Last year, our class charged with lap tracking for the Marathon Kids research study. While the logging drove me halfway-batty, the actual pedometers were a pretty cool motivator for kids. In hopes of inspiring this year's batch, I hunted for an app that would easily 'track' stuff. None, that I could find, offered a way to track with simple click with all 25-ish categories (aka kid names) showing a homescreen.
I was opening class dojo for something else when it hit me that it would make a great lap-tracking device! I deleted all positive and negative feedback buttons and added a custom "run one lap" button. Now, the Ipad sits on the picnic table and each kid (and me, too, actually!) tap the tracker each time we make a loop. Since the Dojo is time-stamped, you don't have to worry about Sneaky Cheaters. Yay! The extra cool feature is the automatic class lap tracking. It feels like the kids are really working as a team to get our class 'number' higher. Every time a student hits 100 laps, we give him/her a class 'ticket' and when the entire class reaches a 1,000 lap milestone, everyone in class earns a ticket. Pretty easy, really! And, much more enjoyable than paper logs!
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Lauren Fox
9/15/2016 06:54:11 pm
I never would have thought of using this tool in this way! What a great way to build community through health awareness. Thank you for sharing Lorrie.
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