Website Time

Alright here is my website for my future Health I and Fitness for Life classes. Feel free to explore!

https://sites.google.com/site/kjbhealth/home 

Personal Learning Networks

For me it sounds like a personal learning network is a place where you can dump all the information you want to look into or are interested in, all in one place. You can sort it by articles, blogs, newspaper, recent events, etc. Anything and everything you are interested in on a topic and have researched you can then hook it to your PLN and go back to it when you want.

I am using Google Reader as my PLN platform. It is very easy to manage and I can easily sort through what I want to look at. I follow family and friends blogs so that is in my PLN. But I also have health related websites that I can look into and see what is new or going on which I don't know about. If I have a topic that shows up on one of those feeds, I can quickly cross reference it to my other feeds to gain more information on the subject. They are a great way to have information that I am interested in quickly and it is easy instead of searching and searching, I have it right there.

RSS Feeds

For my RSS feeds I wanted to concentrate on finding reliable health information. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention updates their site daily with the latest news and stories on health. It also provides different subcategories, anything from workplace safety to disease and symptoms. 

http://www.cdc.gov/

Another site I chose to follow was one based on Physical Education. It provides all sorts of lesson plan ideas that you can modify to your own classroom. It has a lot of things on activities, games, media, classroom management. It is actually quite helpful so that you don't get stuck in the rut of doing the same old things in P.E. 

http://www.pecentral.org/

The last website I chose was the World Health Organization site. It basically gives you the updated information with anything health related from around the world. The main story right now is how maternal deaths worldwide are dropping up to a third. Relevant information that provides facts about health. 

http://www.who.int/en/

Yay for RSS feeds!

Yay or Nay? Blogs

I am Kelli Jo Black and I am from Orem, UT. My major is School Health Education and I am minoring in Physical Education/Coaching. It is definitely going to be a fun time teaching :) I think if I were to use blogs in my classroom I would personally set up a blog. This blog would specifically be for parents so that they could track assignments, homework, tests, and lessons that are going on in the classroom. Blogs can obviously be used in many ways in a classroom. Students could start an activity blog, instead of a paper activity log for P.E. That way they could tell even more about what sort of exercise or physical activity they got for the day. Blogs could be used as homework assignments to facilitate discussions outside of the classroom on certain topics. Being a health major I know there are tons of blogs out their related to health. Students could research some of these and determine the validity, what type of information they have, good source, and bad source type of things. I think blogs are definitely something that should be used in the classroom and you can get creative with them too.