Health, Wellness, and Technology... oh, my!

This weeks lesson was great. It gave a lot of wonderful information. I know that for me, exercising is not labeled as 'fun' and I usually get bored (but mostly lazy) when it comes to exercising. This week's blog gave me some ideas on how to make it more interesting. Wii is definitely awesome, but I never considered the games as exercise. They do have a new 'game' out called Wii Fit that I have been wanting, but just like the console, it's impossible to find. I have also been intrigued with the Nike/iPod connection since it came out. Unfortunately, I'm not much of a runner, so I highly doubt I'll put the concept into use.

I haven't yet, but when I get home I'll probably check out the MP3 based workouts and see if any would work for me.

Until next time...

Learn 2.1

Well here we are again. I'm excited to get Learn 2.1 rolling. I enjoyed learning Learn 2.0 last year and I'm hoping that Learn 2.1 will have the same, if not more, to offer.

I'm not much of a blogger, but I do like to explore other blogs from time to time. The video that Tom put up, "Blogging in Plain English," was neat-o and it helped to iterate what I like best about blogging. That being, it is a community where bloggers go to each others' blogs and read them, comment them, and even link back to those entries on their own blogs.

I downloaded Google Chrome and am already intrigued. It gives you a visual list of your most visited sites.

I suppose that's it for this week. Now I need to go and try to get these blogging songs out of my head.

How Will I Use My MP3 Player...

I want to play music as well as put audio books on it. It's quite a convenient piece of technology and I'm excited to get it.

I listened to Chuck Klosterman's IV. Hilarious.

Wait... this is technically the last week of Learn 2.0, right? Woot!

Flickr Pictures

I uploaded 2 pictures onto Flickr. One is of our lockers and another is of the 3rd floor workroom.

Music

Loved Liveplasma. Even though the website didn't recognize some of the bands I chose (I really didn't think it would), I was pleasently surprised to see that it did recognize others. It's always fun to find new artists.

I tried the Springwidgets and Yourminis, but I still don't really understand the point of them. Except for the fact that you can make your own website, well, sort of. It's not even entertaining to play around with them. So, obviously, I didn't sign up for either website.

Only a couple more weeks of Learn 2.0 to go!

Lesson 8

Flickr is interesting. I wouldn't like to put up personal photos of mine on the internet for everyone to see. I already have a photobucket account too, which is pretty much the same idea. I'm not able to take any pictures right now, but this coming week my dempartment will take some so we can upload them for the lesson.

I tried the prototype page, but I'm not really sure what the point of it is though. It's kind of, well, boring. The doggy is fun though.

Lesson 7

Lesson 7 was fun. It's always nice to find new websites to play around on. I registered my dog on Dogster, but I couldn't upload the picture for some reason. I'll have to fiddle around with it.