TECHNOLOGY LABS
IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
AND HEALTH


by KEN FELKER
3 rd edition, 2010, 148 pages, $29.95
ISBN 9978-0-89641-481-5

Technology Labs in Physical Education and Health 3rd edition is designed to provide students with the skills needed to integrate technology into physical education, health, sport, recreation, and human performance. The introduction examines the barriers of adopting new technologies, digital immigrants and digital natives, funding, academic standards, and software/hardware solutions. The heart of the book includes 14 step-by-step labs.

The labs use software that is included with this book, accessed from the internet, or a program within the Microsoft Office 07 Suite. Most labs can be completed in 1-2 hours and each provides completed work that may be added to a professional portfolio.

This book might be classified as the brief edition since Technology Integration in Physical Education and Health 3rd edition includes all components of this text, in addition to chapters on topics such as Exergaming, Web 2.0 Tools, Mobile Handheld Devices, and Digital Imaging to name a few.

 

CONTENTS

• Introduction — Integrating Technology into Health & Physical Education

  Today’s Learner
  Academic Standards
  Technology Funding in HPE
  Hardware and Software Solutions

  Fitness Assessment — TriFIT, LabPro Physiology, FITNESSGRAM, ACTIVITYGRAM, Heart Rate Monitors, Brockport Physical Fitness Test

  Grading — PE Manager, Easy Grade Pro

  Instructional Applications — DINE Healthy 7, Primal Pictures, MyPyramid

  Productivity
  Introduction Questio
  

• Health and Physical Education Labs

Lab #1 —Nutritional Analysis
Lab #2 —Health Risk Appraisals Lab #3 —Fitness Assessment
Lab #4 —PE Manager
Lab #5 —Heart Rate Monitors Lab #6 —Fitness Center Design
Lab #7 —Grading/Attendance

• Productivity Labs

Lab #8 —Digital Portfolio Lab #9 —Podcasting
Lab #10—Desktop Publishing Lab #11—Heart Rate Calculator
Lab #12—Digital Game
Lab #13—Web Resource
Lab #14—Web Page Design

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . .

Ken Felker, Chairperson and Professor of Health and Physical Education at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, teaches courses in technology integration and health methodology, and was named the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Technology Scholar in 2004. He has published and presented nationally and internationally on numerous technologies and their applications, and currently serves as Health and Physical Curriculum Specialist for Learning & Leading with Technology, a journal of the International Society for Technology Education. In fall of 2005, Dr. Felker initiated a research project providing student teachers and supervisors with PDAs to gather data, plan, assess, and communicate in the classroom.

He was selected as the 1998 Pennsylvania Health Educator of the Year, 1999 Eastern District AAHPERD Outstanding Health Professional, and was a finalist for the National Health Educator of the Year in 1999. In 2006, Dr. Felker received the PSAHPERD Cottrell Award, and was honored in 2009 with the Award of Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology at the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning.