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.

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       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.   

 

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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.

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         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.