Online Conference

The session that I chose was called "Creating a Self Correcting Quiz Using Google Forms".

1) The basic ideas of the session were that they talked about how to make a self correcting quiz by creating a spreadsheet using Google Forms. You first create a quiz that you will give to your students. Once you have typed out all of the questions, you type out formulas so that you can tell what students got what answer right or wrong by typing their names in. You would then go over to the color choices and pick red for wrong and green for right. You would paste the color formula to the cell so that when they answer the question, the color pops up on the answer sheet that you created and they will know if they got the question correct of not.

2) I can use this when I am a teacher by creating short quizzes on Google Forms about different physical education activities and sports. By having them do this online, I will be able to see how they did on the quiz, write their grade down in the grade book, and they will be able to see what questions they got correct and wrong right after they are done.

3)Some pros to this session are that students will be able to see their grade right away, it is nice to see what questions the students got wrong. For instance, if everyone got the same question wrong, this will tell me that I did not explain that well enough and I will not punish them for that. Some cons are that the formulas can be difficult at times. If the students do not have a computer at home or my students are not able to get into the computer lab that could be a problem.

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Reflection on using technology

I could use podcasting to put onto my web page for students to listen to. I could also create a class wiki for my students to go onto to look at homework or to look at lesson plans. My students could create blog pages so that I could see their responses to different questions or to see what they have learned. By using moviemaker, my class could demonstrate different sports to do in a physical education class on their movie. I could create a scavenger hunt for the students to go through to learn more the history or general information about a sport.

There are alot of technologies that I have learned about that I can use in my classes. I have learned alot and I am more comfortable using the computer. I did not know that there were that many different types of technologies out there that teachers could use. I will use a number of these technologies that most physical education classes would never use.

Podcasting

1) Podcasting is the process of using audio files to deliver a message onto a website where people can listen to what you have to say.

2) As a teacher, I could record my voice and put it on my web page. The studnets could go to the page and listen to their homework if they forgot to write it in their planner or were absent.

3) Some pros to podcasting are:You can give students homework to put on to your web page, students can record their voices to see what they have learned, and its a different activity for them to do that is letting them get practice with other technologies.

Some cons to podcasting are:Students could use their phones for non-academic purposes, and students could listen to the podcasts instead of going to class.