We started our first session with high school students in the game lab yesterday. We have 7 students, with only 1 being a girl. So far everything is running smoothly. The students are very enthusiastic about trying out games they have never played before and very interested in the exergames. We had day 1 of exergaming today and it was a hit. The kids rotated on several games and being that there are so few of them, they had the opportunity to spend a good amount of time playing each game. The most popular exergames with this group were DDR, Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout and Active Life: Outdoor Challenge.
We also had one student try out wearing an “Omron Go Smart: The Pedometer With a Brain” for and hour so that we could track his steps, calories burned, grams of fat burned, and miles walked during the exergaming session. We needed the students weight to input his data and he gave us his estimate so based on that the Omron calculated that he walked 2013 steps, which is .88 mile, he burned 39 calories and 2.1 grams of fat. During the hour the student wore the Omron, he played Yourself Fitness and Eye Toy Kinetic on the Play station 2, Let’s Yoga on the DS, and Wii Fit on the Wii.
We are going to try it out again with more students on Thursday, which will be another exergaming day. I hope to have them wearing it while engaged in more intense exergames to see how it compares to today’s data.
This group seems to be putting a lot of thought into their blog answers and I look forward to what the rest of the week will bring.
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