How Pinterest Can be Used in a Classroom!

Pinterest is now more than just a website that allows people to look and like pictures. Pinterest can actually be used in the classroom to teach both the students the teachers. In Pinterest, there is links where one can click on and it will take you to a website that shows you how to teach a lesson. I have looked up several lesson plans that deal with Physical Education, and I feel like I can go out and teach a P.E. class. Pinterest also has pictures with step-by-step explanations on how to teach a glass a game and or sport. 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6JTlWQ4TlXBZUh6aVQ2UjU4c0U/edit

The link above is a link to a activity that I created about stress relief. 

I completed the assignment by going to Google and searched for information about stress. I researched what stress is, how to relief stress, and how to reduce stress in your everyday life. I learned that stress is actually really bad for you. Also, I learned that sleeping a lot and exercising will help rid stress that is in your life.

Here is when I did the assignment:

STEP ONE: Find a online search engine

In this step I chose Google for my search engine.

STEP TWO: Put the founded information into a PowerPoint

In this step, I looked up what stress is all about. And with my findings, I created a PowerPoint presentation and put the information into it.

STEP THREE: Go back to the search engine and research ways to reduce stress

This step I Googled how to reduce stress and then went back to my PowerPoint and inserted the information that I found.

STEP FOUR: After the student finds all of their information, the student will get in front of the class and then present their PowerPoint.

My Critique on Web 2.0

1. Animoto- http://animoto.com

Animoto is a website that you can use on your own personal computer to make and create professional quality videos. This website is budget friendly, fun to use, and makes it all easier to do and understand. I would use this in my classroom as often as possible! I would have my kids making videos to post about their lives and what they think they can do in Physical Education to make them get in better shape. I would also use it in my classroom to help the kids a more broad view of technology.

      2. iNetWord- http://www.inetword.com/

iNetWord is a website to where anyone can create documents just like how word does but better. This website uses a autosave technology so that you can never overwrite a saved document. iNetWord allows you to create boarders and backgrounds into your document as well. In my classroom I will use this website over Word because the students can come up and create better and more interesting documents. Also, I will use  iNetWords because the class will be able to share their documents with each other.

      3.FindHow- http://www.findhow.com/

FindHow is a search engine that allows anyone to search how to do pretty much anything that they want.This website is fun because, it teaches and shows you how to do things on your own so that you can feel happy about something. I would use this in my classroom by making the kids go to FindHow and looking up how to build something and build it for class. I will also let the kids use FindHow to teach and show them how to properly workout on their own.

      4. Silverback- http://www.silverbackapp.com/

The only downfall that I found with Silverback is that it is not free, but it does come with a free 30 day trial. Silverback allows one to capture their screen activity, video the users reactions, and record the users voice. Silverback also allows the user to add chapter markers where ever and when ever needed. I would use this in my class to help me monitor the kids use on computers. I will also use it so that if the kids are watching a workout video that they can pause, record, screenshot and whatever else all by using their voice.

      5.Authorstream- http://www.authorstream.com/

Authorstream is a website which one can present and share their PowerPoint presentations with people across the world. With this website you can post your PowerPoint directly to YouTube so that millions of people can view it. Authorstream allows you to have meetings online with others and it is able to be posted to any website. I would use this in my classroom to have the children create PowerPoint presentations on how to properly workout. Authorstream will also be used in the class to meet on off days online to discuss materials about the class.

     6. SoundCloud- http://soundcloud.com/

SoundCloud is a great free website that allows you to make your sounds look and sound better. With SoundCloud you can post freely on any website. You can create a sound, transfer it to SoundCloud, make it look and sound better, and from there you can post it to FasceBook so the whole world can see or you can make it private where only a select few can listen to it. In my classroom I would use SoundCloud to make the kids create lecture about working out and posting them for others to hear.

      7. Skitch- http://plasq.com/skitch

Skitch is a free website that allows you to post a picture to it and edit it to make it look like a comic book. Skitch allows you to crop, add text, resize, change color, and anything else that you can think of to a photo. The best part about Skitch, you do not have to save. All you do is post your picture, do your editings and then drag it to where ever you need it to be. I would use this in my class to make the kids create a comic about Physical Education.

      8. Word It Out- http://worditout.com/http://worditout.com/

Word It Out is a word cloud generator that gives you full control of your words. It is free and there is no sign up for it. With Word It Out you can create sentences, documents, tables and many more. You have the full right to create and remove words, and make some words more important than other ones. I think this will be a good website to use in class to help the children learn how to create documents better and more efficient.

      9. Smories-http://www.smories.com/

  

Smories is a free online news site that is for kids by kids. On this site there is kids who read stories for other kids to listen to. It is a great website for child story writers to post on to help get published. I would use this site for the kids in my class to get on and listen to other kids stories about working out. I will also make my kids create a story on Smories about working out.

      10. Student Publishing- http://www.studentpublishing.com/

Student Publishing is a website where students can log onto and create their own paper back and or hard back books. Everything that the students makes will be professionally typed and created to their standards. Children can make a book for themselves, their parent, grandparents, friends, and even one for the class to read. I would use this website to allow my kids to come up and create a book to help other kids to become more physical fit. I would also use it because children listen to their peers more, and so if one of their peers has a book that they have written, they might would read it and listen to them better.

     

Things that coaches never say

Being an athlete is pretty fun at times. The things that make it not so fun is the coaches. Student-athletes can go out every day and bust their tails and still not feel good about anything. It is hard when you do everything that you think is right and do it with one hundred percent effort, and you have your coach chewing you out because you are not "good" enough. I have always wondered: what is "good" enough to them? I will probably never know the answer to that question, but I do know what not to say to your players. I have played sports for ten years now and I have never heard a coach tell his player(s) that they did a great job, or even motivate them in a positive way at all. I guess coaches think they always have to be negative towards people to "light their fires." I have created a list of things that a couch should never say to their athletes. With this list I hope to shine some light to prove to people that playing sports is not as easy as it may seem.

1. "You suck!"
2. "You're the worse athlete I have ever seen."
3. "You're too fat to play football."
4. "You all are softer than baby poop."
5. "You are not getting any better."
6. "You'll never play doing it like that."
7. "If you ever get to play (which I doubt) you will get someone hurt."
8. "Why are you even here still?"
9. "I will beat your brains in with my fist if you mess up again."
10. "I haven't even thought of you as a usable player."
11. "Sometimes catching my attention is more important than an injury if you want to play."
12. "I am giving up on you."

The list above is not things I have heard personally, just things that coaches should never say. For those who read this and are thinking about being a coach, please use better ways to motivate and "light the fires" of your athletes.