Day 9

Man ... awesome day.

This was yesterday, but still a good pic

We read a lot today.

We read until page 58 and got questions 1, 3, 4

Then we read until page 75 1,2, 4, 8

Then.... I showed you the Task Two poster assignment ... well, at least most saw the assignment at the front of the class and in your notebook. It's due soon. You should look at the due dates.

In any case, we ended with reading.... again. We finished until page 108 and got questions 1, 4 and 6.

April 9 - Day 8

Right. Today. We finished watching the film "Forks over Knives".

Questions are due the day after the film, so make that happen.

After that, we got the Culminating Activity / Final assessment for this course. It is asking people to keep an online blog for 21 days to help them get to a better place with their health.

Yeah, it's a big ask.

In any case, that took us to break. After, we got to Skype with a fitness professional from Vancouver, Christopher Reed. I had sent the questions ahead of time, and so after a few jokes to start, we got to them. A write up of the conversation is due with the Unit Two Journal, April 16th.

After that, we got a chance to get things started. A lot of stuff is coming due, and so ... I need to give you a chance in class to get them done. So ... do them already.

Oh yeah, during the conversation, a mention of the Tgu Toner (misspelled on purpose) was made and in order to slowly work my way up to an explanation of that product, I showed this video of Jimmy Kimmel:

Friday and Monday Day 6 and 7

Whew!

Finally getting caught up on this blog. Man, I jsut don't normally get behind, but that is what's happeneing here.

I will do better.

On Friday we were watching Super Size Me - the link is under the Unit Two links for those who missed it. We managed to finish it while I was away for the last little bit of the class.

On Monday, we started with a bit of watching Forks over Knives ...  a great documentary about a way to improve your health by eating better food. Lots of ideas are controversial in that film, but it's at least worthy of asking questions about what you eat.

In addition to that, we also did a chart of Vitamins, based on the ideas in and around page 90 in the text book. Extra copies are in the box at the front of the room. It was awesome, and people learned a lot.

Including that "alot" isn't a real word. "a space lot" is the way it is. A lot.

Day 5

A laid back day - well, at least for me.

We had a Unit Test for Unit One today. OOOOOH Scary, kids.

After students were done, they were asked to hand in their Journal for Unit one, too. I got a fair number, but more are needed. As students worked away on that, I also got some to work on their Family Health Histories - as a part of Task Three in this Unit.

I did have Unit Two ready to go, but didn't get a chance to hand it out, as some of the "Factor" presentations for this unit got done, too.

Tomorrow: the last of the presentations and start Unit Two along with doing a bit more on the APA Style report for Tuesday.

Woot!

mmmmmm ... good eats!

Day 4

Ah ...Wednesdays... usually, the middle of the week, this week ... end of the first half of the week.

Awesome.

We started today with doing some reading from the text book - questions for all readings are now up on the right hand side of the blog.

After that, we spent some time on the class blog, looking at the Family Health History website and the really big assignemtn on it.

We also took a look at the Cheap APA Style Report, too

After that, we got a chance to complete the work that is due tomorrow.

Day three

A visual representation of my class today.

Hmm ... going to have to find out what happened to Day Two... interesting.

In any case, today was one with a lot of hurdles. For one, the school was completely cut off from the internet. Not a single internet connection worked. Made for a lot less interesting stuff to do in my class. I did speak / bug the school IT guy about it. Of course it wasn't his fault, but I felt like poking fun at him a little.

In class, we read from the text book, twice, getting questions on page 32 and 36 for homework. A complete list will be published on this blog tomorrow.

I did also speak very briefly about the Family Health History/"Task Three" (I showed a semi-complete one I had save on my hard drive from two years ago) and took names and topics from the short "Factor" presentation due for Task Two.

After that, we did homework and I nagged people about being in class and not lining up by the door.

Day One

Well, recapping today ... what a day one.

We went through the rather long winded speech by Chesser about the rules, the class and what he's expecting while in the classroom.

Then, we read from the text until page 9 and got questions on page 9 for homework - 2, 3, 5 and 7.

...and then we got the terms for Unit one and then got a web quest of 15 questions to get done.

So ... get it done!