The goal of my blog, Fit on a Budget, is to spread awareness of eating healthy and working out while on a budget. Personally, this has been a struggle for me, because I struggle with finding both the time and the money to eat healthy. Since my schedule is so busy, I usually just eat whatever I have access to, whether that be little snacks throughout the day that I've had, or something quick like a sub or something from a fast food place. My friend and roommate Kelly is a Health and Exercise major here at Rowan, so she will be helping me through my blogging experiences in healthy eating as well as working out.
The first blog post that I found related to my idea of "Fit on a Budget" was Balanced Bites. This blog is dedicated to many factors of balanced and healthy living, such as motivation, fats and oils, fatigue, staying on track, etc. This blog is full of information regarding living and eating healthy. This website, besides blog posts. contains recipes, workout books and videos, and podcasts on varying topics of health. This blog started in 2013, so it has been running for quite some time, with success. The second blog that I found interesting is Your Health is On Your Plate. Not only did this website offer tasty recipes, it also tells you the health benefits of each recipe! This blog is full of healthy recipes that actually look appealing. I like this blog because it helps me out with my blog as well. Since my blog is healthy eating, I can refer back to these recipes and make them any try them. The best part about this blog is that the recipes are relatively short - which means less $$ to spend on buying groceries! This blog is run by Dr. Roxanne Sukol, so her posts are very credible. This blog has been up and running since 2011 - six years! It is clear to see that readers are enjoying this blog and keep coming back. The third blog that I found and enjoyed is Food Insight. This blog is different than others, because to me, it feels more professional. What I mean by that is that the blog posts and information seems as if it is coming from a news source. On the top left, there is a picture of a foundation title, called "International Food Information Council Foundation." After seeing this, I did some research on what exactly this was, and why they have a blog. This program is a non-profit organization that writes and researches all about healthy eating and healthy living. Here is a link to the "About" page of this organization to learn moe about them. After researching about this website, it is clear that this blog is a credible source to information on health. Some examples of blog posts are "Foods that Promote Cardiovascular Health", and "5 Nutrition and Safety Pregnancy Myths," as well as "Process Contaminants: An Expert Perspective." This website offers so much information not only about healthy eating, but other health benefits. This blog is already bookmarked to my Chrome page, and I will be checking it constantly even after my niche blog is done.
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As the world neared the end of the millennium, both mobile phone networks and the Internet continued to expand on a global basis at an unprecedented rate—a fact not lost on the participants in the study. And while such growth continued to favor many of the wealthy industrialized countries, cell phone networks, the advent of prepaid calling cards, and mobile phone plans had begun to link populations in other countries as well. Digital literacies have become increasingly popular in recent times. Berry, Hawisher, and Selfe wrote about people outside of the United States, and how they incorporate digital literacies into their daily lives. The book explains how people communicate with digital literacy transnationally. The quote above intrigued me, because it made me think of how rapid the growth of digital literacy was when I was growing up. The first thing I can look back on based on my digital literacy experience is my first screen name/e-mail. All of my friends had a screen name, and I wanted one so badly just to instant message them. This experience was so new and exciting to me, I would spend hours on my home computer instant messaging everybody. Then, I got my first cell phone which really changed the digital literacy world for me. The screen name was sort of a side-hobby that I had - it wasn't around all the time for me to constantly use. Then, I got my first cell phone, and suddenly I needed everybody's cell phone number and needed to have it around me all the time. In a weird way, I can say that getting my first cell phone has changed my life, because ever since that day, I have not been without one. Now, my life practically revolves around my cell phone. Last year, my phone broke and I needed to wait two days for one, and I felt as if I was disconnected from the world. I could not text my friends, call my parents, or go on any social media. It was an awakening to see how attached I was to my phone. It also surprised me, in those two days, how many times during homework I would go to reach for my phone to distract myself. On the plus side, I can confidently say that I did my homework in much less time than I would with my cell phone.
Digital literacy is all around me. From my Facebook, to my twitter account, Instagram, and snapchat. All of these apps connect me to the world through digital literacy. My generation is living proof of the quote above; the rapid increase in mobile phone and internet networks. Now, wherever you go, there is always somebody either texting, or talking on the phone. Even my niece, who is now three and a half, asks to play on my sister's iPad, and even knows how to scroll through youtube to watch cat videos. There is no way to escape any sort of digital literacy in today's age. Thinking about the Digital Literacy Narrative, I have come up with three ideas that I want to base my narrative around:
1. My first idea is to discuss when I got my first phone ever in fifth grade. I will discuss the process of getting my phone, the feeling of responsibility and excitement that I felt, and the way that having a cell phone has shaped my life ever since that moment. 2. My second idea would be to discuss how social media has changed over the years, both involving my use, and the overall views of social media. I will compare my use to my first social media site, then compare that to how social media affects both myself and everyone around me. 3. My third idea is to discuss the first time I learned to type in elementary school. Back then, I would have computer class on an old computer, and learned how to type in a certain way. Now, it is almost engraved in children's brain as soon as they first use a computer. I will compare and contrast the differences between learning to type then and now. Digital literacy has become more and more evident as the years have passed. Everything and anything is online, including news articles, social media pages, television shows, movies, and so forth. Technology has made a huge impact on the world, and many people, like myself, feel that they cannot live without it. Rhinegold first discusses the issues that society has with digital literacy, and how some people have not learned how to control the uses of technology. Rhinegold then goes on to say that if society learns how to control our usage, digital literacy can be very beneficial and useful in the future. It is all about the way that digital literacy is used, and in what context. As a future teacher, I have noticed through my field works that technology in the classroom has become almost a necessity. Most of the classrooms that I have been in have computers in their classroom, and have a certain time in the day set out for 'computer time.' Growing up, I've never had a set time in the day where I would be assigned to do work at the computers, since using the internet was not as necessary as today's day and age. The educational programs that are on computers are mind-blowing. They are both educational and fun, which attracts the students and makes them want to keep playing and learning. Digital literacy, in this sense, is being put to good use. Rhinegold states, Just as learning to drive an automobile (or at least learning how to survive as a pedestrian) was crucial for citizens of the early twentieth century, learning how to deploy attention in relation to available media is key today for success in education, business, and social life. In today's society, digital literacy is everywhere. To apply to jobs, to look up information, etc. It is crucial to learn how to maneuver through it (in the right ways), and use digital literacy to its full potential.
Barton and Hamilton explain Literacy Practices in many ways that I would not have thought of. Literacy can be seen in many forms, and can be done by anyone. The authors discuss a set of "six proportions about the nature of literacy," which are stated below:
A social group that I am a part of is the Rowan University Dance Team. To stay connected, we use an app called GroupMe to post information for any events coming up. Everyone on the team is involved in the chat, so it is a simple way to address everybody at once. We do events around campus such as football games, fundraisers, and community service. We also have a competition coming up in February. This group chat is a simple way to obtain information about these events, and to keep to reference back to. |
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