Tips

      Since I’ve already stated why I chose this topic, the benefits of the healthier life, my goals, healthy snacks, and memberships something that I feel I am missing is tips. Everybody loves to have some extra information that can benefit them and these are some perfect examples.

•  Raise your breathing and heart rates and that strengthen your muscles.
• Help kids and teens be active for at least 1 hour a day. Include activities that raise their breathing and heart rates and that strengthen their muscles and bones.

·         Don't keep junk food in the house. You cannot eat what isn't there.

·         Drink water or diet soda instead of snacking.

·         Move – not only will you not be snacking, but you will also be burning calories. Go for a walk.

·         Watch your food portions - resolve never to "super size".

·         Got a sweet tooth? Try sugar-free gum, sugar-free hard candy, etc.

·         Cut back on or cut out caloric drinks such as soda, sweet tea, lemonade, etc. If you have a 20-oz bottle of cola every day, switch to diet cola. Or better yet switch to water and use sugar-free flavours to add some zest to the water.

·         Use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate.

·         Start eating breakfast. It helps you eat fewer total calories throughout the day.

·         Add just one fruit or veggie serving daily. Get comfortable with that and then add an extra serving and so on until you reach the recommended Canada Food Guide suggestions.

                                

These are all tips and hits that not only myself but everyone should taking into consideration when wanting to start living a healthier lifestyle. Something that I need to remember is that changes don’t happen overnight and if I really want to follow through with this healthy lifestyle I am going to change to be peasant. I believe it was also a good idea to start this kind of a change now before I get to university because it would be a lot easily to start now then it would to start later.

Snacking

        Eating a healthy lunch and dinner is not something that I normally struggle with, but being someone that can literally eat all day….. Snacking has become a problem. When I’m hungry between  meals which is always I tend to go for the things that I can just quickly get my hands on, some snacks may include cookies, granola bars, pizza, candy and my most favorite CHIPS. With that said I think that snacking is one of my weaknesses and is something I want to work on so that I can become a healthier individual.   

Bad snacking

After doing some research on how I can substitute my unhealthy snacks for healthier snack this is what I was able to find.  

·         Fresh fruit or individually packed containers of cut-up fruit.

·         Raw vegetables including carrots, peppers, zucchini, cherry or grape tomatoes.

·         Baby carrots and whole wheat pita triangles with hummus.

·         Pumpernickel bagel with peanut butter and banana.

·         Fresh, frozen or canned fruit with low fat yogurt or in a smoothie.

·         Sweet red, yellow or green peppers and bread sticks with salad dressing or low fat dip.

·         Whole wheat tortilla wrap made with salmon or tuna and salad dressing, onions, celery and green peppers.

·         English muffin with melted cheese and apple slices.

·         Dry mixed cereal and a container of milk.

·         Dark green leafy salad with orange sections and almonds.

·         Nuts, pumpkin or sunflower seeds.

·         Plain popcorn.

·         Popsicles made with 100% fruit juice or yogurt.

·         Water, milk, fortified soy beverage or 100% fruit juice.

All of the snacks listed above are foods I would actually eat, I just need to get into the habit of making food instead of just grabbing what’s around me and that Is something I am going to work on.

Memberships???

        Since I am student and I am going to university next year I don’t think that getting a membership to a gym is something that I can benefit off of, but I did happen to find so alternate ideas that I could do instead of getting a member ship. Since summer is just around the corner it I very good idea that I take full advantage of good life’s free summer for teens.  The program is be made available seven days a week, between 8am to 4pm, with the last check-in at 3pm at each club. It is also said that teens will have full club access with the following exceptions: tanning, pool, sauna, whirlpools, certain free weights/machines and Hot Yoga. This programs is something that I hope to take advantage off.

          Another program that I looked into that I personally enjoy is hot yoga. http://mykula.ca/ The link posted is too a yoga studio called Kula that is located close to my house which makes to accessible for me to walk to in the summer. This studio offers 30 days for 30 dollar, being an affordable price and also having the convince of being located near my house Kula is something that I will definitely have to check out for the summer. When starting this healthy living goal I thought that maybe it would be difficult since I don’t want to commit to any gyms or memberships, but after doing my research there are many other affordable programs I can enroll myself in without signing a contract.      

When starting something new I think it’s important to make some kind of goals or guide lines for yourself so that you don’t get lost and you remember what it is you’re pushing for. Thinking about what goals I could make for myself that involve healthy living was a little bit tricky at first, but then I realized that my goals are very general.  Some of the goals I made for myself consist of…..1) cut back on the unhealthy snacks and replace them with healthy foods. 2) Exercise at least twice a week. 3) Join soccer for the summer. 4) Go to good life in the summer. 5) think positive.

