Active Learner Mid Term Reflection

Active Learning 8/9 - Reflection

Welcome Active Learners!

Thanks for getting your blog set up and following mine.  I will add you to my reading
 list soon, so that I can easily see your posts.  I am looking forward to reading your 
reflections.  Here are some guiding questions & themes for your first post about 
your progress in Active Learning so far this year...

During PE this year, how have you shown you are prepared and willing to participate 
in a variety of activities?  On what days have you participated to your best effort and 
why?  What days have been a struggle for you and why?

How do you contribute to the overall success of the class?  What kind of attitude do 
you bring and why?  How do you interact with other students in our class?

Describe your participation during fitness days - have you been able to push yourself 
physically?  What types of fitness activities do you enjoy the most?  What fitness 
goals do you have for the rest of the year? 

What does "leadership" mean to you?  Who are the best leaders in our class - why?

What improvements would you like to make in PE by the end of the year?  What are 
you the most proud of so far?

Finally, what letter grade A, B, C+, C, C- (gulp) best represents the effort you just described? 

 Please feel free to add other information that is important to your journey in
 Active Learning so far - these questions are just ideas to get you thinking.  When 
writing your post, please be thoughtful - this is going to be your report card for both 
me & your parents to read. 

Sr. PE Final Video/Blog Post

As per the the final assignment you were given in Decemeber... For your final post you need to do the following:

1) Take all of your clips and use iMovie or WindowsMovieMaker to create a single 60 second movie file. Here is my example video again.

Link to iMovie download for iPod ad iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/imovie/id377298193?mt=8

Link to WMM download for PC: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-live/movie-maker-get-started


2) Publish your final video to YouTube (you get a YouTube account with your GMail account... if haven't already use your gmail to register your YouTube channel. Here's how:

3) Embed your 60 second (of 1 second clips) video which tells the story of your semester.

Here's how:

Click the video button on the new post edit tab (top of new post)... from there you can upload from a regular YouTube Search... or from your personal YouTube account (this is what you want to choose). Select the video and it automatically embeds. :)



4) You need to write your final reflection. You should summarize your video: explain what we are watching and why those clips tell your story. Relate the video to your midterm reflection post and provide a final assessment and percentage mark for the year. You must incorporate all of the multiple categories and complex relations of home and school. Categories that may be included are: attendance, preparedness (physical and mental), initiative, cooperation, personal motivation, consistency of effort and behaviour, personal growth, understanding of healthy lifestyle, goal setting, and leadership.



VERY IMPORTANT: This final video and blog post is your chance to demonstrate your semester learning. Failure to do so will result in a failure to complete the course. You will receive a final failing grade. Submission of the final post is due January 25th at 2:30pm.

Active Learning

Welcome to all of the new bloggers coming from our Active Learning 8/9 classes. I will post the report card "interview/reflection" questions for you on here another time so stay tuned. For now see if you can use your computer or mobile device or iPod to publish your first post. You can write something short and easy about you favourite part of Active Learning so far, or what you think about the co-construction method we are using for report cards, or even what you think about us using blogs. Just practice writing a "new post" NOT a "new blog" and clicking publish so I can read it. :) If you haven't emailed me your URL please do so I can add your blog to the correct class list and make sure I don't miss it. :) Well done so far... you will get what put into this so look for a reason bigger than "neuf made me do it." Whoop! Go stars.