Abby+Peachey

http://peandhealth.wikispaces.com/Physical+Education

This is the first PE wiki that I was able to find that had SOME useful information. It doesn't seem like Wiki's are used often by P.E. teachers....this may be because we are never able to bring our students around a computer because the time that we have with them is so short, yet valuable, movement in the gym is the only option we have!

http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/Education+Blogs+by+Discipline

I really liked this wiki. It has A LOT of links for a variety of different teachers in different fields. This site could be useful to many!

I could create a wiki for my students that could direct them to sites with exercise videos, ideas of games and activities to participate in with friends to burn some calories and maybe even some sites on healthy eating...or links to "what to eat and what not to eat" sites!

http://iheartphysed.wikispaces.com/

Web 2.0 Tools I'd use in the classroom:

[] Blabberize is a cool site that lets you put voice to pretty much anything. I love the lama in the beginning and I think that my younger students would immediately be pulled into this!

I would absolutely use this in the classroom if I could find a way to show it to the entire class when in the gym. I would use this for my younger K-1 students. They would absolutely LOVE listening to directions from a donkey, duck, dog etc. I think that they would listen very carefully and follow directions. I love to goof around just about as much as the kids so I love the idea of this for directions etc. [] Slideshare is a site that you can use to create something almost like a powerpoint. It also has awesome slides and presentations already made that you could easily use in the classroom!

I would use this to show students some valuable information prior to the beginning of a unit etc.

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Voice thread is a really neat place where you can go and put your voice to pictures that you upload (very easily). These pictures can be fun pictures or they could be pictures showing a movement or animal etc. Once the picture is uploaded, you can comment on the voice thread and allow others to comment on it, maybe telling a story or saying what the movement or animal is, maybe what the movement is used for or what the animal eats. etc.

I really like the voicethread that I created in class. I could find numerous ways to incorporate this into my phys ed classes, especially with my older kids. I am sure that I could talk to the computer teacher and she would allow them the last few mintues of class, or when they had free time, to comment on my voice threads.

[|www.wordle.net]

Wordle is a site where you create posters with different words. These words can be anything that you are maybe covering in class or just fun words. Once you type the words in, you can create a neat poster that arranges everything you wrote in a fun design. The words can go all different directions, different shapes and they can vary in color.

I LOVE wordle's. This is my new sick addiction for gifts for friends having babies and or getting married. I would also use Wordles in the classroom however. I could make a wordle for different sports, different units, different athletic players etc and post them all over the gym. These would not only decorate the gym but allow the students something to look at and possible figure out what it stood for or what the meaning behind it was. Students could also get into making their own!!
 * I would make my wordle's larger so they would become large posters by putting them in the poster machine that we have at school. All of the words would come out the same color but it would still give the same effect and I think the students would really like it!**