Start of a new exciting year!

Wow, after a wonderful summer and 2 weeks of summer camps at BBIS we are now again in full swing. Seeing all colleagues was great and as a department we have had our first meeting to set goals for the year.

We will continue our iPod Touch project that we started last year and since last year we have purchased a lot to make a real impact ths year.
- 21 iPod Touches
- 2 Ipad's
- 1 MacBook-pro
- 1 Charger/sync case for 20 iPod's

Our PE staff is dead keen to get started with this project and we have 2 new, innovative, energetic and passionate ICT inclusion specialists on board as well. Our sports hall is wireless and so.............. we are good to go and ready to put this into practice.

From last year we know that using video for analyzing and giving feedback is a powerful educational tool. Students enjoyed working like this. Our Feed-pro movies (see earlier blogs) are very popular with students and teachers (check ItunesU for 21 instructional video's and vodcasts on rules in Badminton)

This week we have been getting our IT tools ready and have been discussing and researching
e-(s)portfolios options. What will we use? ,Google+, Tumblr, Facebook, Posterous etc etc? Not sure yet and any advise is welcome.

Here the lists of apps that we will be set up on the iPod Touches to start with:

1)      Red laser

2)      Cricket Coach

3)      Drop Box

4)      Translate app

5)      BT Free

6)      Runkeeper

7)      Heart Rate

8)      BMI calculator

9)      Burst Mode

10)   Fitness pro

11)   Body fitness

12)   First aid white cross

13)   Step test

14)   12 minute run test

15)   easy tag

16)   time motion

17)   context log

In my next blog I will give feedback on practicalities of how our project is working and I am 100% sure our PE department will have faced some challenges, solved some challenges and have come -up with new challenges.

Cool and exciting times!

Joost