PE Central

Not to be too self-promoting for BYU, but one of the best websites for PE teachers out there is a site called pecentral.org. As we learned about Web 2.0 two weeks ago, I remembered a plug that our Advocacy teacher, Dr. Todd Pennington, made about a website that he and a colleague had created back when most people were still figuring out what the web was. PE Central is a site that PE teachers can use to search for and add content to to help other PE teachers throughout the world who may be short on ideas for their classes. From its small beginnings of two grad students in 1996, it has grown to a site that utilizes over 175 volunteers and has tremendous resources. The site contains links to online stores where you can purchase physical education equipment, ideas for practices, a section for adapted physical education, bulletin boards to bounce ideas off of other teachers, and much more. As a teacher, I could see myself using this site when I am out of ideas, to look for job openings, to reference PE journals and research, order equipment, and find media to use to teach. The website is an excellent example of user-editable content and something that teachers in a field that is not typically linked to technology can use.