KIN 710 on youtube

The quality of the videos varies. Some are informative while some are visually grainy. I don't like the way that the feed is slow and often the video needs to pause while the feed catches up. I guess you can go to another tab and wait until the video is all cued up, before you go back to watch it. This site is such a great resource for the P.E. classes that I teach. For short videos of sportstacking (cupstacking) championships, this is a great resource to inspire students. For instructing too, there are unlimited choices. For short videos on bike safety, there are some worthy choices. I am not limited anymore to the choices that our district video lending library carries. I chose a video entitled "Top 6 Stretching exercises" as one that I would mention in my blog. It is an advanced lesson in stretching done in a professional way. It may be more for middle school or high school. There are several others which give good information on stretching from various viewpoints and for specific sports.

KIN 710 on Technorati

Technorati is a nice resourse for blog information. When using the work "kinesiology," there are several videos that are titled "applied kinesiolgy" which have little to do with the kinesiology that we are familiar with. Probably, I would go to different sites to search for specific videos (youtube)or for photos (flckr) instead of using Technorati. For blogs though, it works well.

KIN 710 on del.icio.us

There is a lot to like with this site. Just having a website of favorite bookmarks is nice since bookmarking on every computer I use gets old. Taking the next step of creating categories using tags produces an amazing tool for organizing sites. Teachers will be able to go from topic to topic and be able to find sites for that subject immediately. I get tired of scrolling my long list of favorites. You can create categories as broad or as narrow as is useful. Students can add sites that they are using to create a resourse of sites that a whole class can use in research and discussion for more information. In planning my curriculum, I can use del.icio.us as a way of finding specific sites quickly for a particular activity. For instance, there are many websites of teachers who have written about specific games, or certain lesson plans, or some other specific pieces of information. These would be easily found when researched under the specific tag of interest. This site has lots of potential for me to grow into.

KIN 710 on Web 2.0

Gee what a great resource. There are several categories that I use regularly like the photos and real estate (Zillow is great to see house values), google maps. The categories that I don't and the areas that I know nothing about.....this is where the value of this site comes in. What is striking is how many sites that are listed here that we have used already just in this class.

KIN 710 on Google Doc

Gosh, what a great setup! It can be really convienient to travel and save documents on-line instead of carrying around the thumb drive. Since it is all google-based it works seemlessly within that system and all that it offers.... lots more than e-mail and a data search resource. The spreadsheet could be used as tool for planning and organizing when tranfered with the url to another site.

some funny stuff from my elementary school

Seen on the wall in the boy's restroom: "k-c-u-f." I told the reading specialist that he let one of the dyslexic students fall through the cracks.

I saw the elderly custodian one morning and lamented that I had forgotten my coffee thermos. He mumbled back showing all gum "that's nothing...I forgot to put in my teeth this morning.

Kelsey, a fourth grader, finally rode the unicycle across the gym floor after months of practice. She happened to be wearing a dress that day. She considered that it was her lucky dress. After that day, she would always wear that same dress when she knew it was unicycle riding day.

Boy to teacher during a "sex health class:" Does a boy have to have a resurection to have sex? (He comes from a Catholic family)

KIN 710 post on RSS feeds

This is what I need ...one place that I can go to get informed. I like the idea of having the information come to one site instead having to head to all those sites myself. Setting up the bloglines site was easy initially but it will take some time to figure out how I want to tailor the site and exactly how I want to use it. Of course it needs to be a daily habit to use the site if it really to do what it is designed to do. I still love reading the daily newspaper but as of early June, we are dropping the subscription. I will start getting my info totally online and this site will be the place to start.