SCREENR

1. SCREENR By Jonathan Hanna

2. Aroga • Description: • The company motto is to Live, Learn, See, Communicate • 23 yrs in the running • Strive to meet the needs of Clients • Claim to be Canadas Premier assistive technology retailer through: lifetime tech support, price matching, and extended product warranty

3. Product: World of Sport Examined • This is an interactive computer program which looks at the human body and how it works in sporting actions. For example, you want to know what muscles work in a jump shot. The program will focus on every body system utilized in this action through assignments, questions, and other methods. • Classroom Implementation • Through group work, I will have students analyze a certain action within a sport, lets say a corner kick in soccer. With the program, they will work through the different games, quizzes, questions etc. and then spend one class actually performing the skill. As a way of assessing I would use normative written exam and ask questions related to the skill of corner kicks.

4. Value? • This product would be very valuable in a classroom because it gets the students to focus on how the body is performing these skills, rather than just the quality of the physical skill. I could see this product supporting physical literacy with in PE classrooms of all ages.

5. H.T. Coutts Education Library • Description • This is a primary resource library for the faculties of education & physed and rec. They have extensive quality resources related to different curricular topics • Product • EBSCOhost • Massive search engine that has research categorically organized, and allows the user to specify very particular details in finding sources.

6. Classroom Implementation • Research study on any topic, you must have two resources, and they must be published within the last ten years, and peer reviewed • Value? • To engage students in their research methods, promoting the finding of credible sources in an educational setting.

7. Microsoft Partners in Learning • Description • This is a global support network for teachers. This is a free resource which offers development training, community discussion, free software, tutorials, and lesson plans. There are promotions for being a member as well. • Product • Skype in the classroom • It is Skype, but on a group level. Skype is way to connect with people around the world. There is auditory and visual feed, enabling students to get a great sense of who they are interacting with. Its face to face interaction.

8. Classroom Implementation • With in a PE classroom, 1 day every 2 weeks could be designated to interacting with students around the globe. I would collaborate with teacher first via email and decide on topic or topics for the day and give students time to prepare. • Value • Technology has the potential to keep students motivated in a classroom, this also gives them a great opportunity to experience different educational culture around the globe. I believe that the stakes are higher because they are teaching other people, which keeps the students more engaged, and can take them out of their comfort zones.

9. Online Reference center • Description • This is a digital collection of resources for student, teachers and pre service teachers. Mad possible by a grant-in-aid from alberta education to the alberta library. It provides curriculum aligned resources, and great support inquiry research among other things. • Product • CBC News in Review • Resource that organizes CBC news stories into categories that can be accessed and analyzed to the teachers intended scope.

10. Classroom Implementation • Take a current event in the news and have students review that event. Follow up their review with a new in review on the same topic and generate a guided discussion. • Value? • A great way to learn about major news stories in a very analytical way. Enhances students content knowledge of current world events, and potentially stimulates critical thinking from such events.

11. Adobe • Description • Adobe offers teachers and administrators integrated software, curriculums, and instructional resources as well as certification options and professional development tools. Promote digital literacy, teach essential career skills, and streamline administrative processes (www.adobe.com) • Product • Creative Cloud • Gives students access to all the latest adobe desktop apps. Essentially it is a portfolio that is synced & organized for you across multiple devices.

12. Classroom Implementation • As an ongoing assignment, have students document the different units that we cover in PE. The requirements would be very open, lots of room for creativity… hence the name • Value? • A way to enhance students creativity in how they think about physical education. It also has the potential to increase engagement from students, and create a more mindful atmosphere for PE because they have to reflect on it in their portfolios.