From+the+Heart

= __From the Heart __ = -When I started building this site, I wasn't sure if physical education would fit within the parameters of integrating technology into the classroom. Physical education has always been a little outside of the normal range of scope in regards to a classic classroom setting. What I found however, during my research and building of this site, was that any subject can benefit from an integration of the wealth of knowledge that is available on the internet. I couldn't believe the websites that I found that I wish I had available to me when I was going through school. The nutrition websites were the ones that I think children today could benefit from the most. I learned that it just took a little creative energy and teaching from experience on my part to fine tune my wiki and make it easy to navigate and understand for the average student.

-I am looking forward to being a teacher. At this point it is still something that is a little over a year away and this entire wiki almost seems like a pipe-dream in its structure. Sure, I would like to use some of these lessons and experiences in a classroom. Sure, I would like to share my experiences with health and fitness with my students. But I do not have a classroom, and I do not have any students...yet. This wiki excited me in thinking that someday, I could use these lessons and experiences and share them with students that are probably in school right now. This wiki gave me ideas that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise. It gave me ideas for lessons, forced me to research helpful websites and gave me the tools to hopefully be a great physical education teacher in the future.

-I am most proud of the fact that I integrated technology into a subject that you usually do not sit down in front of a computer for. I think I did this successfully and with an eye for the student of today. I know I will make a great teacher and if I had to do anything differently next time in regard to building this wiki, I don't think that I would. I take every experience as it is and try not to regret anything in my life. I just hope to keep building on my experiences, and continue to share them with others.