WEEK 5 Progress Toward Achieving Goals

Effectiveness of my Actions:
The students were able to identify one specific issue directly related to the community about obesity. One specific action the students implemented into their own personal lives was to increase outside of school recreational activities. One resource we used was mypyramid.com an internet resource tohelp understand the types of food we should eat. Dr. Brown came and spoke to all six of my period about nutirtion and diet and how food is fuel. Lastly, I made an appointment to meet with the districts IT specialist to request new software for our school.

So Far:
Currently we are working on our blog about obesity and how we can cure our direct community. In class we have created voice threads about the awareness and prevention of obesity. One new activity the students will employ before spring break is a personal at home fitness family plan. This will get more people involved behind the cause.

Whats to learn:
My class needs to have a classroom set of laptops with portability and internet access and storage. This needs to be kept in the gym or we need to be assigned a classroom specifically for PE. There is so much for me to learn I am excited about what I have learned the students ar as well. My next tool is Imovie and podcasts, I want to play with these over spring break.

Adjusting the plan to fit the need:
As this plan is coming together adjustments and modifications are necessary, for example adjusting the time line, providing clearer directions, modifying the rubric and assessments, having the students switch groups or do more research on unclear sources. I have spoken to many about allowing PE more access to the computer lab, the tech, his assistant, the principal, the district specialist and now we are being taken serious. My colleagues are on board now and helping with my technology fight for equality. I am excited.

Week Four: GAME PLAN PROGRESS

The information and the resources I need are not readily accessible like math scores or reading statistics. The process takes time, research and is not easy but anything worth having usually isnt. I am finding the information I need in order to engage students in exploring real world issues and help them in solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources (ISTE NETS-T, 2008).

Adjusting my action plan slightly will be necessary to accomplish the goal. Only certain aspects of it have been met like research via the internet, news resources and local medical profeessionals. In addition to completeing part of the research I have had successful meetings with the IT professional on campus.

Physical Education has so much technological information and digital tools I had no clue about. Every day I am learning so much about how to reach my students by differentiating instruction, modifying activities and varying assessments. I have learned about blogging, voice threads, imove, power point and so many other applications.

Many new questions and ideas have risen from how do I purchase this software for the entire school, to how can I get time during professional development to teach my colleagues. I have a new found respect for technology and how it fits into the Physical Education curriculum.

References:
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Week 3 Game Plan UDL

Located in the blog comment section is my UDL updated plan

Unable to Copy and Paste my GAME plan

For some reason I was not able to copy and paste or cut and paste my innitial game plan into the blog, but somehow was able to put it in the comment section of my blog. I hope you will still be able to read it and comment on it and gain some perspective on how I plan to help my students in oue Physical Education class.