             With those being some of the goal I made for myself I could say they are very basic but that’s because I’m not trying to do anything crazy, I would just like to follow that basic step to becoming a healthier individual. These goals aren’t just short term goal either, I hope that eighty years from now I can be still following these goals and adding new ones every year so that I can benefit of off these goals as much as possible. The goals that I made today aren’t set in stone either, if I feel as if something isn’t working I will be able to add and change them to my preference which is the overall advantage of doing something for you. This really isn’t something that I have to put too much work into so that I can get good result so I am excited to try out my new goals to see what might happen.    

Why i chose this topic for my PLN.....

         I chose the topic healthy living for my PLN because I feel as if it’s something that I need to work on and start to enroll myself in every day.  Although I don’t have any type of weight issues or anything like that I feel as if it’s still important to be eating healthy foods and it’s still important to be getting your daily exercise. I’ll admit I don’t eat healthy and I don’t get my daily exercise but I believe this summer is a perfect opportunity to start my new ways before I go off to university.  Another reason why I chose this topic is because I would like to live a long happy healthy life. With that said these are some of the benefit of living a healthy life that I could think of, it reduces your risk of dying prematurely, Reduces your risk of dying prematurely from heart disease, Reduces your risk of developing diabetes, Reduces your risk of developing high blood pressure, Helps control your weight, Helps you build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints, Promotes psychological well-being.

            Although this area isn’t really something I could say I have a lot of awareness or experiences in I am able to say I am trying and that this Is exactly why I am doing healthy living for my PLN. Hopefully after I have completed all my research needed for my PLN I able to become more aware of what’s needed to change my daily routine for the better and what’s needed to switch my current bad habits for good ones that will later on benefit me in the future. When I have completed my PLN I hope that it just doesn’t stop there.  

This picture represents some of the habits I would like to enroll myself into so that I can get the best results.

itune 3

       The two lectures that I have chosen to do on iTunes both had to do with psychology. I chose to do psychology because it is something that has interested me throughout my high school years and will later on study as a minor in university.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/psychology-1-001-fall-2010/id391539320 is the link to the first lecture that I got through on general psychology. This lecture basically gives a brief description of the following, the human mind, along with such aspects of mind as perception, cognition, emotion, and behavior.  Although I believed that I had a decent general understanding of psychology I did learn some new interesting fact that I didn’t know before.

The second lecture that I decided to look at was on human happiness. http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/psychology-156-fall-2008-uc/id354824220 that been the link of this lecture.  Some new interesting things that I did not know before about human happiness are the following. To be happy is the pursuit of any normal human being. Compared to sadness, happiness breeds an atmosphere of joy and strength that sustains and energizes us. I have also learned that happiness doesn’t come from what we have in comes from the confidence we have within us.

Overall I believe that it is important to have a good background understand of what you might be taken later on in your future and that is exactly why I chose to listen to these two lectures on psychology. It is never bad to have too much knowledge and it is never bad to greater your understanding of something that may later on be you career for life and that is exactly what I believe I did today.   

 

itunes 4

As technology has changed for the better so does the teaching and learning methods of universities and colleges. With time everything has to chance because new techniques are discovered to enhance the old ones, so that’s what I believe is taking place in today’s society. Universities and colleges are going in this type of technology route because it’s easier for the students to learn and it’s a different type of teaching technic for the professors. I also believe that universities and colleges are going in this type of route because when the student graduate from the post-secondary school and go into the work force their not going to be too far behind in the technology field with all their experiences in their previous years.

The type of possible advantages for the students has something to do with what I just stated, and that is that they have that advantage when they go to their future jobs. They have an advantage over all the other people that don’t have this type of technology taught in their post-secondary years, giving todays people a better opportunity to get hired. New technology has defiantly sky rocketed from what it previously was many years ago, and like people say some things change for bad and some things change for good and the technology has definitely changed for good. Technology is something that gives people an opportunity to learn for free, to learn bigger and better things and lastly to give people an opportunity to get ahead.

