Recovery Day

This is my first rest day from any physical cardio since Wednesday of last week. Since then I have burned over 8000 calories, biked over 75 miles, and ran 35 miles. Not to mention all the workouts in between for core building.
Rest days are both good for physiological and physical reason. My training program has me doing three rest days next week and then two weeks with only two days afterwards. The main thing to keep in mind is not to over train and listen to what your body is telling you. Tomorrow my short run is set for five miles as a train for my first ever 15K and shortly afterward my first ever half marathon.

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Poem

Perfect Run

Confession of a perfect run

So serene balance and vibrant

Devoted to time

Endless to the mind

Yearning for more

Protected by moment

Viewed by reality

Hidden by age

Lost to tomorrow

                            -Frank Long

Network Etiquette

Can you imagine living in a world with millions of rude citizens starting flaming wars and constantly hurting others?

I see it everyday in the online world and more and more students are coming out of school not understanding what you can and can’t say when interacting with their teachers online. Can you blame them? Their peers do it all the time and no one in school probably took the time to teach them any type of network etiquette.

These network etiquette standards exist and implementing these in education would be a no brainer based on our society types today. Here are 10 rules that are linked to excerpted from the book ‘Netiquette’ by Virginia Shea. She focuses on areas that are fundamentals to us and are taught today anytime these modalities are taught.

Very simply put “Do unto others as you'd have others do unto you.”

Introduction

Rule 1: Remember the Human

Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life

Rule 3: Know where you are in cyberspace

Rule 4: Respect other people's time and bandwidth

Rule 5: Make yourself look good online

Rule 6: Share expert knowledge

Rule 7: Help keep flame wars under control

Rule 8: Respect other people's privacy

Rule 9: Don't abuse your power

Rule 10: Be forgiving of other people's mistakes

I hope you take advantage and read these and start to think how you can implement them in your classes and allow our young learners to be better prepared to function as a citizen in our cyber world.

Poem

Defeat

Defeat instant hidden and dark

Calling the uninvited

Come where perfection stops calling

Echoing the pain that lingers

Soothing newfound bond

Where unfilled past fall and sink

New Life

New Dream

                        -Frank Long

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