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Reflections and crystal balling is a blog written by Brendan Jones, a Physical Education teacher. Jones has just finished his 7th year of teaching. The blog begins with him explaining how he struggled after going back to school after being away at an office. He explains that he felt like an inexperienced teacher in front of all the classes he taught. However, by the end of the year he was able to feel more comfortable. In the blog, you see that he taught using ideas that were inspired by other educators. Jones also described how he would watch PEPLC and PEPRN to grow and stimulate global thinking and collaboration. Throughout the blog, Jones states about how he used videos, twitter, and ect to help him with his teaching. At the end of the blog, Jones talks about how his school will be using BYOD/ eTech and Google Apps for Education. Also, he is very enthusiastic about the new software and he will be trying to get the staff to like it as well. He ends the blog saying that he is passionate about engaging kids in Physical Education and he will be making their learning his core purpose.

Hi Jonsey, I was very intrigued by your post. I really did not know how much there was to being a Physical Education teacher. I admire how you praise other passionate operators like Bianca Hewes and her husband. I can see that you have a great deal of passion towards your work. I love that you care about wanting the kids to learn about Physical Education. I hope you have a great year of teaching!



Brendan Jones was wondering what types of things Physical Education teachers did in a blog called marking and feedback in P.E. He created a survey worldwide for the teachers. He collected the data that he received and turned it into a visual presentation using Spicynodes. By clicking on each node, it will give you a type effect. Only 14 people responded to his surgery. Though it was not a lot, it got responses to the questions he asked. There was not a lot of data about the task, homework, or tests from practical or theory classes. Marking and feedback mainly came from theory classes. He then posted an image that was a link to his Spicynode visualization.

I thought the Spicynode visualization was really cool. I found that it is a great way to get feedback from other teachers. There were many examples of feedback, I particularly liked the one about explaining to students how to improve their answers.