30 boxes is a simplified online organization app that allows users to stay organized and up to date with daily activities. I tried this app and personally this app is one of the best calendar apps I have tried. One of the feature qualities of this app is its sharing capabilities. It allows you to share your daily activities with desired individuals, from family, colleagues, to students. This app adds lots of structure to any aspect of anyone’s life and can benefit teachers and student by making sure they both know what to expect for the upcoming calendar days. Therefore anxiety of the unknowing and unpreparedness is taken out of the equation giving Teacher and student alike a greater chance of success and harmony inside the classroom.  I would strongly suggest this site to all of my colleagues, and use this as a required app for my class to benefit from.

     Zoho Writer in the simplest explanation is an app that allows a group of individuals to complete a task as one without actually being in the vicinity of one another.  This app in my opinion has limitless capabilities when it comes to team building.  Zoho allows users to send any type of files needed to group members without leaving the actual site of assignment, therefore making it a very fluent and easy transition.  Zoho has many beneficial features; one of my favorites is its task assigning features. This allows group leaders to assign parts of group assignments to each individual for them to complete, while being able to check each individual’s progress. Therefore making working in groups more effective and time saving.  I must say technology is great; zoho totally eliminates the long drives to group meeting locations, and makes it easy on adults with children. 

    Pandora, what would I do without this radio site.  Pandora is really easy to navigate through and if you love music like I do, I strongly suggest downloading this app for daily relaxation, motivation and workout music. It is a fact that music affects the overall feeling of an individual. Depending on what kind of music you listen to, your mood can be high or it can go very low.  Luckily Pandora allows you to pick the genre all the way to the artist you want to listen to, so the music that makes you happy is just a click away at all times. Pandora allows you to create a profile that remembers the genre of music you enjoy. Therefore you don’t have to start all over when it comes to finding music.  I found this to be very important when teaching dance class to students.  I was able to go through my profile for specific genre of music for each individual style of my dance classes.  If you are a fitness junky who loves to run in the early morning and didn’t have time to make yourself a mix on your smartphone or other electronic device, don’t worry because Pandora has you covered.  Just type in the genre or name of your favorite artist and enjoy music streamed into your electronic device throughout your entire jog or entire day. Pandora is a great app overall and I strongly recommend to all of my music lovers.

This is a hip hop video of a few of my friend and I dancing. I used this video for instruction. Some of my students would stop and or laugh when ever they would make a mistake in a dance combination. During this dance i made a mistake and i asked the students to find that error. Most of them couldn't find it because I continued to perform as if nothing happened. Teachable moment.

The purpose of this class activity is to engage the students through creative writing and movements. The students created an "I Am" poem and created movements that represented their poem.

I found “photo fun” assignment very interesting. I enjoyed taking my photo and making it into something amazing using the special effects on the website http://funphotobox.com/ .  Prior to this course, I seen a few of my Facebook associates use special effects on some of their photos and I thought they had a special program on their computer in order to create these photos. Now I’m aware of how to create interesting photos. The course “Technology in kinesiology” has allowed me to think differently about my approach to incorporating technology in physical education. One of the things I would definitely incorporate into my lessons is the fan page on Facebook. I found the Facebook fan page valuable because it allows my students to add me as a friend (without adding them to my personal page) and utilize the fan page as a format to contact me, post assignments, build a community of learners, and discussion forums.  I will definitely utilize Facebook fan page  in the future. I also enjoy the weebly website creation page. Its easy to use and interesting to view other weebly member pages as a spectator. I enjoy looking at my classmates pages and viewing their thoughts on various topics and I'm sure I can use this site to assist in my lessons in the future.

Prior to this course I seen podcasting on my iTunes page and I always wondered “what is podcasting?” Reading the following articles; “getting their iLessons”,” History to go”, and “using podcast as audio learning objects”  I learned the definition of  podcasting and how they can be utilized in education.  When I was younger my mom was in nursing school. I remember seeing her listening to her instructor’s lectures via a tape recorder. Even though I was younger, I felt this was an awesome idea because the student could always listen to the lecture as many times as they needed in order to retain the information.  As technology enhances, podcasting is virtually a tape recorder but instead of a tape recorder we use digital files. Pod casting can be beneficial in education because it allows students to have audio access to lectures. This course has exposed me to various technologies that can be used in education and the importance of implementing them into our lesson plans. We are in a time where students are technology savvy and implementing technology tools will help keep them engaged in the lesson.  

Annually I organize a family athletic day.  Originally we would just have family game night and everyone would come to my home and play every game you can think of. Our family is so competitive we would often have discussions on who would win if we played this sport or that sport. So one year I organized family athletic day and everyone had a ball, from the oldest participant age 59 to the youngest participant age 4. Family and friends enjoyed good ol wholesome fun with family while improving physical fitness and bounding with family members. So I decided to make a Facebook fan page for my annual family athletic day, where people can post their fitness progress approaching the big day.
click on the Facebook link above to connect to the page. I also pasted the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/AnnualFamilyAthleticDay

I share many sentiments with the article “Always On”. I feel our technology is a gift and a curse. Because information is so easily accessible students don’t feel the need to retain the information for themselves, because they can always Google it. In the article “social networking in undergraduate education” spoke about the benefits of utilizing technology in education but “Always On” mentions the pros and cons of social networks. The article mentioned "While most of the survey participants see this as mostly positive, some said they are already witnessing deficiencies in young peoples’ abilities to focus their attention, be patient and think deeply. Some experts expressed concerns that trends are leading to a future in which most people become shallow consumers of information, endangering society." I agree with this statement. Because technology has pros and cons, technology should be used in moderation. There should be a limit on how much internet access should be used daily to keep students connected and engaged in what’s happening in front of them versus looking for something else to occupy their brains when the current topic has gotten dull. Moderation is the key to keeping technology relevant and beneficial in education.

The research in the article was very enlightening. Facebook is #1 out of the top 10 social networks. The article spoke about Facebook being used for chat rooms, discussion forums, blogs, wikis and building learning communities. As a dance educator, I’ve used YouTube as a learning tool in my class. I utilized YouTube in 2 ways; one was to have students search various forms of dance genres and discuss their results in class. The other way I would utilize YouTube is by recording students dance combinations so they can use it as a reference to study the dance combination and I would also post their performances. The students enjoyed seeing their performances on YouTube. They would share the site page with parents and friends so they can also see their progress in the class. This helped build our learning community because the students had something in common, they were all involved in dancing in the video and their families were also able to experience the learning community via watching them perform together on the YouTube page. The pages was beneficial to me because I was able to show my progress as an educator and I can always go back and review lessons, reflect on things I should keep and things I should change in a lesson and/or dance composition. To view my class YouTube page click on the YouTube tab above.

I use Instagram as my photo sharing site. I enjoy showing my life experiences through pictures. It also helps me to reflect on my past experiences via the pictures I posted in the past.

The picture I'm sharing with you guys is of an Ex WNBA star Lisa Willis she came to our school for career day. She totally kept it real with the students. She let them know how hard she worked to maintain her status and ranking in the nation as a basketball player. The students enjoyed her story and the boys wanted to challenge her.


http://instagram.com/p/WxSOmnwUKC/

At first, linking my page to a RSS was a little difficult . I used Google reader originally. Once i didn't see the links I followed appear on the Google reader I started subscribing to various RSS via yahoo. I noticed it was much easier to use RSS when i used yahoo as a reader.  Once I got the hang of using the reader I subscribed to my WordPress blog page, my Weeble page, and CNN.  I subscribed to my WordPress and Weeble page because i want to keep up with the comments. I subscribed to CNN