Applications Review

http://fotoflexer.com/

I personally enjoyed this site.  I spent a lot of time checking out everything that you could do with a photo and even created an account.  I liked that you could add stickers and animations and also distort the picture.  I edited a few of my own pictures and saved them.  I would recomment this for teachers to use and also for students.  Not something they would use on a daily basis, but maybe for special projects....upload a family pic or someone that they idolize.  Students could create pictures that they use to put on wiki if they are doing a project.  I think this program allows students to use their creativity and I think they would enjoy that. 

http://www.thinkfree.com/main.jsp

"ThinkFree Mobile allows the viewing, editing , and sharing of documents, anywhere."  This I like a lot.  I cannot open documents up on my phone so this would help me out tremendously!  I am an itinerant so I travel from school to school all day long.  I don't have time to run to my office between schools, so this application would save me some time.  I haven't put this app on my phone yet, but so far reading about it I would recomment it.  It allows you to open documents for free, but you have to pay ($8.70) for the app that supports editing.  ThinkFree Mobile Print ($14.99) is also something that I would be interested in. It allows you to print pictures, documents and web pages from your phone.  There are some mixed reviews for the Mobile Print.  Some gave it 5 stars, some 1.....so may have to do a little more investigating before I decide to put it on my phone.  Definitely worth looking into if you're a teacher on the go.  Especially if you are one of those teachers who works even after the work day is over....that's probably all of us. 

Website

https://sites.google.com/site/adaptedphysicaleducationnlk520/home

I chose to do a teacher page.  I love looking at other teacher pages so I thought it was time to start my own.  I've got a lot more work that I want to do on it....it's taking me some time.  Happy I at least have it started.  When I am satisfied with it I think I will let other teachers and parents know that it exists.  I think adding the links portion is helpful because there is a lot of physical education information out there, but not a lot of adapted physical education news/info.  Excited to start looking for more helpful websites to add.  I added a portion about myself so that parents can get to know me because I usually only see parents once a year at IEP's.

Concept Map

I would have students pair up and give each pair a sport or activity that I would be teaching throughout the year. The students would then research each sport and use concept mapping to give some basic information about the sport...basic skills needed, rules of the game, key terms, whatever they thought was helpful to know about the sport. I would print off all of the concept maps and give each student a handout with all the them in it as a notebook. Students could add to the maps as needed when it came time for that unit.

Screencast

This Screencast is to show students how to set up an email account. This would be done in the computer lab. It is a good first day/weeks of school activity. Students would set up accounts through hotmail. The teacher would hand out everyones email addresses on one sheet after everyone set up an account. Each week the teacher would give each student 2-3 people to write to. You would ask them questions and also respond to the questions being asked to you. This would help classmates get to know each other at the start of the school year.

Google Map Activity

View EDT 5410 Map in a larger map Students would create a map of the route they traveled when going trick or treating. This would be after they already went. They would search for the town or area they went trick or treating in and draw on the map their route. They would also mark a starting and finishing point on the map. Students would have to remember places or landmarks they passed along their route and add them to their map (at least 10). They could add friends houses that they passed, or even add places that gave out the best candy. This would have to be explained the day of or before they actually went trick or treating. Students could also document how far they walked. I just think this is something lower/upper elementary kids would really get into. Who does not LOVE to go trick or treating. This map actually took me a long time to do. Younger students may need a lot of help with this. When I made a mistake it was difficult for me to figure out how to fix it. I ended up doing it several times over. Every time I tried to embed it to my blog, my route was altered and I had to keep going back and fixing it...frustrating.

Podcast Sites

http://autismpodcast.blogspot.com/

This podcast site is all about autism. I listened to a podcast about services for adults with autism. It was about different options that children have once they are out of the school system and also what their options are in the working environment. Helpful website if you have a student with autism in your classroom.  There is also another podcast about using ipads with students with autism that I thought was very interesting. 


  http://www.mich.gov/mde/0,4615,7-140-37818_45256-287807--,00.html

This is Michigan Department of Education’s video podcast page. The one that I listened to was Mike Flanagan talking about how the beginning of every school year is basically a fresh start and how we are continuously trying to improve and become better teachers.

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