The purpose of this article is to disseminate information and methods that I have developed to assist students in the physical education discipline learn new and improved motor skills as a result of using imagery combined with technology. Research has shown that students learn more by participating in activities rather than by listening and watching activities. The activity might be a specific individual activity like gymnastics tumbling or a team activity in which learning the correct form for shooting or dribbling a basketball is imperative to team play. Using my approach, after a teacher explanation and demonstration of a specific activity, each student is videotaped on a VHS tape and this tape is digitized to a computer. Each group is given an activity web page that displays their individual videos as well as a checklist describing the cues demonstrated by the instructor.
Students watch their video and indicate correct mechanics as well as areas of improvement.
In addition, each student has the opportunity to view other group member's videos in order to become familiar with the correct technique of this motor activity. For example, let's use basketball as the lesson and the lay-up as the specific practice activity. These cues are translated to a web page in the form of a checklist. In addition, immediate feedback is given to students performing lay-ups in game situations so that the motor cues are enforced. Finally, each student is videotaped onto a VHS tape and this tape is digitized to a computer file.