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Due to the holiday season; all orders must be received by Saturday, December 10 in order to ship before the new year.
Featured Articles
Student Response System
Have you ever wondered what your students are thinking?
 Have you every wondered how much your students are learning? A student response system provides you with the information you need. Well, the answer is here, the student response system. each student receives a keypad with numbers of a dial on it. The keypad is connected either wired or wirelessly, to a computer outfitted with software that automatically tabulates the results. During class, the teacher asks a question, and the students respond using their keypads (some keypads allows for "dual polling" so that two students can use one pad). The results are tabulated by the computer, and placed into a chart, table or other form for both the teacher and/or the students to view. This provides the teacher with instant, specific feedback, and it gives the students a chance to see what others are thinking.
Using PowerPoll, a question can be asked on a normal PowerPoint slide and results chart shows up on the same slide. Simply type in a a question and then insert a PowerPoll using the "More Controls Toolbox icon" on the controls toolbar. PowerPoll properties give you control over colors and styles of the response graph. Polling the students during class is as easy as clicking the small keypad icon that appears on every slide containing a PowerPoll. A countdown clock gives the students time to punch their responses into the keypads. A summary graph of responses follows immediately.
Other Devices
The Right Camcorders for Observing Teachers
 The Sony DCR-DVD403 unit is the first consumer camcorder to include Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator. This uni- que technology incorporates built-in, multi-channel microphones, great for recording lessons or dance performances.
It has a 3.3 Megapixel Advanced HAD CCD for higher picture quality video and outstanding 3 megapixel still images. For viewing on wide-screen televisions, the model has a 2.7 inch wide hybrid SwivelScreen Touch-panel LCD screen.
Record images directly to DVD and let the student or teacher take the DVD with them!
Projection System for Physical Education
Here is a good projector for use in physical education. InFocus Projector LP 820 has 3200 lumens, 16.7 million colors, and projects an image 40" to 200" diagonal from a distance of five feet to 32.8 feet. The contrast ratio is 800:1 and the panel resolution is 1024 x 768. The projector comes with a two year warranty. Want a projector with more lumens? Email us at sales@pesoftware.com for suggestions!
Pocket PC
Do you want an affordable Pocket PC that will meet all your physical education needs? The HP iPAQ RX 3115 has a 300 MHz Samsung processor with 56 MB memory. Its 3.5" transflective screen with 65 K colors makes the screen easy to read outside in the sun. The devices comes with WLAN 802.11b, Bluetooth 1.1, and IrDA.
Office Tips
PowerPoint 3d and Shadow Effects
Add a shadow to an object (such as a box or text):
1. Click on the box
2. Click on the Drawing toolbar's Shadow Style button
3. Choose from one of the 20 styles
Add a 3D Effect to an object
1. Click on the object
2. Click on the 3D Style Button on the Drawing toolbar
3. Choose one of the 20 effects
4. Use one or more of the next four buttons to tilt the shape up, down, left, and right.
5. Use of or more of the next three buttons to adjust the angle of the 3D effect, the direction of the simulated lighting, and the simulated surface of your 3D object.
6. Use the final button to control the color in a setup like that used to control shadows.
Click on image to visit their site:
Web Pages for December
Ancient Olympics
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/ olympicintro.shtml
Frisbee Tips
http://www.frisbee.com/freestyle/tips/basic.html
Rules
http://www.rulescentral.com
Olympic Movement
http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp
Gray's Anatomy
http://www.bartleby.com/107/
Lab Tests Online
http://labtestsonline.org/
Spring 2006 Online Courses
February 1, 2006 - May 15, 2006
Sign up:
Each course is $100 plus an additional $50 for college credit if needed. Click on each course for more information. You may register through April 1, 2006.
Task Cards: Package of the Month
Basic Skills Task Cards
 Basic Skills Task Cards includes forty task cards that focus on the basic skills for basketball, volleyball, soccer, golf, tennis, bowling, football, speedball, hockey, and track and field. This is a great "first set" for you to try to see if it fits with your teaching style.
Remember all of our task cards run one dollar or less per card - and you have permission to reproduce as often as you like at your school. Specify CD when you order (instead of card stock) and get both the color and line drawing versions.
Funding Sources
InfoSource Grant for Online Tools/Training
http://www.howtomaster.com
Deadline: December 31, 2005
Youth Nutrition and Fitness Grant Program. Maximum award: $10,000. Eligibility: community-based groups. Deadline: February 1, 2006.
Nickelodeon's "Let's Just Play" Giveaway Program - one million from September 2005 to June 2006. http://www.kellogg.com.
