Five question start up.

Culminating Activity

Part One “Five Questions”

1. As previously posted on this blog, I will select “Diet” as my topic for this Culminating Activity this time. I’m going to try to improve my diet by going as “gluten free” as I can. I will also mention what it is that I am doing to continue my physical fitness. I’m going to set up the blog so that my students, (and my boss - Hi Ric!) can read about my progress. It is this way that I think I am engaging both myself and the students in learning.

2. I am going to form the entries in this manner: Start off with what ever it was that I did that day as a workout. I’m going to try and get three or four workouts a week. With rugby, running and bodyweight/home gym/ kettlebell workouts being the primary way I’m going to get these done. I may get to the Oakville YMCA once in a while, but I kind of doubt it. I’m just too busy to get there to workout.

I will continue the posts describing and linking to sites that I find that support and explain and further inform me and readers of the blog about food that is gluten free and other ideas that surround gluten free diets. In order to not forget, I will also put any helpful websites I find on the list of links to the right of the blog.

I will try and post pictures of the food I prepare (I will have a camera in the kitchen with batteries) and get those up when I can. I may have to edit as I go. My knowledge of iPhoto is going to help me here.

3 I am going to do this Activity for the next 21 days straight. I will be done exactly three weeks from now, which as I look at iCal, says May 6. For this reason, therefore, it will require me to keep up posting on the weekends as on weekdays. That is to say, I will keep this blog daily for the next 21 days and get this done and out of the way. I got too much stuff to just do week days and mess around like that. I may have to take written notes and/or notes on my laptop as I go and then post later, but I should be able to have a post for every day.

4 This being a blog for a classroom activity, I will have to limit my pictures and artwork to things for which I own the copyright and places like Creative Commons and Picasa. Those two websites are pretty good; with search engines and copyright free material. As I mentioned earlier, I will try and keep taking pics of the food I prepare (might be gross, might be cool. At least you’ll see the BBQ in my backyard, perhaps even my attempts at getting my “garden of stuff I eat” up and running). I like tomatoes, especially ones which come from my backyard.

5. I am going to keep the blog up to date. More than likely it will be one day behind most of the time, in that I will write about the previous day’s “stuff”; workouts, research, recipes and anecdotal notes about reactions from me and my family the following day.

This may affect what I can get done; my memory isn’t quite what it used to be, but I know I enjoy writing, so I think I can get through it with the help of my Macbook and my fingers. I will also start and keep a separate “rough draft” on the hard drive of this Macbook, which I will be backing up on my home external hard drive once or twice a week.

I heart Time Machine. It just makes backing stuff up soooooo much easier, man. Fer real!