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No Excuses! - A Documentary about Quality Physical Education

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QUALITY PHYSICAL EDUCATION ADVOCACY

• ​The Importance of Physical Education​​
• What Does Quality Physical Education Look Like?

• ​​​​​​Advocacy Resources and Toolkits
• ​​Pledge your Support for Quality Physical Education

EFFECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES

• Teaching Strategies
• Planning
• Assessment
• Class Management

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• General Teaching Strategies
• Teaching Strategies for English Language Learners
• ​Adapted Physical Education Resources​
• Social Justice and Diversity
• Facilitating Discussions and Debriefs

• ​​​Examples of Cross Disciplinary Activities
• ​Growth Mindset and Multiple Intelligences​​​
• How to Engage Families in Your Curriculum​
• Advice for New Teachers
• Miscellaneous Articles and Videos​

• Planning Physical Education Units​
• Domains of Learning and Writing Learning Objectives

• ​​Instructional Models in Physical Education
• Teaching Styles in Physical Education​​​

• Assessment in Physical Education
• ​Rubric Guidelines and Examples

• ​Grading in Physical Education
• Fitnessgram Guidelines and Resources

• Class Management Guidelines​
• ​Tools for Assessing Behavior​

• ​Resources for Building Character and Conflict Resolution​
  
• ​Strategies for Forming Groups​
  

TEACHER RESOURCES

• Teacher Resources
• Fitness
• Instructional Videos
• Professional Development
• Technology

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• Physical Education Related Organizations
• Resources for Physical Education Lessons
• ​​​Safety Related Resources
• Resources for Grants and Fundraising​​

• ​​Resources for Finding and Landing Jobs​
• ​​Resources for Physical Education DIY and Hacks​​
• Physical Education Related National Observances​​
• ​​​The Importance of Recess, Play, and Active Classrooms​​

• Examples of Fitness Activities
• ​​​​Strategies for Activity Promotion and Adherence​

• Resources for Stress Management​
• Online Resources for Health, Fitness, and Nutrition

• Icebreakers, Teambuilding, and Conflict Resolution

• Dance - Overview and Resources
• Dance - Folk and Line
• Dance - POCO LOCOs
• Dance - Ballroom and Social Dance
• Dance - Additional Youtube Playlists

• Information and Resources for Professional Development​
• ​Social Media Resources for Physical Educators​​

• ​Teaching Evaluation Forms for Physical Educators​

• ​Technology Guides for Physical Education
• Apps for Physical Education
• Online Technology Resources
• ​Projector Uses in Physical Education

• ​Virtual Reality in Physical Education
• 360 Degree Photos and Videos in Physical Education
• Augmented Reality and QR Codes in Physical Education

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Online Technology Resources

• Related Pages

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• ​​Technology Guides for Physical Education
• Apps for Physical Education
• ​Projector Uses in Physical Education

• ​Virtual Reality in Physical Education
• 360 Degree Photos and Videos in Physical Education
• Augmented Reality and QR Codes in Physical Education​

 

Class and team management

Broadcasting Sporting Events
Class Badges and Events:
Class Management:
Event Scheduler:
Team Management:
Safe Texting:
Tournament Creator:
​Volunteer and Group Management:

High School Sports Network
ClassBadges, Class Dojo, and ForAllRubrics (example)
​EasyClass, Edmodo, Google for Education, JumpRope, ​LearnBoost, and Planboard
Sched
Team Cowboy and TeamSnap
Bloomz, Class Messenger, ClassTag, and Remind
Challonge! and ​Print Your Brackets
ClassTag, VolunteerSpot, and ​SignUpGenious

Creative Visuals

Animated Human Body:
Comic Makers:
Card Makers:
Fake Text Conversations:
Flyer and Newletter Makers:
Infographic Makers:
Online White Boards:
Play Makers:
Printing Posters using Regular Paper:
School Map:
Word Clouds:

