Friday 11 September 2009

news: Exergaming is coming to PETE

The NASPE Physical Education Teacher Education Conference occurs every three years and is the premier professional development and networking event for university PETE faculty.

The focus is always on current and future issues, initiatives, and research that impact physical education teacher education programs. Attendees will learn from the many workshops, roundtables, poster sessions, paper sessions, general sessions, and featured speakers. .

For this conference the future issues will be the first to include a dedicated active gaming presentation in the pre-workshops of October 7th. Within the "Using Technology in Physical Education Teacher Education" workshop Dr Lisa Hansen will present "Active Gaming and Interactive Fitness: implementation strategies ".

This workshop was given at the national AAHPERD Conference in Tampa earlier this year and along with the provided handbook is an excellent resource for physical education teachers, including examples of lesson plans.

Read more on the workshop here and here

More about the organisations involved : AAHPERD, NAPSE, PETE