NZPETeacher videocasts

 

Over the next week or so I will be launching a regular videocast. It is something I have considered for a while now and I have been encouraged by the work @Vgoodyear has been doing over at PE & Sport Vlog (check out some of her cool videos!).

The videos will be ramblings with an educational and technology twist to them, and maybe a little bit of PE and Health thrown in for good luck. I am hoping to crank out a new video each month but would prefer to have them out sooner! There will be opportunity to engage with a fantastic educators as the videocasts progress as well.

Anyway, enough chit chat – I need to get the first video sorted. IF you are keep to check it out, make sure you head on over to my YouTube page and subscribe.

International Podcast Day

With all this lovely weather in little old NZ, many of you might have missed it – Today was International Podcast Day! What is IPD you might ask? International Podcast Day is dedicated to promoting podcasting worldwide through education and public engagement.

Earlier today Andrew Milne (@carmelhealth) from Illinois (I am a huge Pippen fan if you are reading this Andrew!) got in touch to let me know he had given his latest episode a bit of international flair, with a number of students representing New Zealand! I have to say, the kiwis really demonstrated an insightful and strong understanding of what issues not only affect our students, but those around the world as well.

Click through to check out his podcast and make sure you subscribe of you like what you hear!

Session plan for concurrent session 3 – ACHPER Tasmania State Conference 2015

Hi delegates – for those of you attending my concurrent session this afternoon, please access the session overview / plan at the following link, or scan the following QR code:

Session overview

 

 

Live stream of secondary keynote @ ACHPER Tasmania State conference

Kia ora teachers! Tomorrow I will be presenting the secondary keynote at the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. The live stream can be accessed below and is set to start at 12:30pm NZT.

My takeaways from Leading a Digital School conference in Melbourne

In the past week I had the pleasure of attending the Leading a Digital School conference in Melbourne, Australia. Not only was it my first international conference, it was also my first taste of Melbourne! I found Melbourne to be a beautiful city that was welcoming to tourists with a city that was easily accessible and affordable.

Three takeaways from Interface Xpo in Christchurch today

Was fortunate enough to be away from the terrible Wellington weather today and flew down to Christchurch for the first Interface Xpo. Highlights of the day included the beautiful sun Christchurch put on for us, and also the opportunity to observe some of the ongoing rebuild.

Of course there was a conference to attend as well and below you will find my three best takeaways I found today after the break:

My presentation from Future Learning Environments conference

The following link will take you to a video of my recent presentation on flipped learning. Unfortunately I couldn’t embed the video, but the link should take you through to the video hosted by ETV.

 

 

Slides from my presentation at Future Learning Environments Conference

Really enjoyed having the opportunity to speak about flipped learning at the Future Learning Environments conference this morning. It was my first time presenting and I received a lot of positive feedback, both around the delivery of my presentation and the potential of the flipped learning environment.

Exciting to hear others trying to flip their classrooms, both in secondary and tertiary level.

Other presentations that I enjoyed listening to were the MOOC revolution by Dennis Viehland and also hearing about the fantastic physical environments that have been developed at Manakau Institute of Technology and Albany Senior High School.

Looking forward to stepping beyond my comfort zone in future conferences if I get the chance.

Future Learning Environments Conference

On July 29th – 30th, the Future Learning Environments conference will be taking place in Auckland, NZ.

The Future Learning Environments conference brings together industry leaders along with supporting industrial bodies and communities within the education sector under one roof to discuss how infrastructure, pedagogy and technology can be combined to deliver enhanced student outcomes.

I have been asked to present my take on Flipped Learning in the classroom and how it has impacted student learning in Physical Education and Health.

More information about the conference can be found here, otherwise you can download the conference brochure.

If any of you are planning on attending, please come up and say hello!

Failed Newton’s law of Inertia experiment – or was it??

After a flipped video looking at inertia, I decided to get the class to participate in a small experiment testing Newton’s first law. In an ideal world, I wanted the plate to be whipped away in a straight line. This would have demonstrated that with no other external force acting upon the egg (besides gravity), the egg would drop into the cup.

As you can see in the video, the student pulled the plate on an angle resulting in the egg missing the cup!! (My wife after viewing the video said to me “Fail sir!). But with a little bit of questioning, the students established that when the plate was pulled on an angle, it caused the cardboard roll to exert an external force onto the egg, changing it’s downward path and causing it to miss the cup. Not really a fail after all!