always learning

         Looking forward at new technology today I think it’s safe to say that it has come a far way over the past years. This new type of always leaning is basically all new to me; although I am still young and I really should be all up-to-date with this new type of technology it sad to say… unfortunately I am not. With that said I am still learning and this upgrade course has been an eye opener for me, before this course I really didn’t like using technology that much beside my cellphone I really didn’t have any interest in technology and I really didn’t want to learn. Some advantages of technology today Is that a lot of it you can do for free which is a plus, you can watch movies, learn math lesson, download software and many more interesting new things that your probably never heard about all for free. Learning about the internet isn’t an overnight kind of thing, I am literally learning new things and about using the internet every day and each day I am getting better than I was the day before.   To stay up-to-date on this new always learning technology you need to been spending a lot of your time learning new things and some people don’t have that type of time, so if you are a  relatively busy person that could be a possible negative thing going for you.  I can’t really think of any cost reduction but that’s probably because I am not that involved with the new technology these day, but if I was forty years old with a full time job I’m sure that I could think of some cost reductions that could be made. Overall I think that the always learned and evolving technology is a positive thing for today’s society because of all the successful outcomes are society has had.    

ALWAYS LEARNING

           

Khan Academy

           Khan Academy was totally something new to me until about a month ago when a friend told me all about it and how it works. Although I have never used khan Academy or any online system before but looking back I wish I knew about this kind of learning system earlier. Last semester I was enrolled in data class and had some trouble understanding everything about it, especially when I missed a couple days of school here and there. Looking back I wish I was aware of khan academy  to teach me about the subjects I didn’t get too clearly or to teach me about  the lessons I missed out on. Khan Academy looks generally simple to use everything on the same page and it not to cluttered, plus it seems to have every subject with every kind of lesson on it which is convenient to everyone even parents.  Another positive thing about khan academy is that its free, some people don’t have the money to spend on tutors and other kinds of help especially when you’re paying for your own education. So the fact that you can go online type in what you want to learn about watch it whenever you want and it’s free makes Khan Academy different from anything else I have ever heard about. Although I probably won’t use Khan Academy throughout my high school years I think when I get off to university it will probably be more helpful to me especially since most of it is online anyways. Overall I think that Khan Academy is an excellent problem to help people of all ages to learn and get a better education for free at any time of the day, I believe that this will be a successful program for many years to come.

http://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/gmat/data-sufficiency/v/gmat--data-sufficiency-1

I think that this would have been a lesson that would of helped me a semester ago      

Romeo and Juliet

After viewing the three different videos posted of Romeo and Juliet there were some automatic opinions on why there is such a major difference in the way the audiences perceive understanding of the major characters.  Starting off with the latest version which was released in 1996, I think the audience is able to perceive a greater understanding of the major characters because it is the most up to date and considered “todays” version of Romeo and Juliet. Being today’s version, the movie uses a more understandable diversity of the Shakespeare’s language, giving the audience a more overall understanding of the entire movie. With that being said, having the ability to achieve the full understanding of the movie you are simply able the perceive the major characters more easily due to the overall more up to date version of Romeo and Juliet.  The second video watched being released in 1968 has a bit of the newest version and the oldest version of Romeo and Juliet. From what I have viewed of the video clip posted, you can clearly see that they make it obviously who Romeo and Juliet are. With that being on the plus side you still need to consider that since it is a more dated version the Shakespearean language is a bit rougher to fully understand some of the other less major character that still play an important role in the overall movie of Romeo and Juliet. Finally the last video clip viewed was from 1954. Being the most dated version watched I believe that it would give the audience a harder time to fully understand the major characters, yet alone the overall movie. Since it is the oldest version the plot and language used are a lot more difficult for not only myself but the audience to understand. With the overall understanding of the movie being rocky I believe it makes a major difference in the way the audience perceives understanding of the major characters.  To be able to perceive the major characters I feel as if you need to be able to understand the plot of the movie first, and to do that you need to have a full understanding of the language that is being used. With each newer version of Romeo and Juliet being easier to understand I think it gives the audience a better understanding to perceive the major characters, and gives them a chance to see the major differences that a newer more up to date version gives you.

shakespeare blog post number three

Agree Or Disagree

1)After looking over the few tweet comments, points and ideas that were made there really wasn’t much to reflect back on due to the slight amount that was made. The tweet that I would say I strongly agree with was made by yourself being, cyber bullying is a crime. I agree with this particular tweet the most because being a teenager myself I would say that cyber bullying is something that can greatly affect an individual’s life in a negative way due to all the verbal tormenting and teasing. With all that said cyber bullying is an enormous crime because it results in teenage suicide daily, and everyone knows that taking the life of someone is in fact a crime and the instigator should be punished with the appropriate sentence. Besides that one particular tweet there wasn’t really any other tweets that I would say I strongly agree or disagree with.