NIKE Bowerman Track Renovation Program
http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/ nikebiz.jhtml?page =26&item= bowerman
Deadline: ongoing through May 31, 2009
2004-2005 Fundraising Through Recycling Campaign
http://www.cartridges4kids.ca/contest/
contest.htm Deadline: ongoing
Hasbro Programs for Children Grants
http://www.hasbro.org
Deadline: ongoing |
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New Products
TV Tennis
 Get up and play some TV Tennis! Tennis is a great way to develop fitness and keep both your reflexes and hand-to eye coordination sharp! But often you need a partner. TV Tennis gives you one! In fact, you can select from four different opponents with different styles! TV Tennis plugs right in into your television-no game console is needed. Your paddle senses your hand motions and sends the resulting shot back to your TV opponent!
Combat Zone Fighting Arena
 The New Combat Zone Fighting Arena with 4 RF interactive body sensors connected to each foot and hand lets you mimic every move of your favorite fighting character. With the PS2 Combat Zone Fighting Arena, left, right, up and down movements are controlled via a mat with your feet while every kick and punch is done for real. Works with all Playstation 2 games, but most suited for fighting games.
Energy Deluxe Dance Pad
 The Energy Deluxe dance pad features super sensitive-no delay sensors. This pad offers a three in one multi-platform plug that allows interfacing with PS&PS2, Xbox, and PC/Mac via USB. From complete novices to experienced experts, you can now experience skill level that can match your abilities.
Featured Products
Muscle Flash
 We have updated each of our Muscle Flash software programs. The software has a practice/reference section plus a quiz section for testing student understanding of muscle names, functions, exercises, and location.
Products: New Version
Documents to Go: Version 8
 Documents to Go is now at Version 8. The new version now supports open Native PDF files including e-mail attachments. Other new features include:
- Support for embedded graphics
- Word wrap and page layout options
- Multiple zoom levels
DDR Pads and Games - now available for XBOX
Professional Development
Mark you calendars now to see Bonnie in the following states during the 2005-2006 school year:
Using Technology in Physical Education
Assessment and Grading in Physical Education
- December 5 - Albany, NY
- December 6 - Syracuse, NY
- December 7 - Boston, Mass
- December 8 Providence, RI
- December 9 - Long Island, NY
- January 23 - San Jose, CA
- January 24 - Fresno, CA
- January 25 - Sacramento, CA
- January 26 - Seattle, WA
- January 27 - Portland, OR
- February 27 - Milwaukee, WI
- February 28 - Appleton, WI
- March 1 - Cincinnati, OH
- March 2 - St Louis, MO
- March 3 - Kansas City, MO
Conference and Conventions
Resource Corner
If you have a question that you would like to ask Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, go to "Teachers Ask the Secretary" at http://www.ed.gov (select "Teachers") or go to http://www.ed.gov/teachersask.
You will find answers to a wide range of subjects: teacher quality, professional development, state academic standards and more.
In The News
Portable DVD Players
Portable DVD players allow users to watch movies straight from DVD. All portable DVD players work in much the same fashion. The big differences between the units are screen size, overall size and weight, and battery life. The bigger the screen, the heavier the unit and the lower the battery life. The most popular units have either 7" or 9" diagonal color LCD screens. Most screens are in 16:9 format, ideal for watching widescreen movies. Most batteries last 2.5-3 hours on a charge.
Be aware that there is a difference between a portable DVD player and a portable video player. The portable video player have a 20GB+ hard drive and movies are recorded in MPEG-4 format (the visual equivalent of audio MP3 files). You typically get four hours of programming per gigabyte. Picture quality is typically around 300x225 pixels. The challenge with the portable video players, is getting movies onto the portable device - especially with new more strong copy protection.
How To
Digitize Vinyl and Audiocassettes
1. Connect the the record player or cassette player using an audio cable with RCA connectors on one end (for record player/stereo or cassette player/stereo) and rca or mini-stereo plug on the other end.
2. Set your computer to record from sound input (Macintosh) or sound card (Windows).
3. Launch your audio application (e.g., Audiocorder). Set your application to record 44.1KHz, 16-bit stereo sound.
4. Adjust the gain so that the audio level is strong.
5. Click on record in the application and start playing the sound. When the song ends, click on stop. Save the file.
Bonnie's Fitware Inc Grant Program
The next series of grant applications are due:
December 15, 2005 - email app to bmohnsen@pesoftware.com
Software Choices:
- Health Related Fitness
- Volleyball Complete
- Sim Athlete
- Biomechanics Made Easy
- Muscle Flash
- Elementary Physical Ed Dictionary
The application is simple (no more than two pages): Name of person submitting the proposal and email address; Name of school, address, phone number; Name of software (one title per proposal) and platform (Windows or Macintosh); Description of how (specifically) you will use the software; Description of how (specifically) you will determine if the software makes a difference in student learning. Awardees will be expected to write a one page summary describing their use of the software. The write up is due July 30, 2006.
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