- What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century? – 40 years ago(being able to read), now – its is reading writing, all on paper but moving into more technology aspects, but being able to understand whats safe and other things like that.
- literacy means being able to consume and produce the media forms of the day   – Jason Ohler   (being able to understand and safely using technology)
- great things on Youtube but students are not a loud to use it.
- Twitter #factcheck, text google, text chacha
- library – google – text google – google app (android)

- WolframAlfa
- Its not what you know its who you know, and you can be much smarter and get more done if you are able to connect to these ppl
- So why are we still asking kids to look up facts and write reports?

Then I realized that maybe if I don’t have enough time to leave the house that maybe I could bring the gym to me. I ended up buying myself a sit up bench and every night before I went to bed I would try to do at least 40-50 crunches. Even though this wasn’t much I was still able to do something physical. Eventually I bought the P90X workout series DVD’s and started with those. I have only had them for about a week and I have only done 2 workouts, but I am still trying to get back int the groove. I am hoping that by the end of next week I will be able to have a routine worked out.

This process was great for me, I was able to find different types of activities that worked well for me. I found activities that allowed me to just relax and not worry about anything else. It also gave me time to think, most of the time throughout the day I am jut all over th place, my mind is going crazy. With this process though I have been able to find things like yoga, the olyptical, and aquasize that allow me to slow down and think about one thing at a time. With these activities I am able to think things through and relax.

Originally my end goal was to do a triathlon at the YMCA. However, I was unable to follow through with this. With how busy I was I didn’t have time to do the amount of workouts that I had wanted to, so when it came time to do the triathlon I wasn’t prepared. Instead I decided to use a my cheerleading tryouts as a base point.

I was a cheerleader for a year and then I blew out my knee and wasn’t able to do anymore physical activity. Now that my knee is better I wanted to use my cheer tryouts to see if what I was doing was helping me to get back to where I used to be. My cheerleading tryouts are on April 30th, this is where I hope to be at the same physical health that I was a year ago, hopefully even better.

As for the professional aspect, I feel that I am a lot more knowledgable now that I have taken the time to explore. This process allowed me to explore many different styles and types of workouts. It helped me realize what activities allow me to relax and which ones give me a hard, intense workout. I have also realized that working out is my safe place. It is a place where I am able to forget about everything if I want to and just enter into my own world.

I feel that this experience has helped me immensely on a professional standpoint. I now know that if I am ever stressed or need time for myself that I will need to fit some type of physical activity into my day. Whether it is going for a jog or doing a workout video at home, I need to fit it in to balance out my life.

As a teacher, with all of this new knowledge about how physical activity makes me feel, I now feel that I know enough to bring it into my classroom or an after school program.  I think that all students should be given the opportunity to experience as many different things as possible. If you don’t ever experience it how will you know how it makes you feel or if you enjoy it or not. A lot of people shy away from things like this because they are unknown to them and they might be scared, so by including these kinds of things into our students lives at an early age, when they get older they will have already experienced it and won’t have that initial worry about trying something new. 

I want to be their for my students and give them every experience that I possibly can to improve their physical health. With the way our society is shifting these days, I am almost worried for the health of our future, this is why I want to be able to help out at the younger ages.

I’m sure that there are different yoga workouts out there that are a lot easier and more relaxing but the P90X video was a lot of work. Even though it was a lot of work I really enjoyed it. I was able to get the stretch that I was looking for as well as a bit more strengthening for my arms and legs. I plan on doing as much of this work out everyday right when I wake up and right before I go to bed. Even if I am only able to make it through 15 minutes of it, it will still be beneficial.

I would love to use something like this in my classroom or afterschool program. A lot of students are stressed or are too busy to find time to relax. So whether it is an entire yoga workout that we do or just a sunsaluation I plan to incorporate it into the class to try to help relieve some of the stress.

I know that I might run into some issues where the boys feel that this is boring and something girls do, I know this because my boyfriend feels the same way. After watching the whole video my boyfriend decided that he probably couldn’t do half the stuff that was on it. Like I said even though this type of workout looks very relaxing it is also very strenuous.