Using Technology in the Classroom.

I am excited about the future and incorporating technology into a physical education classroom.   I believe there is a stereotype that Physical Education teachers do include any technology in their teaching and I hope throughout my career that I can help prove this stereo type wrong.  I have listed a few ways I will use technology in my classroom, but I am not limited to these.

I will use a Teacher Web Page to communicate with my class and their parents.  It is a great way to set up the entire year.  On the web page, I will include information about myself and the school, contact information, classroom rules/procedures and a full list of outside resources.  One example of an outside resource that will be included on the web page is a list of fun activities one can do on a snow day.  A Teacher Web Page is valuable as a communication device.  Teachers can speak to the parents of the students and let them know how the year is going and even post pictures and videos of the class.      

Using a Web Quest would an excellent way to implement the sports education model into a class. In a sports education model students will learn every aspect of a sports team, including the coaches, players, manager act. By using a Web Quest, I could have students look up all the information online the night before, rather than wasting precious class time.

Podcast are great to use in Physical Education. Many PE teachers can use them to set up a lesson they would like to do the following day. However, one-way I will like to use podcast is a soundtrack to my class. I cannot only put music on the Pod can also put instructions. For example, if I want to do a fifty-minute class in five-minute circuits, I can have the music switch every five minutes with the prerecorded instructions of what they are supposed to do.