest overachievers I have ever read about or heard about!! That's not a bad thing at all! She is so excited about being an educator that by the end of the blog post she has you very excited. Her links and videos were very helpful and I like that she expresses that "good teachers lead by example", I also believe that!
Chipper:
I really related to this video mainly because of procrastination. I feel the same way Chipper does sometimes. College is hard if you make it that way. If you stay up on your work and do the things you are supposed to it makes it easier. This class and Dr. Strange have really showed me that there is no room for procrastination in some areas. The classes that you can't procrastinate in are usually your better classes!
EDM310 For Dummies:
The overkill in this video was amazing. This class is very time consuming and you have to stay up on your work. As long as you stay on schedule and do not procrastinate you should be successful! Iloved the video and think that it should be shown at the beginning of the semester.
Learn to Change, Change to Learn:
In this video, students are exposed to technology all the time. Some teachers are so dead set in not letting technology into the classroom. I think one reason is because the teacher is not properly advanced in technology. If they let it in, it would give them an edge up on a large groip of students and have them ready for the outside world as it is today.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Project #9 PLN Progress Report
My Personal Learning Network is reall starting to come along. After learning more about a PLN in my last blog post and reading about others it has made it pretty understanding. I have started using twitter as my main tool in my personal PLN. Twitter is an amazing tool to use for a thing such as this. There are all kinds ofdifferent people and pages to reference to on Twitter. Facebook is also a good way to strengthen your PLN. It also has many educators and education pages to help better your educational future. I am also starting to use Pinterest as a resource for my personal PLN. There are thousands of things I can use for stregthening my PLN. I like to keep my main favorites around the core and if I can't find what I'm looking for in either Google, Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest, I will seek my content elsewhere.
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