My favourite apps & resources for P.E.

Unit 6 Task 2

In this entry I'm going to comment my favourite apps and resources for my Physical Education lessons, from the previous entry of my blog. 

For my P.E. lessons I would choose the second chance of the lessons for print. This lesson is "cooperative games" for grades from 4th to 6th. I like that lesson because it has some kind of games easy to adapt to the aforementioned grades and more. The cooperative games are very common and useful in P.E. So, I think this lesson will be the best to choose.

In the matter of using whiteboards on the P.E. lessons I'm not very convinced of the feasibility of the fully and efectively integration of this tool, in the whole Primary stage. However, I think that the whiteboard is a great resource for the development of the psychomotor activity in the kindergarten stage and maybe in a few moments in the first cycle of Primary. 

My favourite whiteboard tool of the aforementioned is QDPA (Quality Daily Physical Activity. This activity can be used for the daily routine of exercise, it contains a large number of interactive activities that you can choose. With this tool students can choose actions and songs. Is easy to adapt and vary the level according to our aims and studnets.

In the case of P.E. teachers is necessary to get updated frequently in order to avoid the obsolescence. To do that we have different ways, but nowadays the easiest is to keep in touch with publications, not only from the scholars of physical activity, but also from the ideas and innovations from other teachers. In this respect I have chosen a website in which this collaboration is frequent.

My favourite on-line website of publications is PE Central. It is a place in which teachers and even parents share ideas and resources related with the physical education, physical activity and fitness.

The thing that I like most of this site is the large amount of info, ideas and resources. It has different spaces, such as: adapted PE, fitness programs, video library, challenges, shop, professional development and so on. I think that is one resource that should be compulsory for PE teachers.

When we talk about apps and tools for computers, smartphones or tablets, we can find thousands of them. But related with the physical education and activity I think there are much less.

The app that I prefer of the ones mentioned in the previous entry of the blog is Coach's eye.  With this app for tablet, smartphone and even computer. We can record our students performing skills or doing any physical activity and play it in slow motion or backwards. This functions will help us and the students to see what they do well and what they don't, so it will be a great tool for feedback. I think Coach's eye is useful for teachers and coaches, it helps students to see how they perform any skill or exercise.

To sum up, all of these resources are useful in some way or for somebody. But it depends on the aims, needs, students and teacher experience. In the subject of Physical Education, there is nothing fixed and everything depends on the teacher's imagination and aims.

So, the 4 resources that I've chosen are useful each one in a different stage of the compulsory education and for differnt aims.