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.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

Link to soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-diaz-863495835/interview-3 

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

I learned that you can do what you want/need to do as long as you are willing to take that first step. 
 
2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

 It has changed more from acquiring general knowledge to asking questions that help me further my research as I ask questions that relate to current research and give me answers that I can use for answering or establishing questions regarding my EQ.



My mentor, Edwin, worked at Bally's total fitness for many years and is very driven from exercise, this makes him very qualified to be a mentor and interviewee.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

 I'm not entirely sure for what I'd like to do for my IC2. Some ideas I had was doing another 30 hours of doing exercises or trying to get out more while staying active.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

 For both I'd take photos and videos to show that I was doing activity.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

 Well for my first answer it was enjoyment, and then for the second answer I was thinking of being determined to exercise. Going out to do physical activity I'd try to do.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

 Added to the log and here is a link for mobile users:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TK0pZkK_R75psJc1fpVuYo5XoM7IqUJ25CgAlh4Hnro/edit?usp=sharing

Blog 16: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL  

(a) “I, Isaac Diaz, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.” 

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

I did not use books or articles for my independent component.

(c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours. 

Link is on the sidebar, for mobile users click the link provided:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TK0pZkK_R75psJc1fpVuYo5XoM7IqUJ25CgAlh4Hnro/edit#gid=0

(d) Explain what you completed.    

I completed some exercise and physical activity in the beginning of my IC#1 then when the new year rolled around and I injured my leg I spent the first week of school writing down a food log to observe what I ate and how I can fix it.

• INTERPRETIVE 

  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
  Food Log: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19zyfGdDBwbYXTy8NeicoplRdYCRQtx2n4U28_huZ1hY/edit?usp=sharing
  
   ( I tried to get video of me walking my dogs and the trip from the park on the 30th of January but the files couldn't be transferred as of 8:02PM 4 February 2016. I'm still trying)
  
   
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
  
  The component has helped me understand fitness is something more than solely exercising, its about taking care of my body (planning my dietary changes) while still doing physical activity (jogs, walking my dogs, and hoking with family) gave me a new perspective that exercise can be made into something better. And then with my accident it has shown me that there is exercises that I can be doing doing during recovery and afterwards too.

Blog 15: Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

I am proud that I did not choke up (very much) on my presentation because when I practiced I ended up going overtime from stumbling over my words and not knowing what to say when a slide came up

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I didn't make time with the explanation of answer portion, That is an auto-failure...

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

What worked was having a powerpoint to look back to for reference.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

The only thing that didn't go well was me being short 2 minutes. If I could I'd do a recap of what I said to make the whole presentation tie up and add timw.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be? 

 I've been considering something along the lines of "Discipline is necessary for an adolescent to maximize personal fitness."