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Technology is a great and fascinating tool. The uses of it
our only limited by our imagination, creativity and of course our
budget. Here are a few suggestions that require just as much
work but not as much money.
PELINKS Staff,
Guest Technology Section Editors
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The Human Heart Online
This website allows health/fitness instructors to demonstrate
tremendous detail of the heart to their students. Students
are able to observe the history, development, function, and
anatomy of the human heart. Let your students learn all about
the function of this cardiac muscle through the power of
the web. This site contains color photos, heart mpeg movies,
sound files of the heart beating, and classroom activities.
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
source: Busy Teachers' Website K-12/Sciences
Another Online Heart
One of many online resources at NOVA, this website program
tells the story of the pursuit of a practical artificial heart.
Here's what you'll find online: 1) Map of the Human Heart: how
the human heart works with an automatically changing color graphic
of a heart in cross-section; 2) Amazing Heart Facts; 3) Artificial
Human; 4) Pioneering Surgeon: O. H. Frazier: O. H. Frazier has
done more heart transplants than anyone else alive, well over
700. He talks about his work, his thoughts, and his hopes; 5)
Operation: Heart Transplant: try your hand as a heart-transplant
surgeon in this simplified online procedure; 6) additional resources.
Click here
to visit.
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Combining technology with elementary physical
education
Using new forms of technology in classroom settings is becoming
more and more popular. There are many forms of technology that can
be used today that can improve classroom curriculum. For example,
a recent Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
article highlighted a project that combined both a third grade physical
education class and a literature class.
The highlighted project combined the use of today's technology
(still photography, digital cameras) with an English class (poetry
assignment).
Third-grade students were selected because of the poetry focus
and transitional nature of gymnastics for this age group. These
students attended physical education once a week for 45 minutes,
and the total length of the project was six weeks. Each individual
student created a developmentally appropriate, five-stunt gymnastic
routine. The students then designed and practiced their routines
while recording them with digital cameras.
The next two steps of this project were to come up with a poem
that described their routines, and then to set that poem to their
recorded performance. In the end the students created a video that
was shown concurrently with their reading poems aloud to the class.
To learn more about this project, check out the October 2002 Journal
of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
Source: Journal of Physical Education, Recreation,
Dance. October, 2002
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Online Technology Newsletter Gives Some
Video Tips on Taping in the Gym
The October 2002 Online Technology Newsletter gave these tips on
video taping. Gymnasiums are notoriously difficult environments
in which to white balance, so don't feel alone. You have, most likely,
mercury vapor lights, for which your camera does not have a preset.
In addition, the floor of the gym, most often of a yellow hue, reflects
a large amount of light and contributes to the color temperature
of the light as well. If there are windows in the gym and you shoot
during the day, you will get mixed temperatures from the two light
sources. In that case, you may encounter different light temperatures,
depending on where you point the lens.
Mercury vapor lights, if in fact that is what you are dealing with,
do not contain certain portions of the visible spectrum and therefore
make it very difficult for the camera to balance. Adding another
light source, however, does not seem to be a logical answer to your
situation. You would have to introduce a huge amount of light to
the gym and would be adding yet another color temperature to the
mix.
Tricking the camera could be your best bet. First make sure the
camera takes a reading off the white card and that it in fact is
balancing to that card. You might try putting the card near the
floor, which contains the most intense yellow light. If you still
have no luck and you are sure that the camera is doing the job,
try using color-correction filters mounted on your lens or use colored
gels held in front of the lens to trick the camera when white balancing
to the white card. You do not want to add the opposite color; you
will in a sense be correcting the color temperature entering your
camera and multiplying the offending hues. If you use the gel method,
colors like yellow or amber will get your camera to cool down the
temperature of the available light. The difficulty will be avoiding
too drastic a swing in the cool direction.
Check out this newsletter
to learn more on technology in today's PE world. This months issue
also gives tips on website evaluation, online classes, and DVD use.
source: Online Technology Newsletter October 2002
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