Monitoring My GAME Plan Progress

The focus of this week’s blog post is to monitor my personal GAME plan (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2010). Steps have been taken toward meeting the goals established for learning about technology and technology resources. The four questions below are used to reflect upon my learning.

Are you finding the information and resources you need?
Information and resources have been found and are continuing to be found. Electronic copies of documents such as the rubric for effort in physical education class are now available on the physical education classroom website. Also, a monthly physical activity calendar is available for students, parents, and staff to use to help promote health and fitness outside of school hours. This website is available to everyone throughout the world, not just local community members, which increases globalization of our world and has potential to allow people to participate in these activities and communicate ways to be healthy and fit (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2010).

Do you need to modify your action plan?
Modification to the action plan may be needed if an approved blog site cannot be found for the physical education website. Surveys, questionnaires, and email will still be available even if a blog site cannot be found.

What have you learned so far?
Collecting forms to be able to use student pictures on the website takes time and effort. Many students and parents are very quick to fill out the consent form and return it. However, there are some parents that have still not returned their consent form. Contacting the few people in charge of the technology in the school district also takes time and patience because they are so busy helping out the thousands of other staff members in the school district.

What new questions have arisen?
Should homework be assigned so students can use this physical education website? If so, should it be mandatory and used as part of their final grade or should it be optional and used as extra credit? What if not all families have easy access to a computer or the internet? If a blog is used for student assessment, how will the blog posts be monitored and assessed? Assessment is more than the assigning of grades and serves a critical role in monitoring and evaluating the academic progress of students (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2010). A rubric and practice sessions may be needed before considering this assessment as part of students' grades. If homework is done at home, how can teachers be sure that the work is done by their students and not by someone else?

The goal of these blog posts is to explore strategies for seamlessly integrating technology into the content area. A classroom website is one way to do integrate technology into the classroom and the appropriate steps are being taken to accomplish this goal. More information about the development of my GAME plan and the implementation of my GAME plan can be found by reading the two previous blog postings written below. More information about ISTE’s Educational Technology Standards for Teachers can be found on their website by clicking here.

Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach (Laureate Education custom edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning

Carrying Out My GAME Plan

The effect of my classroom website increases globalization of our world (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2010). My classroom website has the potential to allow parents, students, teachers, and people from around the world to participate in activities and communicate with each other about health and fitness. Having access to hardware, software, and connectivity does not necessarily mean student learning will occur; it is how you use the technology that is important (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2010). Not only do I need to have my website working properly, I may need to teach students how to use it properly.

I will need resources to carry out my GAME plan. I will need to have electronic copies of documents so I can upload them to my classroom website. I will need to get approval from parents if I am going to use any pictures of students on my classroom website. I will need time to continue to develop my classroom website, such as creating questionnaires and surveys.

There is additional information that I need. For example, I will need to see if there is certain district approved software and/or regulations when using this technology. Does our school district have an approved list of blogs that we can use? How will I efficiently monitor and respond to blog postings and to the increased communication that my classroom website encourages.

I have been able to take a few steps so far. I am in the process of creating and modifying my classroom information. So far I have a calendar of upcoming events, a few documents, and links to other websites.

I will continue to develop my GAME plan in the future. My classroom website could be a great communication tool to offer flexibility in the methods and settings in which students can communicate with one another, teachers, and experts (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2010). Blogs and emails could increase collaboration and communication between students, teachers, and parents to help student learning and student success.


Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2010). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.

Developing My Personal GAME Plan

I need to integrate the National Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators into the content area of elementary physical education. The two indicators in the NETS-T that I will set goals for to help strengthen my confidence and proficiency are: 3b – Collaborating with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation; 3c – Communicating relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats.

GAME Plan:

Set Goals: My goal is to create and maintain a website to communicate relevant information and ideas about physical education, health, and fitness effectively to students, parents, and peers as well as being able to collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using this website. In order to help achieve this goal, each page of my website must be consistent in look and feel as well as have the appropriate information on it without feeling too cluttered (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2010).

Take Action: The actions I will take to achieve these goals is to add interactive content such as weekly announcements, rubric for grading, calendar of events, multimedia, links to other websites, and a blog to my classroom website.

Monitor: I will monitor my progress by the feedback and blog postings by students, peers, parents, and community members. Students and parents may need guidance on what and how to post (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2010). I will need to teach my students how to use blogs appropriately and will approve or reject postings before they can be seen by others.

Evaluate and Extend: I will evaluate and extend my learning through reflection by providing surveys and questionnaires to students, parents, peers, and community members. These surveys will give me feedback and will help me think of how or if I should use this technology in the future.

I have the knowledge, confidence, beliefs, and supportive culture that are required to effectively integrate technology into the classroom (Laureate Education, Inc, 2009). I have the technology skills to present the content to students, I am comfortable in using and teaching this technology to students, I believe that students need to interact with the content and not just be told what and how to learn, and I also have the support from my community to use this technology to challenge students and enhance their learning. There are many digital tools that can support teaching and student learning. For example, computer-based tutorials, webquests, wikis, and websites can help students analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information about health and fitness (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2010). Creating and using this classroom website for physical education may help me achieve my GAME plan.

Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2010). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2009). Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas. Baltimore: Author