Digital Portfolios (Active Learning)

Active Learning - New Post

In todays fitness class, I would like you to think about what you have written in your mid year blog post.  Many students have written about how hard they work and push themselves during fitness days which is awesome!  Many more of you have written about having goals to improve your fitness as the year continues.  I was very happy to see so many students writing about how fitness has been beneficial to you so far.

With that in mind - please think about how you can show me evidence of your effort.  It may look like a written reflection.  Even better, post a picture of you either during or immediately after your workout that clearly shows that you have been sweating, have a red face etc., along with a short reflection of what it feels like to work hard.

Comm11 Intro Write (10 Year Plan)

As a way for me to get a sense of what you value (family, friends, money, fame, travel) I want to describe your life in 10 years.

Tell me where you are, who you are with, what you do for work, what a day in your life looks like. Do you have kids, a car, a plane? What do you do for fun?

Then tell me how you got there... what steps (between you sitting in this school and the life you just describe) are required to achieve what you are hoping for.

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.

What do you want?

This week we touched briefly on vast array of workouts one can do in the weight room. Many of us think we have a idea of what the basic muscles are and how to use machines, but we want to learn to be more specific than that. I asked you to pick a goal (get bigger, get faster, lose weight etc.) and then select ten activities you thought would be beneficial to your goal. Yesterday you tested out your work out, were asked to record it (weight, reps, sets, and the order of activities), and now I want you to reflect on your choices.

1) Please describe your workout. What activities did you choose? What order did you do them in? How much weight? How many reps/sets?

2) Why? This is the most important piece. I want to know what you are thinking when you decide what to do in you workout. What previous knowledge, or newly acquired information are you basing your choices on? Where else could you have researched some specifics or grabbed new ideas for your goal? Have you tried Youtube?

What about the App Store on your phone? 

How closely did your choices align with your overall goal? Why did you choose the order, reps, sets etc? Explain your entire thought process.

3) Now that it's done, evaluate your workout? Did it go well? Was is tough enough? Easy enough? Was it fun? Did it do what you thought it was going to do? What didn't go well? Would you change anything now? What would you remove, add, adjust?

When you are done, go check your comments on your old posts. Then go comment of 5 other peoples work out posts.

THEN: See Neuf about your parent comments on your report card blog.

PE mid point Self Reflection and Mark

Along with the post you made for your interim (please reread it to refresh your memory), I would like you to consider the following questions (from our regular interview format) and then write a second response detailing your efforts thus far AND this time including a percentage you feel is appropriate and an explanation as to why. The more honest and thoughtful your post is the better.

Once your own post is completed comment on your 5 friends posts about their mark as well. Be polite but honest with them about their goals, thoughts, and self assessment. This is sensitive territory so leave the jokes aside and be serious about your own efforts and those of your peers. This is a chance to publicly show/share with admin, parents, peers, and me how you see PE so far.

I need to see your parents have read this by having them post a comment on your report card post, OR having them email me that they have read this (neufeld_r@surreyschools.ca), OR having them call me at the school to chat about it.