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Mark Anthony    High School Health/PE

My Course Objectives:  Understand and demonstrate a variety of new technologies.  Manipulate a variety of technologies for the purpose of web-wide communication.  Manage information acquired through the use of new technology.

What I am hoping to learn:  I am hoping to increase my web savvy knowledge/skills and apply the technology to my professional/personal life.  I plan on developing my professional social net-working through the use of the Web 2.0 technologies.  I will attempt to further expand into my personal life, once I become a competent Web 2.0 communicator.

Target Audience:  Most of the work I'll complete in this course, will be geared toward improving communication with the students, parents, and the community I serve as a high school health/PE teacher.

                                                              My 2 year old son, on the set of ESPN.

Why:  There are multiple barriers to parental involvement in health education.  Parental involvement is an important piece to my health education philosophy.  Research supports the idea that health education programs with a strong parental component, improves parent-child communication and influences positive health behavior change. 

Hobbies and interests:  I am passionate about bass fishing.  I have been a member of the NH TBF for the last two seasons and prior to that the NH BASS federation for five seasons.  In that time I have qualified for the NH State team five times and recently qualified to fish the TBF National this April on Lake Wylie;  Charolette, NC.  I have been very busy this winter trying obtain sponsors who would be willing to help with expenses this season and have signed a contract with Fishbelly International.

        My son and I after the 2006 NH TBF weigh in.

Family: My wife and I are expecting our second boy this March/April 2008.  We are still undecidedwhat to name him but, are narrowing the list down to (Cameron Joseph, Colton Joseph, Carson Joseph).