Blog Post #8

Find some 21st Century Learning and Communicating Tools. Tell us about them. Tell us where we can find them. Give a thorough review of at least one of them.

A tool that I stumbled across this semester was called Sportplan. I found it while doing a C4T assignment for EDM 310 on a P.E. teacher's blog. He provided a few links and I checked it out. Sportplan is a very helpful tool to both P.E. teachers and coaches. You select your sport or type of activity or drill and you are presented with various choices. This software would allow a teacher or coach to project these images and videos and save the time it would take to draw them up. It has exercises for agility and fitness and general athletics so it would be ideal for a physical education teacher. This is a European site, so there is no football as we know it on here yet, but there are drills that can be applied to it. This tool would be a change from a blackboard and might grab attention better as well. It would save valuable time during preparation and allow more time for other tasks. Here is a link to the Sportplan blog, which is full of great information. As well as one to their FAQ page.

Dylan Blain, the P.E. teacher I learned of this tool from, mentioned that an app was in the making for this software, and I hope there is. But I'm sure that there are many others like it out there already. This was just one that I stumbled across and really liked.