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(PetStoreLady, 2009)

Hey Kids, did you know that moving your body by running, jumping, walking, and playing gives you energy, makes your muscles stronger and helps you feel good about yourself. So together let's set a challenge and 'Find Thirty' and provide our mind and body with a healthy start to our school day. Students be brave and take the dare to join the challenge, so together we can become fit, healthy and happy little vegemites. Becoming healthy and active doesn't have to be hard set your goals at a level that you feel you can achieve, an encourage yourself to do the best that you can. Remember the purpose of this task is about you feeling good and improving your quality of fitness, and most of all to h ave fun and enjoy the challenge you have created with your friends.

On this page you will find resources that will help in the planning of your exercise challenge, remember HEALTHY KID'S are HAPPY KID'S.

__**Outline of the Task **__

As a group your task is to create a 30min physical activity that you will follow over five days. The creation of your routine is up to your group's imagination and fitness ability. For each day that you complete your challenge you will need to blog your progress using Edublogs.

After your Kid-Fit Challenge has been completed, your group will be required to create a short presentation video (3-5 Minutes) which includes:
 * Thoughts on the importance of daily physical activity
 * Interesting experiences with their routines (Modifications, Aims, Targets etc.)
 * Any changes they might make in the future to improve
 * You may also wish to talk about your individual achievements

__**Required Resources **__

To complete this task you will be required to use the resources Edublogs and TeacherTube.

//**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Edublogs **//

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Edublogs is a website where teacher's can go to create a blog account for their classroom.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">media type="youtube" key="3LPUipgGgUQ?rel=0" height="180" width="397" <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">(edublogssupport, 2011)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For this task a blog will be created using the website Edublogs. The blog will include the name of each group, and under the name of your group each member will have their own separate place to blog. The provided link @http://kidfitchallenge1.edublogs.org/ is an example of a blog that was created by the teacher Mrs Feighan as a place for her students to blog for their exercise challenge.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Your Teacher will allow you to write in your blog for each day you complete your fitness. In your blog you can write about how fit you think you are, what you would like to achieve from the challenge, your personal goal, names of group members and how you feel after your exercise routine. However these are just suggested ideas, you are open to write about whatever you wish to write about, as long as it is appropriate and related to your exercise challenge. At the end of the challenge the class together will use their blogs to reflect on their learning.

//__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">TeacherTube **__//

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">TeacherTube is a video sharing website where teachers can share and use educational resources, such as video, audio, photos and blogs.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For this task TeacherTube can be used as a place to upload your presentation videos.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To upload an Video to TeacherTube follow these steps:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">First you will need to log in to your account, which will be created by your Teacher
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Once logged in click on the upload button located in the toolbar to the top of the screen
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You will then be taken to a page that will ask you to select an album to keep your video in
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Your teacher has created an album called 'Kid Fit Challenge' to select the album press the drop down menu and click on the name
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You will then need to fill out the following information for your video: title, brief description, tags and video channels
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Title your video with the name of your group
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Provide a brief description about your video and what it includes
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Enter tags (tags are keywords used to describe your video, so that they can be easily searched and organised)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Select the video channels that your video will feature on. For this task select 'Physical Education' and 'Middle School'
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Press Continue, this will take you to the following step
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Browse for your video on your computer by clicking on the browse button. (Note before uploading your video your teacher will save your video to the one file stored on a computer)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Select your video and click open
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Select your video to be for private use only. (This means that people can only view your video if they have the link, so be sure to save your link in a safe place)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Click on the 'Upload Video' tab.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Once uploaded a message will be displayed saying "your video was successfully added"
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To view your added video, click 'My Videos' on the log in home page.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If your still unsure of how to upload your video to TeacherTube, you can watch the video below:

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__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Other Suggested Resources **__

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Cool Tools for Schools and Whatswhat.me are suggested resources that you may wish to use.

//**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Cool Tools for Schools **//

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Cool Tools for Schools is a Wiki space that includes links and information about the different forms of technology, which are available to both students and teachers to use as tools in a classroom. For this task Cool Tools for Schools maybe helpful when it comes to deciding on what technology you can use to present or edit your video. To look at the tools suggested for presenting and editing videos simply head to the websites home pageand click on the link 'Video Tools'located in the toolbar to the left side of the page. On the page you should see a list of all the available websites you can use to create and edit your video.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Cool Tools for School has included websites that can be used to:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Present videos, example: YouTube, Teacher Tube, School Tube etc
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Edit videos, example: JayCut and Masher
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Add music, example: Smilebox
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Add photos and pictures, example: Vuvox, One true media
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Add text and speech bubbles, example: Bubble PLY

//**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">WhatsWhat.me **//

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">WhatsWhat.me is a "kids only" website that provides safe secure social networking for kids. This website is a "no bulling allowed community" that will teach you positive online behaviour and internet safety. WhatsWhat.me allows you to: create a profile, view other's profile, form and join groups and communicate via sending messages.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To register to Whatswhat.me click join and follow the required steps, you will be asked to enter:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Your name
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Grade
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">User Name
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Password
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You will also need to have an installed webcam, and your parents' permission to use this site.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">WhatsWhat.me is provided as a social networking resource that you may choose to use as a way to chat and communicate to your classmates for this task after school hours.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">(multivu, 2011)


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Check out these other websites related to children's physical health. You never know they might just get you in the mood to EXERCISE! **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">@http://www.workoutkid.com/
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">@http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/fit/work_it_out.html
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">@http://www.kidnetic.com/
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">@http://www.bam.gov/sub_physicalactivity/cal_index.asp

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">References **__

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">edublogssupport.(2011/3/9).Why Edublogs?.Retrieved May 16, from <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LPUipgGgUQ

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Jason.(2007/4/12).Uploading Videos on Teacher Tube.Retrieved May 16, 2012 from <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">@http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=Uploading_Videos_on_TeacherTube&video_id=675

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">multivu.(2011/01/19).Kids Social Network: Whatswhat.me.Retrieved May 16, from <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">@http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgn706_kids-social-network-whatswhat-me-beta_news

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">PetStoreLady.(2009/11/03).Sid the Science Kid-Work Your Body. Retrieved May 16, from <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHVWF_P1CS0