It's all over

So this will be my last post on this blog. I mean don't get me wrong I have enjoyed creating this blog and learning the different skills it takes to run it, but keeping up a blog is not something that I do. I have a facebook and a myspace and barley do anything with those. There is a chance that I might make a blog for my my classes. I have liked some of the ideas about making a class blog but that's about the only way I think I will ever use this blog again, I'm just not a blogger.

I have really enjoyed this class I have learned a lot about computers stuff that I did not know, and how to make the stuff I did know better I want to thank Professor Sorenson for all of her hard work, and I want to thank my classmates for making this one of my favorite classes.

Reflections

well another semester has come and gone and it has been another good semester and in no particular order here are some things that i have enjoyed this semester:

- living in the apartments instead of the dorms
- not eating in the caf
- family time with my roommates
- my great classes this year
- playing football with some of my best friends in the world
- Preparing for my wedding
- the new friends that i have made
- student teaching at a great elementary school
- the conversation me and my roommates had in the hall that we always laugh about when mention it

The Best Game Ever

i just happen to stumble upon this Japanese game show and thought i would share it

Christmas

i found this video and thought it was funny

Final Project 2.0

Google Earth

Power Point

I posted a project earlier but i did not like it so here is my new one version 2.0.

The project that I decided to do was to show different sports from around the world. I used Google Earth and some of the features that it has and incorporated different technologies into the Google Earth software. This was my first time really working with Google Earth, there was a bit of a learning curve, some of the stuff in Google Earth is not the easiest thing to figure out. I had to do some trial and error test until I figured out what to do. The first thing I did was make place marks for the three countries that I am using, and that is pretty easy. After you make a place mark you can add stuff to the mark. First I added a video of the sport that I wanted to explain. At first I was going to use a PowerPoint to explain the sports a little bit, but I really didn’t like that because it was separate form the Google Earth and it really didn’t flow. So I decided to do some more research and started thinking if I could get the video to work because it was embedded maybe that could work for a PowerPoint. Well after many hours of trying I did not work I could not figure it out, but I did find a Website were you could type in what you wanted and it would turn it into HTML for you, so I was able to add a description to the Google Earth which I like way better. Then I wanted to do something to finish off the work. Google earth has a feature where you can overlay a picture so I decided to put maps of the countries on the map. And for this I used photo bucket to embed the picture into the map. The last thing I did was make the timing right. The place mark and overlay move at different timing so I used a screen shot, to freeze the picture so that both places are at the same spot.

I don’t think I could call myself an expert of Google earth yet, I was just using the basic version you have to pay to use the better version. I think if I spent some more time with Google Earth I could get to use more of the feature. I would really like to use the better versions of Google Earth just to see what the better features are. I think I can add this Google Earth to my above average knowledge list.

I think that a lot of different teachers can use Google Earth as a teaching aid if you spend the time to learn it and put it together it can be a really fun learning tool.

Cool Class

here is a link to part of an article i found about what one school is doing for P.E. They have treadmills hooked up to video games so that the students can race against computer opponents and it keeps tract of there progress, plus all sorts of other neat stuff you should read it.



Whatever Happened to Gym Class?.
Fat Chance
By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Feature

July 2, 2001 -- Like millions of Americans, Ernie Prado and Brittany Keele work out as much as possible to stay in shape. They do so at a high-tech fitness facility that allows them to race stationary bicycles on virtual courses against computer-generated opponents, and keep track of their fitness levels over time using handheld devices.

Prado and Keele don't pay hundreds of dollars each month for membership in this state-of-the-art health center. They pay nothing at all, because the 14-year-old 8th graders are students at West Middle School in Downey, Calif.

The school's Cyberaerobic Center is the brainchild of physical education teacher Dan Latham, who 10 years ago turned a little-used 2,000-foot athletics storage building into an aerobics facility. He has been incorporating computers into the mix ever since, and the center now has 55 fitness machines, six with the "video game" component.

"We needed a way to hook [the students]," Latham tells WebMD. "We were losing them to video games, so I decided to take their world and our world and come up with a happy medium. The kids like it because they can pick different [virtual] courses to ride on with the bikes and different courses to run on with the treadmills. But they have to be active in order for the machines to work."

All 1,200 students at the middle school attend PE classes at the center for at least three weeks during the school year, and they also have access for two hours after school, four days a week. Latham is now trying to start similar aerobics facilities at two Downey high schools, both financed exclusively, like the West Middle School center, through fund-raising events and private contributions.

"It is better than being outside, because there is air conditioning," says Prado, whose goal is to build up his shoulders for football next season. "I live in an apartment building, and the only thing I can do there is ride my bike in a little circle in this tiny parking lot."

"For a lot of kids, this is their extracurricular activity," says Keele, who plays ice hockey. "They can either go home and play video games and get no exercise at all, or they can go to the cyberaerobics lab with their friends and play games and work out."
PE Under Siege

All over the country, teachers like Latham are introducing innovations which are virtually reinventing physical education, while many school administrators and public officials have all but declared war on PE. Fitness classes are disappearing from the nation's public schools at an alarming rate, done in by ever-tightening budgets and time constraints.

Only about half of students in grades K-12 have physical education classes every day, and only 29% of high school students do. And one in four kids have no PE during their school day at all, according to figures from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), the nation's largest professional organization for physical education teachers. In a report released last year, NASPE found that the vast majority of high school students have physical education for only one year between 9th and 12th grade.

LOL

Here is some funny sports quotes i stumbled on

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.
-- Duffy Daugherty

On this team, we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
-- Lou Holtz

If hockey fights were fake, you would see me in more of them.
-- Rod Gilbert

The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract.
-- Spider Lockhart

Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.
-- Shug Jordan

You can observe a lot just by watching.
-- Yogi Berra

They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
-- Lou Holtz

We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. I just can't figure out where else to play!
-- Pat Williams

I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.
-- Source Unknown

The sun doesn't shine on the same dog's butt every day but we sure didn't expect a total eclipse.
-- Steve Sloan

I'd run over my mother to win the Super Bowl.
-- Russ Grimm