Blog 24: Last Presentation Reflection

(1) Positive Statement
What I am most proud of from my from my block-long lesson is that I was able to talk about my experiences from the year long project and that people liked my activity.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.
 P

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.
 
P

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

What worked for me in this project is that I was able to find research articles with relative ease and did not have to resort to buying books.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?

 I would try to expand my research field as well as have decided on solely fitness instead of starting with mixed martial arts and fitness. But for an absolute do over I would have stuck with my original choice of video games for a topic and have gone with competitive gaming.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

Senior project has helped me understand exercise better especially since one of my future endeavors is to be physically fit. This is from my research to prove that if I were to find ways where my exercise will work with how my life will be situated.

Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

 "How can an adolescent maximize personal fitness?" My answers are: enjoyment, motivation, balance. I believe enjoyment is the best answer from my research because my research and interview with a personal trainer both pointed me in that direction.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

 I tried to keep the research count balanced when it came to my three answers. However, the more I read into them they all has an underlining theme of being able to do these things with a positive outlook vs someone who has no interest in doing exercise. My interview with Danny Navarro finalize my decision because he put it simply, " Enjoyment will create motivation and will lead to the balance that people need."

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

 The first problem I faced in the senior project was that my first mentor, Danny Navarro, was unable to be my mentor anymore, and then to resolve that I started mentoring with my uncle, Edwin Sic. Another problem I faced was that my second answer was rather shallow in terms of research for solely "intrinsic motivation" to resolve that I changed my second answer to general motivation which helped me further my research.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

 The two most significant sources I used to answer my EQ were WebMD and Huffington Post. Those two sites were the leading sites where I found the most significant and reoccurringly relevant resources for my answers which helped answer my EQ.

Blog 22: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents ___ hours of work.”

I, Isaac Diaz, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 31 hours of work.

 
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

 N/A

 
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)

 Link to the hour log for mobile users: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TK0pZkK_R75psJc1fpVuYo5XoM7IqUJ25CgAlh4Hnro/edit#gid=0

 
(d) Explain what you completed.    

What I worked on was doing physical therapy recommended to me through my doctor that would help me recover more from my accident.

 
(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   

What I did is experiential research for my answers: enjoyment and motivation. I do not consider it research for my third answer (balance) since I needed to work with my limitations. This  also gave me insight for how I can better communicate the importance of body care and fitness especially when recovering from an accident.

 

In addition to the following link I included a picture of: my walking route, me and my dog, and me and the horse I worked with.

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kxKxbysJ9_YhusFxv46ujGqJ0dZzF9ZilBEET_tEpoQ/edit?usp=sharing

(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

 As previously stated my project is very experiential and trying to understand how to get into exercising especially since I did not know how to connect with people who have had accidents or exercise-limiting accidents.

Blog 21 - Interview 4 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

The most important thing that I learned from this interview was how my previous mentor would feel is the most solid of my three answers as well as giving me input on what I have been researching.

2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?

Since I have asked what Mr. Navarro's opinion for which of my three answers would be best for my EQ. While I will not use his answer as my own (unless research and thinking about my answers) for my final answer.

Direct Link: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-diaz-863495835/interview-4

Blog 20: Fourth Interview Questions

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

I don't know who I want to interview for my fourth interview, I was thinking of interviewing someone at 24 Hour Fitness, but I do not have someone in mind at this time.

2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

1. How can someone make exercise enjoyable?
2. What does exercise mean to you?
3. Have you ever had to make a decision between exercise and another activity?
4. As a trainer, how do you motivate clients?
5. How do you motivate yourself to exercise?
6. How often do you exercise and why?
7. (follow up to #6) For that reason how did you find that balance between exercise and other activities?
8. Do you feel dieting is of equal or greater importance to exercise?
9. What are the benefits of exercise that are not directly related to body changes that you can think of?
10. I assume that you work with very physically active people, but how would you recommend someone who has had a physically weakening accident to exercise for the best results?
11. Do you think that it is easy to make physical activity a habit?
12. How often do you work with adolescents?
13. (follow up to #12) What do you recommend for adolescents who are busy with school and other activities?
14. Do you believe that there are alternatives to exercise?
15. What exercise activities can a person do that is not directly exercising in a gym?
16. Is a person is unable to exercise frequently or at all what would you recommend them to do?
17. Mental health is just as important as physical health, how would can one incorporate exercise for aiding in mental health recovery/treatment?
18. Do you believe that group exercise can make exercise more enjoyable?
19. How easy is it to spark a passion to exercise?
20. If I were to ask you "How can an adolescent maximize personal fitness?" and your choice of answers were: Enjoyment, determination, and achieving a balance between works and exercise; what would you say is the best answer and why?

Blog 19: Third Answer

• EQ: How can an adolescent maximize personal fitness?
• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
  To achieve a maximized personal fitness, an adolescent must achieve balance.
• 3 details to support the answer 

1. Each individual has to have a tailored exercise routine to balance any situation they experience,
2. It is important for a person to balance their emotional life, one way that a person can achieve that balance is by using exercise to help manage their emotions.
3. As adolescents, our lives are usually busy and we need exercise to stay healthy. Therefore we try to balance every aspect of our lives as much as we physically and mentally can.

• The research source(s) to support your details and answer

Brown, Nancy. "Emotion & Life." Sutter Health. Sutter Health, October 2013. Web. 29 February 2016. http://www.pamf.org/teen/life/stress/lifebalance.html
 
Abeles, Vicki. "Students lack school-life balance: Column." USA Today. USA Today, 25 September 2014. Web. 29 February 2016.http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/09/25/vicki-abeles-stressed-students-balance-column/16110085/
 
Jeanne Goodes. "Tips for Helping Teens Balance School and Sport." breakingmuscle. breakingmuscle, n.d. Web. 29 February 2016.http://breakingmuscle.com/family-kids/tips-for-helping-teens-balance-school-and-sport

• Concluding Sentence: Everything in life requires balance, and when it comes to life we need to have exercise, but life can be so busy. Many people, not just adolescents tend to write off their physical fitness to make time of other things. Having balance is very important to maximizing personal fitness.

Blog 18: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

"How can an adolescent best achieve personal fitness?"

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

 Enjoying exercise is how one can maximize personal fitness. 

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

 Using intrinsic motivation, a person can maximize their personal fitness.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

•  If you enjoy something to no longer feels like work, you can enjoy what you're doing.
•  When you exercise you feel better and that can lower negative emotions.
• Once you can enjoy your exercise you can make it a part of your daily activites.
• The first part of getting exercise is done is getting out of the door.
• If nothing else motivates you, you are always something that you can rely on.
• Change is good for the body and you are the one who ultimately chooses to change.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

Deci, Edward L."Effects of Externally Mediated Rewards on Intrensic Motivation." University of Rochester. University of Rochester, 30 June 1970. Web. 22 February 2016.
 http://www.quilageo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/fn103.Deci_.pdf

6.  What other source supports your answer?

"Change for Good." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 18 February 2016.
 http://www.webmd.com/balance/change-for-good-15/default.htm


7.  Tie this together with a concluding thought.

Paraphrasing what my mentor said, if you can turn the workout into playtime you will feel better and its all on you to walk out that door and take.