 

2)  When studying a topic that you have an innate prejudice against a way to get your frustration out is to wait until you get the appropriate time to explain your reasoning. Sometimes a strong debate is a good way to get all your frustration out and give people the chance to disagree and agree with what’s being said. Another possible good way to get all your frustration out is writing about the topic in an upcoming essay so you can get all your thoughts and frustration out at once. A student can overcome a barrier like “I don’t like the way that class is being taught” by doing what I did at the beginning of this course. At the beginning of this course I quickly learned that this course is mostly online and has a lot to do with technology. Being a student that wants nothing to do with technology I automatically started to doubt my ability’s in succeeding in this particular course. After knowing that I needed this course and dropping out wasn’t an option I knew I had to look for the positive things to overcome the negative ones. Being a student that isn’t comfortable using computers I think that this was a good opportunity to get comfortable and prepared for my post-secondary years before paying tuition. Now that I am more comfortable using technology I believe that I have become a better student not only now but for the future years. The moral of this is to overshadow the negatives with the positives to overcome a bad barrier.

list of skills

               After reading this article I carefully went over the ten skills that were discussed, after going over everything I easily noticed what skills I have and don’t have.  The first skill listed being internet search was something I am not skilled in. Computer skills aren’t really my number one skill and everything computer related which brings up the second skill listed in the article which is office suite skills. Office suite skills consist of students being able to know how to create, edit, and modify documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. All those skilled need to be performed in the office by students is something I wouldn’t be able to complete by myself. Although all of the skills listed in this article have everything to do with using some form of internet, skipping to number five which is social media is a skill I would say I have.  How to properly use social media for school and work, how to protect yourself on it are all skills needed for the social media world are all skills needed for social media which I believe I have.  Skipping down to the very last skill being finding apps and software, it would be something that I consider also being good at. How to find, evaluate, and use apps for school and business ,also how to find quality, free alternatives to paid software, apps and services are all the skills needed for finding apps and software which being all skills that I am capable of doing. Going back up to number eight being hardware basics and troubleshooting which involves everything from antivirus, spam, phishing, too much personal information sharing, stalkers, and more are all issues they need to know about. All those skills listed above I don’t feel that I am practically good at. The skills listed in this article pretty much all have something to do with computers and technology. With that being said I believe that technology is something I am overall skilled in, which makes it pretty hard to find many skills that I am successfully talented in.

new techniques

              The independent study novel study that I have chosen to do was the twelfth Night by William new things Shakespeare. Since this is an independent study some things that I expect to get out of this play is the following. Starting off I will have to do some major background research, looking up summaries of the play and online novel‘s to study from, other study’s that I may come across might be online video’s and any book’s that I might be able to come across. Most if not all of the research that I come across will be done online due to the fact that it’s convenient for me and it’s up to date. To study the information that I collect from the online website’s I will highlight or copy and paste the important information that I have come across and save it on a separate document so that when I need to be reminded of something it is right at my fingertips. Other things that I can do are take old fashion notes on paper to keep them handy or maybe invest in watching YouTube videos about my play to gather more information that may be important to me in the end. Going into this independent study I truly don’t know what to expect or get out of this because thought out my high school years I have not had much luck with all of the Shakespeare’s plays I have done. Knowing that I have to read the play and do everything independently make’s me a tad scared because understanding Shakespeare’s language is not my number one forte.  As of discovering new things about my novel study some things that I hope to take out of this project are, a better overall understanding of the play then I have had with all the other Shakespeare play I have done. Also I hope to enjoy my novel and discover a new way of Shakespeare that I have not yet to discover before. Overall I think that I will learn several new techniques that involve new study, researches and discovering methods that will be helpful to me not only now but also in my future post-secondary years. Most importantly however I hope to discover a decent understand of the novel I have chosen to do.       

PLN

1.       A PLN is a personal learning network, it is a mutual network that you create to learn from, connect with and gather information or resources. The goal is to learn more about a topic of interest and share what you have learned.  A PLN can occur in many online social networks.

2.       Three possible good elements of a PLN is too be able to keep up with social relations like friends and family. Another good element is to find people that share mutual interest with you and to be able to connect. Lastly another good element is to great sources of information that you may not of had before.   

3.       In my chosen secondary school a PLN may give me an advantage over others, in a way that having my PLN will allow me to connect and share with other educators in my felid of study.

4.       Some potential employers might think that having a PLN will helps them get to know your current interest and personality better than an ordinary interview might. It may also give an edge over the people who don’t have a current PLN.

5.       My current online footprint is not that employer friendly because a lot of the information on there in not something that I would want a future boss or employer to see. Something’s that I can improve to my online footprint is to monitor what is being portrayed about me, and to also think about making a new more up to date online footprint like a PLN.