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Table of Contents
Strapless Heart Monitor
We Are Teachers
Basketball and PowerPoint
New Devices
Future Devices
Fitware Tips
Research
MicroSoft Word Tips
HD DVD Winner Declared
Free Software
Seminars
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October 7, 2008
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April 24, 2009
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March 17-18, 2009
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April 20-21, 2009
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Here is what participants are saying about these seminars:
This course has given us a lot of the tools and resources we need to bring our current class offerings up to a “distinction” level.
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Can't attend - you can still purchase the presentation on CD to watch at your leisure.
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Fall Online Courses
The registration fee for each course is $100. The registration fee covers the online course materials and a letter of completion. Textbooks are required for most courses. Click on each course for additional information. The fall semester will run August 15, 2008 - December 1, 2008. You can sign up anytime between now and October 15, 2008. You may take as many courses as you like.
College credit is available from Emporia State University. These are 700-level courses - one unit each. The additional cost for college credit is $356 for out-of-state residence and $277 for Kansas residence for each course. We are also exploring continuing education credit for lower fee.
California Update
Fitness Software Update to align with the new state format is available at:
This software will only work for current owners of the software. Simply unzip the file and replace your current file by the same name with the new one. If you had data in the old file, be sure to keep it. You can click the import button in the new file and transfer the data from the old file as long as you haven't deleted it.
Products
Elementary Task -
Movement Qualities
Strapless Heart MonitorFinally a heart monitor that works without a chest transmitter. Many of you are aware that I have not been an advocate of strapless heart monitors. But I told you that when I found one that was accurate I would let you know. Well - here it is - the Reebok Strapless Heart Monitor. This research-proven heart monitor works by placing your thumb and index finger on the watch face. Check the research on this monitor in the article below. |
Features: Time of Day/Daily Alarm |
We Are Teachers
WeAreTeachers wants to avail teachers of the wonderful new tools of the digital age. In the Web 2.0 world, technology empowers individuals and groups to come together for the purpose of aggregating resources and knowledge. From social networks and e-commerce, to on-line video and other forms of digital content, the time is right for leveraging these trends and apply them to teaching and learning.
WeAreTeachers provides a tangible business opportunity, enabling teachers to productize what they do, to be paid for their expert advice, and to have a stake in the knowledge marketplace.
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Using this powerful network, teachers gain access to the latest online physical education and health community (weareteachers.com/web/47903/home), tools and e-commerce solutions. Teachers benefit by recommending products or services, as well as by selling their own content in their own marketplace. Go to weareteachers.com/web/guest/create_account to join the growing community of educators. Sign up today and enter to win a free video iPOD Nano!
Sample Lesson - Basketball
NASPE Standard 6: Value physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self expression, and/or social interaction.
Lesson Objective:
1. Present the game of basketball as played during an assigned decade.
Summary:
Students are involved in a basketball/invasion sport unit. In previous lessons, the students learned the basic skills of basketball and have begun combining the skills in three-on-three basketball games. In this lesson students learn about the history of basketball. In addition, they are assigned a particular decade and asked to research the game of basketball during that time period and create a computer-assisted presentation.
Equipment:
•Basketballs (11 for 30 students).
•Flags (six for every 30 students).
Software:
•Computer(s) or computer lab with Internet connection available for student use outside of physical education.
•Computer with projection device and Internet connection available for use in class.
•Software: Electronic presentation (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote)
Instructional Materials:
Assignment sheet (one per student) describing in detail the necessary components of the presentation and the assessment rubric (pull information from Instruction section).
Description
1. Reviews layup, rebound, set shot, and dribbling skills.
2. Explains the basketball research project and assigns a specific decade to each group:
•Search the Internet for descriptions of the rules of basketball during assigned decade.
•Summarize your findings.
•Create a storyboard depicting your presentation of the game.
•Transfer the storyboard to the electronic software using text, pictures, video clips, and audio clips where appropriate.
•Refine the presentation.
•Present the game.
3. Discusses the ethical issues associated with research.
4. Describes activity stations.
5. Supervises and provides feedback to students as they rotate through the following stations:
•Layup/rebound drill. The first person in the line on the right executes a layup while the first person in the line on the left rebounds and then passes to the next person in the layup line. Person performing layup then joins rebounding line and rebounder then joins layup line.
