Saturday, March 30, 2013

Chapter 7: Audio Q2

Reflection Questions 1. Several Ideas were presented on how to use audio technology in physical education. What others ways can you think of to use audio technology in your classes? Other great ways to use audio technology in PE classes is to show videos of different sports to show how the skills are performed in professional sports. There also may be students who have trouble pronouncing some of the words in class, a great way to avoid this is to work with that student using audio technology to help sound out the word or help break it down. This tool was used for me at my high school as I had trouble sounding out different words in class and my teacher allowed me to listen to the word because I had trouble sounding it out. Another great way to use audio technology is for students to listen to a word and have them decide what sport it belongs to and can they use it in a sentence. Also, you can use manipulative, non-manipulative and locomotor words to see if the students to properly decide if the word would fit into one of those three categories.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Using Video: chapter 6


Chapter 6: Using Video
Andrew Hoffman
EDU 470
3/9/13


Reflection Question
1)    Several ideas were presented on how to use video technology in physical education.  What other ways can you think of to use video technology in your classes?
There are so many physical education teachers who have access to technology but do not use it effectively to benefit their students.  More teachers should explore the IPad and use the video technology that it offers like coach’s eye and other applications to capture the movement of their students.  By using other technologies associated video technology, PE teachers can properly assess their students movement and analyze if they are in the initial stage, elementary stage or mature stage. Also, teachers are not able to watch all of their students at once so using video, they can watch over the entire class and review the video if anything happened in class.

Projects

            1) Make a list of the features you would like on a video camera.  Then, peruse a catalog for video cameras that fit your criteria.  Finally, go on the Internet and compare reviews of these video cameras.  Select a video camera and write a brief explanation of why you selected it.
The camera that I have selected to review is the HERO3: Black edition Go Pro video camera.  The reason I have selected this video camera is because it is made for extreme conditions and situations and in physical education classes, you may never know what situations you will run into.  With this camera, you can also control it with a Wi-Fi remote which is a huge addition as you can control them from anywhere in the room.  It is also waterproof and has a great shutter speed to capture video an excellent frame rates.

This video camera is also made for sports so using it in physical education class is a perfect situation.

http://gopro.com/cameras/hd-hero3-black-edition#features