EPEC Announces Distribution Agreement with Bonnie’s Fitware

Alliance Means Increased Offerings for Physical Educators

LANSING, Mich. – EPEC (Exemplary Physical Education Curriculum) will partner with Bonnie’s Fitware in order to provide additional physical education materials and products to teachers around the world. The agreement for EPEC to immediately assume worldwide distribution responsibilities of the products was announced today.

EPEC is an award winning standards-based physical education curriculum for grades K-12 which is built around the NASPE (National Association for Sport and Physical Education) learning standards.

Bonnie’s Fitware Inc. was founded by Dr. Bonnie Mohnsen, and is a leader in providing the physical education profession with state of the art technological instructional solutions and standards based physical education curriculum.

“The decision to assume distribution of the Bonnie’s Fitware products was based on our fundamental commitment to ensure quality standards-based physical education for the nation’s youth. We believe that the best way to address the child obesity problem is to physically educate our youth, which will lead to a healthier nation,” said Dr. Glenna DeJong, EPEC’s vice president of educational programs. “Bonnie’s products compliment and reinforce our EPEC products and will serve to assist us in meeting the needs of the physical education community.”

EPEC will integrate the Bonnie’s Fitware products into its marketing and sales efforts and be prepared to fulfill orders for the 2009-2010 school year. Bonnie’s Fitware Inc. will continue to offer selected resource products, on-line instructional learning and conduct professional workshops. The organizations have also agreed to co-promote both the EPEC and Bonnie’s Fitware product offerings.

Dr. Mohnsen is a nationally acclaimed author in the areas of physical education and technology, and has conducted hundreds of workshops on the use of technology in effective physical education instruction.

“EPEC has become the leader in the physical education community in providing standards-based physical education. Their marketing and sales efforts have proven both effective and impressive,” Dr. Mohnsen said. “This alliance will allow me to concentrate my efforts on the development of new products in the area of technology and on-line instructional resources, while being assured that our current products will be effectively offered to the physical education community.”

In 2002, EPEC received the award for Excellence in Prevention Research and Research Translation in Chronic Disease from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Research done in 2005 by the CDC reported that students who were taught with EPEC increased their skills in the measured motor skills over students taught using other curricula. In addition, students taught with EPEC showed more knowledge of physical activity and greater motor-skill self-efficacy. For more information about EPEC, visit www.EPEC4kids.com.

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Additionally, we will continue to sell books and training manuals as well as offer our online professional development courses and seminars. This newsletter will continue to be published on a monthly basis. Our general web site located at http://www.pesoftware.com will be updated during the month of August - so look for big changes there in August.

Finally, we will continue to sell products at the college and university level including our popular College Muscle Flash software program and TOP (teacher observation program) that works on Macintosh, Windows, and the iPhone/iPod Touch.

EPEC is taking over the marketing and sells of our Standards-based Middle School Physical Education Curriculum, Standards-based High School Physical Education Curriculum, task cards, and instructional software for the K-12 market. Please visit our products at EPEC.

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PowerPoint: Quick Tips

Print Handouts

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Two Clipboards

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Excel: Quick Tips

Filtering

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Spell Check

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Use Your iPod as a Removable Hard Disk

Did you know that your iPod is actually a hard disk? You just need to tell it that it is okay to act like a regular hard disk. Connect your iPod to your computer and the Preferences Summary tab automatically appears. On the Summary tab, in the Options section, turn on the checkbox for Enable Disk Use. Now, you only need to do this when you have the "auto-update" feature active in the iTunes Preferences. Otherwise, if you have chosen to update your iPod manually, the Enable Disk Use feature is on by default. Your iPod will now appear on your desktop, and you can add files by dragging-and-dropping them onto the iPod icon just like any other removable hard disk. You can use this feature to transfer files between computers. When you have finished, you do have to eject your iPod manually by Control-clicking (PC: right clicking) on the iPod icon and choosing Eject.

IPod Tips

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Questions/Answers

Why have you made an agreement with EPEC to sell most of your K-12 products?

Bonnie's Fitware Inc. decided to focus most of our energy on research and development. EPEC will take over the responsibilities for marketing and sells. This will free up time for Bonnie's Fitware Inc. to create new products on a shorter timeline. We are very excited about getting our instructional software sports series into the hands of the customer as well as our grade 6 through high school online courses for students.

Online Courses: Sixth Grade - High School

Bonnie's Fitware Inc. will begin hosting online physical education courses for students in grades fifth through high school during the 2009-2010 school year. Participants can pay a fee per student and we will host the site, or they can pay for the entire program and host it themselves. The high school program will roll out (one course per semester) beginning Fall 2009. The middle school curriculum will begin with a one semester course for grades 5, 6, 7, and 8 in Spring 2010 and a full year program for grades 5, 6, 7, and 8 for 2010-2011. Stay tuned for more information. If you need pricing information for a PEP grant, contact Bonnie Mohnsen. Local districts will need to provide a teacher to monitor student progress.

College Technology in Physical Education

Check out our support page with videos and agendas for undergraduate and graduate courses.

http://www.pesoftware.com/ Support/techbk.html

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