Family Buy In PE

Beltsville PE uses blogs to communicate with students and parents homework, special dates and even assignments for missed classes. In Prince George's County there are over 25 SUNY Cortland PE alumni - so I'll follow up with them to see if any of this staff did.

I asked them " On a scale of 1-10, how important is it for you to intereact/communicate/educate the parents/guardians & advocating HQPE" and they answered:

"@syangman 10! Getting the family to buy in is a huge step toward creating physically competent and active, healthy kids!"

https://twitter.com/#!/BeltsvillePE/status/167987939052232704

Check them out at:
http://beltsvillepe.blogspot.com/


How will you use technology to aid you in "creating physically competent and active, healthy kids!"


Remember that using tech is part of the Healthy New Year Resolution Video Assignment - which is due Feb. 16th.
201 - 255  - 470


Video Contest page - Go Cortland PE!

BlogLevel & TweetLevel

What's your TweetLevel & BlogLevel? Using Edelman's twitter and blog assessment tools here are my stats.

Noun Project = Universal Symbols

Check out the Noun Project free clip art that can be used for your blogs or posters.  All of the images are either public domain images or Creative Commons licensed images. Public domain images can be used without attribution but Creative Commons licensed ones need attribution.

Via Free Tech for Teachers: Noun Project - Free Clip Art of Universal Symbols:

Spice Up Your Blogs

Image via CrunchBaseIf you want to add some Creative Commons content including photos and videos as well as add associated links to the content you are writing, you have to try Zemanta - a simple browser plug-in/add-on/extension. See all browsers add-ons here. Simple and effective at getting your readers to pay more attention to what you're writing.

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Tal.ki - Quickly Add a Forum to Your Blog

From Free Technology for TeachersTal.ki - Quickly Add a Forum to Your Blog

Earlier this week I presented Lefora as a free alternative to Ning for creating your own social network. Lefora allows anyone to create a free message board forum complete with social networking profiles. Yesterday, the folks behind Lefora launched Tal.ki. Tal.ki allows you to create a discussion forum and embed it into your blog or website in seconds.

To add a discussion forum to your blog or website simply go to Tal.ki, copy the embed code and paste it into the code of your blog or website. You do not have to create an account to use Tal.ki nor do visitors to your embedded forum have to create a Tal.ki account. Users of Tal.ki login using their Facebook, Google, Yahoo, or Twitter accounts.

Applications for EducationTal.ki provides a great way to add a discussion forum to your classroom blog or website. Use Tal.ki to provide your students with a place to ask you questions. Or use Tal.ki as a place for students to ask each other homework help questions, essentially turning your forum into a student-run homework help center.

If you're using Blogger to host your classroom blog, the easiest way to embed a forum is to add a new page and embed the Tal.ki code into that page. That way your forum stands alone as an element of your blog.