ActiveHealth

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ActiveHealth

• Enhancing a community of practice using ICTs.

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Community of Physical Health Educators

• Existing community consisting of
• Practicing teachers (teacher)
• Pre-service teachers (student)
• Teacher educators (lecturer)

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Community Needs

• Supporting entry of new members
• Increased opportunity for professional
  development particularly focused on resource
  sharing

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ActiveHealth

• Inspired by students and lecturers.
• Supported by teachers.
• Organising the community with a supporting
  Web-site.

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Supporting entry of new members

• Expert mentoring
• Peer mentoring
• Independent and honours projects

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Increased opportunity for professional development

• Workshops focused on
• Use of ICTs to support teaching and learning
• Changing curriculum
• Advancements within the discipline

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Resource Sharing

• Identified and created by community members.
• Reviewed by community members.
• PE Health Web Sites
• Teaching Support Sites
• Lesson Ideas
• Assessment Task
• Online Learning Activities
• Journals Online
• Literature Reviews
• Current Issues

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Web design considerations

• Multiple resource types
• Contributions by many
• Validated by reviewers
• Maintenance
• Skills of users
• Computer power of users

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Benefits of WebObjects

• Easy to develop
• Quick
• Support from WebObjects community
• Does the work for you
• Years of experience
• Cross platform

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Benefits of WebObjects

• Less coding required
• Scaleability
• Allows you to separate business and application

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