Technorati p2

I seemed a little negative on my last post. This is because i could not even find any blogs i was searching for. Not the classes, not mine, not anything. Maybe i looked under the wrong rocks but i could not find what i was looking for. Just a side note in response to my assignment....

Technorati

Technorati...from what i seeing is a large search engine for blogs. I can see this being important to businesses, or a classroom if the classroom follows a blog. This could then be a good help to finding the blog at the beginning of class or checking if anyone out there is saying something similar. Other than this i do not see much to it. The statistics are pretty astonishing and make me think about changing my views on blogs and maybe try and use it more in the future. But once again i do not see blogging in class very helpful for me personally, unless i start teaching online courses.

Del.icio.us

After spending the last few hours playing with del.icio.us i find myself liking this a lot. The website is easy to use and easy to find whatever it is you are interested in. All of that said, i do not think i will be using this site within the classroom in the future. It is very easy to get distracted and loose you place trying to chase tags. I also think it might be a little bit distracting for a student in a classroom without a direct set of links to follow. If that would be the case then it would be a waste of time just entering the site. Once again i think this is a great site and i just might start using this instead of my bookmarks page. On my computer i have internet explorer, firefox, and safari all installed. I normally use firefox but have gotten on the computer many times with one of my parents using another browser and have had trouble finding certain sites. For this reason i am going to keep delicious for a few weeks. But i cannot say i will use it in the future or in my present classroom.

RSS Feeds

RSS feeds are an incredible part of web 2.0. I find myself checking my blog every time i get on the computer and then going straight to my bloglines account to check the new feeds. I find myself over whelmed with information. What makes it so amazing is that this is not just pages of random information but useful, importnat, personal information. I enjoy sifting through the articles that almost all of them interest me. The only thing i need to pay attention to is the clock to make sure i dont stay up too late, like now!

Technology in the Classroom

In the past 3 weeks i have explored many new uses of the web. At the end of the day i find myself thinking how these can actually be used in my classroom. I would not like to have my classroom be totally based around the internet as i enjoy the personal aspect of teaching. I enjoy when my students come to me personally for information and i get to see them progress. I do believe that they should have the web to gain additional knowledge and given the opportunity to go above and beyond. With this in mind, i see myself using this new found information as an optional part of the classroom. Possibly in the future i will find more ways to implement technology into the classroom but with most of the class having internet access only at the school, i find it hard to make it mandatory. I would like to give them more information based websites they could look at and use for research and random training questions they might have. This might be found through bloglines and rss feeds. But i personally need to find out a little bit more about these.

Web 2.0

So i checked out the site http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/short and found some really great websites. Obviously given my background being a personal trainer and teaching people how to be personal trainers i checked out the site PEERtrainer under the health category. I love the accountability and motivation behind it. It enables people to help others within their "group" and jot down information from their personal workouts and share with others. Obviously those are great things, but as i look at this site what i find most interesting is the ability to gain knowledge from others experiences and build a personal library of workouts. I believe one of the most important aspects of exercise is the variability of workouts along with proper specificity and progression. Most have the specificity down and progress to some degree, but with this i believe it will be much easier for people to get new ideas without even knowing how to build a program. This broad body of virtually infinite workouts at ones fingertips gives the inexperienced a chance to use great programs without the use of a trainer or coach. Physical performance techniques and information about training has grown exponentially in the past decade, training is nothing like what it used to be in years past. Sites like this are the future of training as we share experiences; both positive and negative and continue to grow and get better.

Previous 3 posts

The previous three posts are for my KIN-710 class Technology in Physical Education with Dr. Scot Sailor at Fresno Pacific University. The title of the post is the name of the article i blogged about.