Lesson #3: Health, Wellness, and Technology

I love the idea of combining exercise and video games. Separately I really don't enjoy either (Rock Band might be the exception), but together they are like a Reese's peanut butter cup. I've played Wii tennis, bowling, and golf. The workout is fantastic provided you don't injure yourself. The first time I played my right shoulder hurt for a week. I read an article about the use of Wii in retirement homes. Here's a link: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2008-05-14-wii-retirement-medical-centers_N.htm

On Nutrition Data I looked up my favorite Starbucks beverage, a Grande Peppermint Mocha. WOW! Without whipped cream this drink has 312 Calories, 13 grams of Fat, and 44 mg. of Cholesterol! The good news is that I can order it with non-fat milk reducing the Calories to 232, Fat to 2 grams, and Cholesterol to 8 mg. That sounds much better.

RSS Feeds

At first this week's exercise sort of fried my brain, but once I followed the directions and started adding my RSS Feeds the smoke started to clear. Some of my feeds were added by searching for an RSS symbol on websites that interest me. That's how I added National Geographic, Real Simple, and The Onion in addition to Orange Slices and OCLS General Announcements. Then I went crazy adding feeds from the quick picks like Daily Dose of Imagery (thanks iguanamom!), Best Week Ever, Daily Show Videos, Weather for Orlando, Word of the Day, PETA, and Rotten Tomatoes. I really wanted to get the comic strip Cathy but I guess it's no longer available.

As for searching on Grokker, I looked up aloe plants because mine is quickly dying. I definitely prefer the map view because it's more fun to navigate. By searching I was able to determine that my aloe plant is suffering from a bad case of sunburn- ouch! Quite ironic considering aloe is used to soothe a sunburn.

As stated in my last post I am a kinesthetic learner, which is proving to benefit me throughout this course (so far).

This post is dedicated to Cathy- the best comic strip ever created!