I have been teaching for 17 years. I have been the Middle School Coordinator at Port Broughton Area School in South Australia and am now the Curriculum Coordinator at the school. I am a HPE teacher but also get to teach English and SOSE at different times. I also have an interest in incorporating IT into how I teach the curriculum.
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Time Motion app for Ipad2
Today in my 8/9 PE class I used the Time Motion app to collect data on student movement during their volleyball games. The time motion app allows you to record (for a single student) the % of time spent standing, walking, jogging, fast running and sprinting. Normally you get the data and then email it but as there is no WiFi in our gym I copied the data from the Ipad2 against the students name on a piece of paper which was fairly painless. Each student that I observed was watched for 2 minutes. It then took ten minutes to enter that data on a spreadsheet and produce a graph that showed my classes movement intensities. Today was just an experiment but in the future this data will be excellent for students to analyse and make links between those who are successfull in games/sports and the amount of effort (movement) they put in while older students can look at which energy systems are dominant during a particular sport based on movement intensity. Such a simple app providing powerful data!
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ipad2,
movement,
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Absolutely brilliant. I have been trying to quantify 'movement' with pedometers/heart rate monitors but this sounds great. S's are always interested to learn how different activities promote differing amounts of movement.
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