New Year greetings and welcome to another "Technology & PE" section on PELINKS4U. If you are successfully using technology in your PE program, please share your ideas with other readers. Also, we would be happy to try to find answers to any questions you may have. Help us to keep this page beneficial by sending us feedback, questions, and contributions. Thanks.
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Top Websites from PE Central
There are many good Web Sites at this link, which have been purposefuly selected because they provide information with "instructional value" for the K-12 Health and Physical Educator.
Physical Educators are finding that technology can enhance productivity, communication, research and learning. One of the best sources to keep physical educators up-to-date on current trends in using technology is: Online Technology Newsletter - Physical Education K-12, which is written and published by Bonnie Mohnsen.
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John Williams
John Williams is a physical education specialist at Ayden Elementary School, Pitt County, North Carolina. He maintains a wonderful web site about his physical education program. Check out his Nontraditional Gymnastics site which includes definitions, how to get started, lesson plans, activities, assessments, routines, ideas on classroom setups, equipment, and links to developmentally appropriate sites.
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Instead of using our listservs to discuss topics, start posting technology PE questions to the PE-Forum, then email your favorite listserv to invite comments ON THE FORUM rather than to everyone on the email list!
The PE-Forum is easy-to-use once you complete a first time registration. Check it out !
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Bonnie Mohnsen writes and publishes a monthly newsletter to keep K-12 physical educators abreast of current trends in using technology in physical education.
This month there are many articles of interest, some of which are listed below. To find out more, check out the full articles which can be found at:
The Online Technology Newsletter |
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Organizing Your eMail
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Free Internet Resources: Virtual Tours, Exercises, Quizzes, Tests, Certificate Maker, Free Worksheets, and much more.
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Online Resource Encourages Creative Teaching
Disney Learning Partnership has launched www.disneylearning.org, an extensive online resource for educators.
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Free Source for Educator-Reviewed Classroom Content
The Lightspan Partnership has developed Lightspan.com, a free K-12 education portal that offers proprietary resources, curriculum-based content, and educator-reviewed search results. The portal helps teachers find high-quality educational content, tools and projects for the classroom.
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"Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure."
-- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Walden, 96
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How TV Affects Kids
Research has shown that children who consistently spend more than 10 hours per week watching TV are more likely to be overweight, aggressive, and slower to learn in school.
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Product Information & Reviews |
References & Resources
Are You Paying Too Much? Are you familiar with the many web sites that allow you to compare product prices? If not, check out the sites listed on the PELINKS4U References & Resources page. You can also access this page, together with the many other link pages, through clicking down on the PE Links menu bar at the top left of your screen.
More References & Resources
Half Price Computers, Inc. is one of Texas' largest independent computer resellers. They stock a large selection of new and pre-owned computers, including notebooks, desktops, and servers. In addition, they also carry a large variety of monitors, modems, and a huge variety of other hardware and software items. Half Price currently has a warehouse and a retail area, both located at their facility in Richardson.
Schedule Wizard 2000
The world's easiest and best league scheduler just got better! Schedule Wizard, used by thousands of sports leagues world wide.
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PELINKS4U is made possible through the generous support of several site sponsors. This month, we welcome two new sponsors: Athletic Stuff and Direct Case. Please show your appreciation for their support by clicking on the banners and logos of our sponsors, and taking a few minutes to visit their web sites. Thanks.
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TrackStar
TrackStar is a free service that helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) into lessons.
You can find a track by searching by keyword, author, or themes and standards. Or, you can make or edit a track, make a quiz for your track, or build a web page for you track. This means that you can create your own curriculum web page that guides your students to the web pages of your choice. In addition to the web page information, you may ask questions appropriate to that web site and assess student learning.
The TrackStar tutorial helps you find a track, pre-plan a track, make a track, or edit a track. Additionally, TrackStar has many excellent lessons that have already been developed. For example by using the keyword "fitness" there were 232 lessons developed with titles such as nutrition, healthy heart, jump roping, locomotor skills, healthy nervous system, etc.
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Prism
A project from Missouri which supports disciplinary teams working on curriculum revision and technology integration has excellent tutorials.
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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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