How to make a task card

How to Make a Task Card?

Step 1

Find the images you would like to turn into task card
By either recording yourself or finding a professional video online, take screenshots of the phases you want to cut out (remember there are 5 phases, look at examples bellow)
Once you have the images you want to cut out, open the Apple Images app (iOS 17 and above suggested), or use a different photoshop software
Once looking at the image, click and hold on the thing you would like to cut out (the person doing the sport or skill)
This should prompt a pop up and white line running around the item you clicked on to cut out
click copy once the prompt pops up, this may take a few attempts, visit apples website for more help
- - - - https://support.apple.com/en-ca/102460

Step 2

Next, open the Google Slides template linked below, and make a copy so that you can edit and put in your own images
Paste your images one by one into the Google Slides you now have access to
The image tool doesn't always capture blurry features like rackets and other objects attached to a person's body. You may have to make some final additions to your photo once you have it pasted to make it look more professional like adding in a ball or implement by search for a transparent image of the object required.
- - See example google slide
  - Here is Google slide template with transparent images of objects that can be copied and used.

Step 3

The next steps are all about the peer teaching portion of the task card, utilizing the images you have just selected, how will students teach each other this skill? In other words what task progression will they do to help practice and give feedback to one another on the skill?

Write out the description of each phase of the skill using proper language for the level you are teaching too
Remember that less can sometimes be more, the idea isn't to have students sitting and reading, we want them learning through play
Utilize the fundamental skill charts (see video using tennis as example) to help make the descriptions of each phase, if your sport is not one of the charts, then ask experts for their input or draw on on-line sources like Sikana (Sikana is an educational movement that democratizes practical knowledge by creating and sharing basic skills videos for free).
- - - Skill fundamental charts

Step 4

This step involves making a modified game that the students can do to practice the skill you asking them to work on in the images
The modified games you can make up using your own expertise but we ask that you follow the format bellow, again a link to the blank template is above in step 2

Step 5

This step involves making an exaggeration game, the template for this is below, it is not directly linked to having your students teach themselves, this is meant to be used after the students come back from peer teaching, and you can now see how well they have improved through an exaggeration game
The game design exaggerates a tactical problem that implies a skill based solution (use of task card) in the game, and uses tactical components of Space, Time, Force and Risk to help play the game to realize the tactical problem.
- Article explaining tactical concepts - Hopper, T., & Rhoades, J. (2022). Part 2 - Enactivism and learning to play tennis: Modification-by-adaptation enabling action spaces and nonconscious behavioral mimicry. Strategies, 35(6), 10–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/08924562.2022.2120748
- Video with tennis as the example explaining tactical concepts
Use this template to help make an exaggeration game

Step 6

This final step involves combining and exporting the Google Slides you have now created into one single PDF and submitting it to this website for approval
We invited you to add to our collection by sending your task card to ethanfagrie@gmail.com
- - - Please label the subject as "task card submission"
    - feel free to let us know your thoughts on the website and how we can make this better! Happy Teaching!