Team Lineup (a Coaching App) By Elizabeth B.

Elizabeth Birchem

Team Line Up

A Coaching app

Introduction

     Team Line up is an app meant for sports coaches to help them with game drills. You can choose what kinda backdrop you need. They have basketball, American football, baseball, cricket, ice hockey, and many more fields/courts.

How to Use the app

     When you first open the app there are a bunch of soccer fields and how you change the backdrop is next to where you can put your team name as a little icon. When you click on that icon a bunch of options for will show up and you can start putting your players on the field.

Pros

On your backdrop, you can add as many or as little players you need. You can customize the color of your player to match your jersey and do other colors for other teams! With the players, you can put their names on the little players so you don’t get confused about who’s who. It shows the entire court at an aerial view so you can put your players anywhere. Also, when you chose your court the ball used in the game will show up so you can use the ball. You can also put in your team name.

Cons 

When you set your characters and the ball on the court/field they stay there and they are very hard to move. When you put your players out on the court/field and you forget to put names or misspell their names then you can’t fix the names or put their name on.

Overall Thoughts

Team LineUp is a good app, but I personally do not recommend this app cause I feel there are better coaching app options out there. I’m not saying Team LineUp is a bad app, it works and is a decent app but I feel like there are better apps out there.  Such as iPractice builder and Coach’s eye.

   

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Block Site by Aiden C.

  Block Site is a very useful app to keep yourself productive online when using google online. It can block out not productive sites that you don’t need, like online games that kids should not be playing in class. Block site can do blacklists or whitelists which you can personally set up. You can redirect from websites so if you are on a website that is not allowed it will take you to a different website instead. Also you can set up a message so if someone is blocked from a website it will say a certain message, this is helpful when you want to tell a kid or adult why they cannot be on a website or to taunt them. You can also set up certain times a kid is allowed on a certain website or if they need to be on that website at a certain time and no other website. Block site is an ultimate tool for staying productive instead of doing random things all day long. It can block out most websites but sometimes it does not work. I recommend using it because it can keep you on track and raise your productivity to 100%.

STEM Class

The STEM class in our school is taught by Mr.Roth and is a class where students get to decide what they want to make,fix or understand and in this blog we will go over the STEM process and how kids use it,the tools,challenges,and goals of a student,and my and other student’s overall opinion of the class.

The STEM process consists of ASK: where students define the problem or want to know about something.IMAGINE: this is the step where they pick how they want to achieve their goals whether that be by YouTube videos,research,or trial and error.PLAN:once the student has an idea of how they want to achieve their goal they plan what the best way to do that is.CREATE:Create is the phase where you put everything together ASK,IMAGINE,and PLAN all mush together to create,fix or understand the plan but then comes the hardest part.TEST:in this step you put your creation or knowledge to the test to see if it works and this can be tested in many ways such as seeing if it does what you wanted it to do or going to someone who does know about what you want to understand and checking if what learned is correct.

The tools in the STEM class range from ordinary saws to drills that can go through wood like it’s butter. This is very good because if a student wants to do an ambitious project they have all the tools so the only limit is your imagination and other people's safety. There are a lot of different challenges people might run into but all projects have different challenges but a problem I think all students can run into is it’s an independent project meaning Mr.Roth may not know how to solve a problem and the internet isn't always correct.I think the goal of every student is to be satisfied with what they have accomplished.

All the machines in Mr.Roth’s room

     

Overall I think this class is perfect for middle schoolers because this is when students get to find what they like and this class gives students the perfect opportunity to find what they are interested in whether that be fixing machines,building drones,or just discovering something new. But if my opinion isn’t enough to convince you then maybe these people’s opinions will. “It’s one of my favorite classes. It’s just really fun,” said an 8th grader and “Mr.Roth is a great teacher and the class he teaches is also pretty great,” said another 8th grader . If that doesn’t convince you I don’t know what will. Thanks for reading.

Prodigy by Rachel W.

Prodigy is a fun math game, a magical wizard world with all sorts of fun things to do. If you want to be the best, then you might want to be staring at your iPad forever.

       When you get into Prodigy, it will ask you for your username and password. If you have never used Prodigy, then you can sign in with google. If you do not want to sign in with google you can create a new account.

If you sign in with google, it will ask you to sign in to your google account. If you are a new player then it will ask you some things for you to create your account. To create an account click on new player.

When you get to this page you can click on home or school. If you click home, then you will be taken to this page:

Choose where you live, in my case America, and since this is a CMS blog, you would choose America.

Next, you choose your state. 

Now pick what grade you’re in, and choose correctly! Especially if you are doing this for a teacher. 

Then, put your name where it says “putyournamehere”. Then put the first letter of your last name.

Now, it will ask you to make a password. Of course I wouldn’t use this kind of password, but maybe something like your student number, or lunch number, just try some things. 

Be ready with a piece of paper or a notecard to write down your password on. 

Next, put in your username and password. It will take you to this page:

Create a character.

Choose where you are. If you choose home, you can pick your world and start playing.  If you are at school and playing this for fun, still choose home. If you are setting up with a teacher, then click school and type in your code. 

Lastly, follow Noot’s instructions. Then you are free to play! 

Pros

This app / website is a fun educational math game, and it helps people with math, and it presents it in a fun way. If you need math practice, but don’t want to actually do just straight up math, Prodigy is a great game. 

Cons

It doesn’t have a lot of math, generally just when you are in a battle. If you are not willing to do math but want to play, you can avoid battles. 

All around you can have fun with this game, but be careful of how you use it. If you are at home, it is ok, but at school make sure you are not avoiding your math!