Pivot Animator
ComicLife, Fotojet, and ​ToonDoo (physical education examples)
Big Huge Labs 1​, Big Huge Labs 2, MTG Cardsmith, and ​Trading Card Creator
iFake Text Message
Canva (physed article), FlashIssue, and ​Smore (example newsletter)
Easelly, Infogr.am, PiktoChart, and ​ThingLink
A Web Whiteboard, ClassroomScreen, Explain Everything, and ​PixiClip
Playspedia and ​Share the Play
BlockPosters (Example 1​, Example 2, Example 3, and Example 4)
Google Earth (PE example)
HTML5 Word Cloud, Tagul, Tagxedo, and ​Wordle

presentations and Collaboration

Peer Feedback:
Polls and Surveys:
PowerPoint Alternatives:
Project Management:
Scheduling Meetings:
Screen Casting/Sharing:
Video Conferencing:

Peergrade
Acquainted, KwikSurveys, PollSnack, and ​SurveyMonkey
Emaze, ​My Simple Show, PowToon, Prezi, Slidebean, and ​Visme
Empatico, Freedcamp, Todoist, and ​Trello
Assistant.io, Calendly, CheckAppointments, and ​Doodle
Screencast-O-Matic, ScreenLeap, and ​Youtube
Appear.in, Skype in the Classroom, and WebRoom

Study Tools and Games

Flash Cards:
Graphic Organizers:
Miscellaneous Games:
Quiz Games:
​Trivia Games:
Word Games:

BrainScape, Classmint, Kupiter, Quizlet, StudyBlue, and StudyStack
Education Place, ReadWriteThink, and Scholastic 
BingoBaker, Blended Play, Board Game Maker, Flippity, GameBuilder, and PurposeGames
Factile, Jeopardy Labs, and ​Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
FlipQuiz, Kahoot!, Quizizz, and ​Quizalize (example)
Discovery Education, EducPlay, and ​ProProfs: Brain Games

utilities

File Converters:
Plagiarism Checkers:
​IFTTT:
Merge PDFs:
Webpage to PDF/Picture:

Cometdocs, Convertio, Online-Convert, and ​Zamzar
Plagerisma.Net and ​PlagTracker
A website that allows you to automate a variety of technological tasks. Click here for more information.
PDFMerge! and PDF-Mergy
PrintFriendly, Web2PDF, and ​Webpage to PDF

video and photo applications

GIF Makers:
Interactive Videos:
Podcasting:
Teleprompters:
Video Editors:

Ezgif, GifMaker, GIFs.com, and ​Giphy
EDpuzzle, Rocketium, and ​Vizia
Audacity and ​Soundation
AutoCue, CuePrompter, and EasyPrompterPro
Loopster, Typito, ​VideoToolbox. and WeVideo

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• AddText: Easily add photo captions to a picture.
• Adobe Spark: Create impactful graphics, web pages and video stories.
• Background Burner: Easily remove the background from your photos.
• Clipping Magic: Easily remove the background from your photos.
• FacePixelizer: Blur/pixelize student faces in your photos.
• ​My SimpleShow: Create "whiteboard" videos.
• ​PhotoJoiner: Combine multiple pictures into one.
• Pic Resize: An easy way to resize photos without losing any quality.​
• Pixorize: Add interactive annotations to photos.

My SimpleShow Example

Website BUILDING

Example Class Websites:
​Website Creators:

Boulder Valley, Mr. Graham, Mrs. G-H: Physical Education, Rene Gordon
​Google Sites, Portfoliogen​, Weebly, Wix, and ​ZOHO Sites

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• CC Search: Find photos with creative common licenses.
• DesignEVO: Create your own logo.
• EveryStockPhoto: Find photos with creative common licenses.
• Google Custom Search: Create a search engine that only searches websites that you define. Great for a class website!
• Google Hangouts: Set up live chat sessions on your website.
• HTML Color Codes:  HTML codes for any color.​ 
• Image Color Picker: Click on an image to get the html color code.
• ​ShareThis: Toolbar includes sharing options for social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. You can also include a Facebook "like" button.
• w3schools.com: Preview HTML and CSS changes.
• WidgetsForFree: Free widgets for your website.

youtube applications

• Gaze and ShareTube: Share, watch, and talk about videos with people who are at another physical location.
• Tubechop: Easily chop a section from any YouTube video or create chapters for easy viewing.
• ​Tar Heel Gameplay, Timelinely, and ​​VideoAnt: Add annotations, comments, and more to web-hosted videos. 
• ViewSync and Youtube Multiplier: Allows you to watch multiple Youtube videos simultaneously.
• Watchkin: Remove the comment and suggested videos sections from a Youtube video. ​