ITT Students' World Wide Web Workshop · Harton School

• Click on the link GCSE Subjects, which leads to the NEAB website. We are going to find out what the Physical Education email address is.
• Click on Physical Education. You will find the RE email address at the top of the web page.
• Find out a syllabus number for the GCSE Physical Education Syllabus. You may have to scroll down the page.

• The BBC website is supposed to be the most visited information-based website in Europe. BBC Education has a section called GCSE Bitesize Revision, which is intended for learners working on their own.
• Return to the Physical Education Page. Click on the Bitesize Revision link. Then click on the Physical Education link. Look at the topics. Are they relevant? Try one and assess the quality of subsequent pages for age-appropriateness and curriculum focus.

• Return to the Physical Education Page. Assess the relevance of the teaching ideas, lesson plans, worksheets and resources on offer for PE teachers on the two links Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers and Educate the Children. Access Sports Media, which is billed as an interactive international PE Curricular Web site dedicated to providing lesson plans, tips, drills, activities and other teaching aids for the physical education teacher.

• Return to the Physical Education Page. The portal Physical Education and Special Educational Needs links to a number of sites offering resources and strategies for learners with difficulties and impairments. How useful might the links be in your PE teaching?

• Return to the Physical Education Page and click on the Google link. Use "Physical Education" as your keywords, in quotes. How many hits were there? Print out the first page of hits. Now try physical education. Any change in the type and quantity of hits?
• Now try out Yahoo, typing "Physical Education" into the box. How does Yahoo present search results?
• What are the advantages and the disadvantages of each of these search engines?

• If you had the Internet up and running, would you be able to locate and use a web resource in your teaching? Could you set your students a task which they might complete by referring to a web page or website?
• The Teacher Training Agency has published Initial Teacher Training (ITT) National Curriculum for the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in subject teaching: Exemplification materials. Access their ICT exemplification materials page and find out how to obtain the materials for Physical Education.

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