Sunday 5 October 2008

Welcome to P.E.T.E.R

Hey there! Thanks for stopping by and reading our blog, the Physical Education Teacher's Exergaming Resource; written by experts to give you practical advice from our experience.

Here you find all the resources you need in order to use technology for the advancement of physical education.To get you started, here's the lowdown from Wikipedia

Physical Education
In most educational systems, physical education (P.E.) class, also called physical training (PT) and Phys Ed, is a course that utilizes learning in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains in a play or movement exploration setting.

Exergaming
Exergaming (a portmanteau of "exercise" and "gaming") is a term used for video games that also provide exercise. Exergames have one element of exercise and one element of gaming. The "gaming" aspect is a short form for video gaming. "Exergames" sub divide into two main implementations, those with a game specifically designed to use an exercise input device and those implementations using a genre of, or a generic game.

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