Back when most of us were in high school, our Phys Ed teachers preached against sedentary lifestyles and warned us that playing video games would lead to obesity.

Times have changed. Konami attended this week what they call "one of the largest gatherings of health and physical educators in the nation" to encourage use of their popular Dance Dance Revolution product. According to a company press release, Konami wants to teach teachers how DDR can contribute to physical health, a line that at least one state (West Virginia) evidently believed enough to make DDR a part of the public school curriculum.

That's cool and all, but what we're more excited about is the inevitable flood of Youtube and Google videos created by mean kids using cell phone cameras to record clumsy classmates tripping over themselves on DDR pads.

Click "read" for the full press release.

[Update 1: Thanks for the sweet link, Radjago! Check it out, folks, in paragraph three.]