Monica O'Rourke
Promoting Personal Fitness and Conditioning Using Social Media: Teacher Strategies
There is no surprise that students are “connected” online and through social media. This session shares facts and figures to why social media is a health and fitness promotion opportunity waiting to happen! University professors and teachers will receive practical strategies and examples of how to use social media to promote personal fitness and conditioning in their school.
Main Points:
1.With over 500 million Facebook users and 4,000 texts a month by teenagers alone, social media is a platform to share information and personal achievements. Using this concept, teachers and professors can use these same tools to promote their class and student personal health and fitness.
2.Along with teaching psychomotor skills, standards promote lifelong fitness and physical activity. Research has shown effective means to teaching this is to effectively teach to the cognitive and affective domain. This session will demonstrate how to teach key health and fitness concepts and build team cohesion through social media.
3.Practical examples will be provided by two university pilot programs using social media and personal fitness conditioning. Results can be applied to university and secondary school teaching.
4.Participants will be provided with material and resources to begin using social media to promote their own physical education program.
Goals/Objectives/Outcomes:
Goal 1: Social Media
1a. Objective: Understand the statistics and impact of social media has on youth and young adults.
1b. Objective: Recognize strategies that can be used to promote physical education classes as well as encouraging students’ personal fitness and health.
1c. Objective: Participate by logging in to social media sites that are currently using this method of teaching and social promotion.
Goal 2: University Examples
2a. Objective: Examine a wide-variety of social media examples related to personal health and fitness.
2b. Objective: Understand through personal student success stories of how social media has helped particularly young women.
2c. Objective: Identify Facebook, twitter, websites, etc. and video strategies that can be used in their own program.
Goal 3: Practical Tools for Implementation
3a. Objective: Using the provided handout of resources, links, and project starters, participants will be able to begin to implement using social media in their class.
3b. Objective: Using the provided learning level starter list, participants will identify at least one social media method that can be used in their class.
Number of Presenter(s): (Limited to 3 per session)
Friday 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Cypress
There is no surprise that students are “connected” online and through social media. This session shares facts and figures to why social media is a health and fitness promotion opportunity waiting to happen! University professors and teachers will receive practical strategies and examples of how to use social media to promote personal fitness and conditioning in their school.
Main Points:
1.With over 500 million Facebook users and 4,000 texts a month by teenagers alone, social media is a platform to share information and personal achievements. Using this concept, teachers and professors can use these same tools to promote their class and student personal health and fitness.
2.Along with teaching psychomotor skills, standards promote lifelong fitness and physical activity. Research has shown effective means to teaching this is to effectively teach to the cognitive and affective domain. This session will demonstrate how to teach key health and fitness concepts and build team cohesion through social media.
3.Practical examples will be provided by two university pilot programs using social media and personal fitness conditioning. Results can be applied to university and secondary school teaching.
4.Participants will be provided with material and resources to begin using social media to promote their own physical education program.
Goals/Objectives/Outcomes:
Goal 1: Social Media
1a. Objective: Understand the statistics and impact of social media has on youth and young adults.
1b. Objective: Recognize strategies that can be used to promote physical education classes as well as encouraging students’ personal fitness and health.
1c. Objective: Participate by logging in to social media sites that are currently using this method of teaching and social promotion.
Goal 2: University Examples
2a. Objective: Examine a wide-variety of social media examples related to personal health and fitness.
2b. Objective: Understand through personal student success stories of how social media has helped particularly young women.
2c. Objective: Identify Facebook, twitter, websites, etc. and video strategies that can be used in their own program.
Goal 3: Practical Tools for Implementation
3a. Objective: Using the provided handout of resources, links, and project starters, participants will be able to begin to implement using social media in their class.
3b. Objective: Using the provided learning level starter list, participants will identify at least one social media method that can be used in their class.
Number of Presenter(s): (Limited to 3 per session)
Friday 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Cypress