The purpose of this book is to promote healthy physical activity choices among physical education teachers and students through the integration of technology. Technology can help to reduce the frequency of sedentary behaviours by assessing physical fitness, monitoring student progress toward personal goals, refining motor skills, comprehending new concepts and increasing enjoyment of physical activity.Teachers play a valuable role in the selection and integration of technology. Students who know how to use technology to promote and gain an understanding of key concepts related to physical activity, opposed to using technology exclusively for sedentary entertainment, would benefit greatly.There is also a bound-in DVD that literally walks the reader through many of the programmes described in the book. All examples of technology use are directly related to physical education and use in physical activity settings.
Chapter
1. Technology as a Means of Enhancing Physical Activity;
Chapter
2. What Does Technology-Rich Physical Education Look Like?;
Chapter
3. Data
Entry: As Simple as One, Two, Three;
Chapter
4. Charts and Graphs: Plotting a
Course for Success;
Chapter
5. Navigating the Web as a Knowledgeable
Consumer;
Chapter
6. Web Page Development;
Chapter
7. Word Processing
Enhancement Activities;
Chapter
8. Desktop Publishing: Banners and Brochures;
Chapter
9. Newsletters and Other Advocacy Materials;
Chapter
10. Capturing
and Editing Digital Images;
Chapter
11. Advanced PowerPoint;
Chapter
12.
Advanced Editing and Multimedia Production;
Chapter
13. Physical Education
Software;
Chapter
14. Technology in the Palm of Your Hand;
Chapter
15.
Technology as a Measure of Physical Activity;
Chapter
16. Keeping up with
Cutting Edge Technologies and Long Term.
Darla Castelli has been a practising physical education teacher for the past ten years. Castelli is currently a teacher educator who instructs on physical education technology courses.
