My Teaching Inspiration
Next week my Mum will be retiring from teaching. She has been providing primary students their education for over 30 years. That’s around 1000 students she has inspired over the years to become...
View ArticleGoal setting for 2014 (the #pegeek way)
I wanted to set some personal and professional goals for the year ahead but was wary of listing them with all good intentions only to not revisit them. Using google calender and a google spreadsheet,...
View Article#Sportfolio Evernote Experiment update – Going WITH paper!
Last year I wrote about how I was attempting to use Evernote and iPods to create digital sportfolios in PE. I put a lot of hours and effort into this Evernote experiment but a the end of the day, it...
View ArticleMy ‘Twitter for PE-PD’ workflow using ‘Pocket’ and ‘Evernote’ #pechat
The #PEchat this week touched on how #physed teachers are using social media for personalised professional development. Id like to quickly share my simple workflow to funnel the mass of information on...
View ArticlePresenting #GAFE to staff using #gforms as the hook!
I was asked to present some professional development to staff on how we as a PE department were using Google apps. The challenge was to make it relevant, hands on and appear accessible and interesting....
View Article18 ways to use Google forms and sheets in #Physed (including examples)
Google Apps For Education are an amazing suite of apps specifically catered for schools and students. Part of this suite are google forms, which allow a very quick and organised way to collect any sort...
View ArticleGamifying sex education
In an attempt to create a rather bland lesson into an interactive and engaging one, last week I decided to try and ‘gamify’ my reproductive organs introductory lesson. Overall the students seemed to be...
View ArticleGamifying 7-min-run using google sheets
Most of my year 10 boys thrive on competition. In any context throughout the year they are almost always engaged if they have someone they need to out-shoot, out-run or out-hit which I knew I had to...
View ArticleInternational classroom engagement via the #7minrunchallenge
After completing a night run using the nike+ app, I received notifications on my phone shortly after finishing, letting me know I had run my fastest km, my furthest run and how far I’d run that week....
View ArticleOUTDOOR ED: Using feedback to enhance learning
Originally posted on Aim High Jump Often: I’ve been reflecting a bit on my teaching recently as 12 year comes close to a close. I’ve had the same ‘group’ of students since year 10 outdoor ed and they...
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