•Three-on-three basketball.
•Set shot drill.
Form pairs with one person shooting and one person retrieving. Switch roles after every three set shots.
•Computer station.
One student works the keyboard/mouse, one student reads the task card directions, one student reads the screen, and one student determines the group’s next action.
•Dribble tag. Slip a flag into waistband and dribble a ball as you try to take other player’s flags while protecting your own.
*Repeat stations as needed for larger classes.
Closure
1. Asks students to describe ethical and legal issues associated with conducting research using the Internet.
2. For homework, instructs students to meet as a group and create an electronic presentation on the history of basketball during the assigned decade.
Other Options
1. Other options for the computer use:
•Have students meet in the computer lab on a subsequent day to research the history of basketball during their assigned decade.
•Instruct students to research the history of basketball during their assigned decade on their own for homework.
New Devices
Smart Insole - a 3-mm-thick insole and small transmitter from a company called Zephyr provides real-time data on foot pressure distribution and stride mechanics. The data is wirelessly transmitted to a computer that graphically illustrate exactly your movement.
Pregame Optimizer - fasten the Omega-wave Sport sensors to your head and chest before a workout to measure your heart-rate variability, ECG, and slow-wave brain activity. Software translates the findings into recommendations for the type and intensity of workout you should perform on a given day.
Future Devices
O2 Tape - optimal oxygen intake means optical energy. Near-infrared spectroscopy imaging can measure the oxygen content in your blood through your skin. The University of Essex in the UK is currently working on building small, flexible sensors you can lash to your arm.
Fitware Tips
Record Book
What do I do if I have less than 12 standards?
It is fine to not use all of the standard fields. But if you have more than ten grades per standard, then you may want to consider splitting one standard over two standard fields so that you have room for more grades.
What do I do if I have more than 12 standards?
I have been conducting a review of performance indicators recommended or mandated by state departments. I have found very few states that have more than 12 per grade level. However, if that is the case then you will need to combine performance indicators for grading purposes. If this is a problem for you please let us know so that we can look at increasing the number of standard fields in our Record Book software.
How do I eliminate data when starting a new semester?
You don't need to eliminate data. I would take that file and zip it - in order to archive it. You then install a new program from your CD. Just be sure that you have either zipped it the old file or moved it to a different location so that new program does not write over it. You can also import names from the "old" file if you have the same students.
Research
Reebok Strapless Heart Monitor
Independent comparison and evaluation study performed by Sung H. Chun, M.D., Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
The heart monitor was evaluated to assess its accuracy and reliability in obtaining heart rates by comparing its output data directly to electrocardiographic recordings obtained by a cardiac monitor and used in cardiac catheterization laboratory observation unit at Stanford University Hospital.
Results: Correlation coefficients were .9813, .9144, and .8782 during rest, 4 mph exercise, and 6 mph exercise respectively.
Conclusion: This experiment clearly shows that the Reebok Strapless heart monitor is accurate and reliable providing heart monitoring data both at rest and during exercise.
Microsoft Word 2007
Using Styles
A style in Word is a named group of predefined formatting elements. You can use styles that come with Word or create your own. There are four different types of styles: paragraph styles, character styles, linked styles, and list styles.
Paragraph styles - contain formatting for a paragraph, such as alignment, line spacing, and space after a paragraph, as well as formatting for characters, such as font and size.
Character styles - contain formatting for individual characters, such as font, size, bold, and color. Text must be selected for a character style to be applied to it.
Linked styles - are identical to paragraph styles except that they are applied to selected text within a paragraph. Paragraph styles apply paragraph and character formatting to the entire paragraph. Linked styles apply paragraph formatting to the entire paragraph but character formatting only to the selected text. The heading styles is an example of Linked styles.
List styles - can contain up to nine custom levels within a single style, making it easier to use.
Check out the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab of the Ribbon
DVD: Winner Declared
Blu-ray has won the high-definition format war. Future purchases of high-definition equipment and media should be in blu-ray format and not HD DVD format.
Free Software
AbiWord - abiword.com - word processing software
KompoZer - kompozer.net - web design software
Scirbus - scribus.net - desktop publishing software
Calendar - calendar.yahoo.com - calendar software
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