PED266 Fall 2010

This website provides good nutrition ideas for after activity. It explains how important it is to eat well after activity. It shows you good foods to eat and why they are important for your body for recovery.

This gives a list of which foods can cause people to feel depressed or cause them to lose sleep. It also explains why they cause it.

As an aspiring nurse in addition to a community health educator, this site is important to me as I can find medical facts and policies to support other health points I am making. You can look up the Nursing Code of Ethics which can often be cross-referenced when writing almost any health/medical paper. Not to mention, it includes tabs for the health care reform, credentialing, occupational and environmental affairs, and other hot topics.

Alcohol is obviously a major influence on many athletes in college. This website highlights the obvious negatives of its use but also delves deep into the more serious problems alcohol causes.

This is my peer application tutorial about "Netvibes" I used it as a main source of information for my PLN. It can be used as a search engine, RSS aggregator and many other things. It is a dashboard application, somewhat like iGOOGLE but I think it is way better!

I chose this article because it is simple to relate to at any point in your life that seems a little stressfull. It is all about the "glass-half-empty" Type of personality that may have bad effects on your personal health. It also goes over ways to help relax and retrain their thought process to become more "glass-half-full" type of personlities.

From an independent perspective (no commercial interests), the George Mateljan Foundation (non-profit) reports the latest scientific information about the benefits of the World's Healthiest Foods and the specific nutrients they provide. They also offer practical, simple and cost-effective ways to fit these foods into your lifestyle.

This organization is a government sponsored organization, so technically it is said to be a credible source. This site offers information about controversial issues in health education like sexual education. It also has information about NIH itself, about obtaining grants for research, and about news in the health field.

This is a quick video tutorial about the bascics you need to know to create your own Twitter account. It shows you many things, including how to search for people and how to follow certian people. Its a great way to stay informed.

Great yoga center right off of Oleander. It has a bunch of different types of classes like vinyasa and hot yoga for all levels of experience. There is also a student discount!

This is a tutorial of the basic capabilities of Skype. I was asked to show everything that Skype was able to do but that would lead to a 15 mintue or more presentation. So I made an executive decision and went with the necessities of Skype. I chose to use this because I did not have cell phone service in my apartment and it was my only means of communication with the outside world while I was in my apartment.

Sporcle has thousands of random quizzes that can test your knowledge about anything. Like stumbleupon, you learn a lot and it's a great way to kill time!

Thank you - Spent last ten minutes picking AP cities.

The CDC publishes articles weekly dealing with Morbidity and Mortality issues mostly in the United States. This site is an great tool for other health/exercise/medical information, studies, and new discoveries.

In his blog, Brian Breidenbach has an open forum of his subscribers discussing various online data/contact managing sites. Viewers get a variety of feedback about a variety of online programs.

Archive of videos demonstrating proper form on multiple exercises. Descriptive comments that can increase performance/reduce risk of injury on the side that correspond with the video demonstration

Great Bookmark! David, these are wonderful videos. But, not just videos but interactive training materials - for free!

This is my peer tutorial on "My Health Tracker". It is an application used to help people stay on track with a weight loss regime and keep track of other aspects of health and wellness. It's very simple to use and very beneficial to those who take advantage.

This site discusses barefoot running. This is currently a hot topic on whether or not this style of running is good for your body

In my blog, I discuss Plaxo, an online progam that makes it easy to manage your online address book. You can use Plaxo personally or professionally. A misconception is that Plaxo is too much like Facebook, but after all, that is an misconception. Plaxo can be used much more professionally; and you can make Plaxo your own by using all or none of their extra tools like a calendar, eCards, or stream connection, or post photos or links. Being organized is a part of wellness!

Weather.com is your weather website. Gives detailed forecasts for any area. Gives national weather headlines, forecasts, and news on their newly formatted site. Good place to look to see when and where a hurricane is coming!

This is an awesome website, that I am sure most people are aware of, but it lets you check the weather before you, you know, go outside, hike a mile to class in rain and tornado winds...

This is how you add an RSS feed to your iGoogle pages with Firefox and Internet Explorer.