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Hi there, its me Toni!
How're you doing? I hope you got off to a good start and you're ready to succeed
in this course. I've already communicated with many of you. I've read your
introduction
discussion, your first little mini assignment. where you tell me a little bit about you.
And once those are graded, make sure you go back into the grade book and find my
comments and your points.
Now we are getting started by
diving right into our health book and our first concepts.
So please make sure you review - if you hear that noise, its my cats fighting -
Please make sure you review the module
2 and that you read the first chapter in your book.
Our chapters are not always sequential but right now you are going to start out wth
chapter one.
There are some other activities for you to do in the module and things I want you to
read.
There are some handouts. There is at least one assessment that you need to do.
You will find out in model 1 that you have a "Challenge" to take.
And you have the first written assignment. Its your behavior change
part 1 which you will turn in through Blackboard.
I want you to write this in Word and if you use another system for
writing your documents you need to save it as an RTF "a rich text format"
file.
There's instructions for that in module two.
So please make sure that when you save your
papers, your document files, you save as
.doc, .docx - which are Word -
or you save them as an RTF file. That way I can open them.
If you save in Word Perfect or WordPad
- those other ones - I may not be able to open those and your paper is going to end up being
late
because it takes a lot of my time to email you back or message you back
and let you know that I can't open your documents. A then they're late.
Okay so make sure you submit to me your documents correctly the first time
Also, you want to submit everything, whether it be a discussion or a paper, at
least 24 to 48 hours in advance. Just make that your habit. If you wanted the
weekend to do things, and you see that most of our activities are due on
Thursdays,
well if you want the weekend to do things, you need to use the preceding weekend,
the weekend before things are due. You need to work on the weekend several
days before the things are due so that you can use the weekend.
And the way I set up the class you can do that because we just
get started lightly on the first week and a half of the semester. And then
now here we are coming up on our third week
and so you can use that one weekend before the behavior change paper is due to write
your paper
and to complete model 2 so that you
don't wait until the last minute. Because what happens when you wait to the last
minute?
People end up attaching the wrong file and then it is late. And they go "But I asked
you at 11:55 if I could
send you a document" or "I sent it by email". I don't accept papers by email.
They get lost there and it's not my job to turn them into Blackboard.
And it helps me stay organized with all the students if I can find the papers in
the right place.
So if you do you figure out that you attached the wrong file,
you can message me and I will go in and I will let you attaching it one more time
as the correct file but then the papers probably going to be late.
Be really careful with this, OK? I want to read your paper, the first
paper that you attach and I want you to do good in this class.
So pay attention to the behavior change instructions because this is
something you're going to be working on the whole semester.
Students really like doing their behavior change.
You're gonna pick an area of health and you are going to design a goal.
Maybe you not exercising right now and you are going to start walking
30 minutes a day three times a week - that's reasonable right?
Or maybe you hardly eat any vegetables and you are going to start with the one serving
three times a week - that's reasonable
and that will help you improve your level of wellness. Or maybe you need to start
doing some type of stress reduction
technique, a relaxing technique or time management.
So maybe you are going to work on that. But, whatever your behavior change is it needs to be
measurable.
You can't just say you want to be healthier or that you want to eat better - that's great
but how do you know you are doing it? You need to be able to measure it. It needs to
be realistic
But it still needs to improve the level wellness least a little bit
be something you can practice at least twice a week. Also,
it's a great idea if you're behavior change can be written in a positive way.
For example, let's say you go to fast-food five days a week
you can say "I will only go to fast-food once a week". Well you could say that but what
could you do in your life or in your diet planning
so that you will eat less fast food. So, a positive way to write this goal
is "I will make my own lunch
three times a week" or" I will eat dinner at home
three times a week". OK? Because those kind of goals
reduce the number of chances and your need of going to MacDonalds or
whatever fast-food chain might be going to. Alright?
You've got to put some energy into it. It's not a big paper
and you can kind of do an essay form or you can just
number each item and write complete sentences.
The first one is just your goal - what is your goal sentence? That is the first part of
that project.
Then you going to tell me what strategies need to do for success.
What is your reward? Are going to have group support people around you that are
going to support you?
It's a really neat journey and you might find other people start
following it along with you. Okay, so have a great week
and I will talk to you again soon. Make sure you complete your module this week and
submit that behavior change paper.
Thanks. Yours in health.