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FR dips into future of education with online, hybrid course offerings
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Stephanie Pellegrino doesn't have a typical school day.
When the Franklin Regional senior goes to her creative writing or communication class on most days, she doesn't have to worry about what she's wearing or showing up on time.
Instead, Pellegrino can listen to teacher Kristin Giron's lessons from the comfort of her Delmont home and work on "in-class" writing assignments when her creative juices are flowing not at 8 a.m. in the morning.
"You become more independent, and it's on you to get your work done," said Pellegrino, 17. "It definitely gives me a different level of responsibility."
More than 250 students have enrolled in one of Franklin Regional's four for-credit hybrid or online courses since the district began offering the classes in 2009-10. Officials hope that number increases drastically when four more classes are added to the schedule this fall. Honors speech and communications and honors physics will be offered as hybrid courses, while international business and 12th-grade English will be offered as online-only classes in addition to being held in a traditional setting.
"The kids enjoy it and find it challenging," said Roger Crider, the high school's technology coach and a business teacher.
"The content isn't any different (from a face-to-face class), it's just the deliver method."
Crider's online Microsoft Office course is the newest addition to the online offerings, which began with an online wellness course that officials say has been very popular. The courses enable students to add additional classes and different types of learning to their schedule.
For instance, Crider said students who take his Microsoft Office course learn how to communicate differently than in a typical classroom setting.
"It's difficult for a lot of people to communicate online," he said. "It's easy enough to send an email or post something to Twitter, but sometimes it takes two or three emails to be able to get the right question or answer across."
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An introduction to Glow Yoga
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Yoga: the secret of the slender and serene or just a lot of hippies moaning and bending into funny positions? Katie Gormley, of women's sports magazine Sportsister, tried her hand, and various other body parts, at the newest yoga trend, Glow Yoga...
There are many versions of this discipline and Ive tried quite a few, so am fairly well versed when it comes to yogic lingo and manoeuvres, which is probably why Sportsister HQ suggested I visit the new glow yoga class to see just what its all about.
There are so many different types of yoga, its hard to keep track from the hardcore Ashtanga and Bikram, to the more mellow Hatha, as well as all sorts of spin-offs and interpretations in between. The benefits of mindfulness, flexibility, strength and wellbeing are typical of all yoga studios so what makes glow yoga stand out?
The key differentiating factor is the environment. Infra red panels create a warm and nurturing environment. The studios website lists the benefits of this light to include reducing muscle stiffness and increasing weight loss. The infrared lighting is also documented to help relieve SAD, giving you all the benefits of a sunny day, which on a rainy and grey Sunday in March is very appealing.
If I was going to put forward a really concise description Id just say this is vinyasa yoga, in a dark, warm room.
In terms of movement the class is much like any other of this genre and postures are taken from a combination of hatha yoga and pilates. The sequence of movements is designed to encourage you to focus on the present state and breath as you flow from one to the other. The sequence is designed to encourage harmony in the body and mind as well as strength, tone and flexibility.
I do a fair bit of yoga but still managed to be rather unflowing at various stages of the class. Its always the breathing that stumps me more than the moves. However, nobody seemed to be laughing in my face, which is always a bonus. In fact, everyone was just quietly engrossed in their own practice; a good sign of a serious yoga studio.
I attended the bliss yoga class, the focus of which is relaxation and harmony between body and mind. None of these states come naturally to me. I struggle with keeping still and can only really relax in a savasana (aka. lying down still or corpse) if Ive really worked the posture beforehand.
However in terms of zen environments this is about as calming as you can get. Looking around the class its clear that the effect of the diptique candles, the teachers calm and melodious voice, and the infra-red glow has created a relaxed state of calm sedation.
After the class my fellow classmates shared their feelings of total calm and a completely balancing experience setting them up for the week ahead (this class was on a Sunday afternoon).
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Scandal contorts future of John Friend, Anusara yoga
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At his best, when a crowd of hundreds of students extended their limbs before him or drew deep breaths with their eyes closed, John Friend could captivate minds and shape bodies. Students spoke of melting beneath his touch. In a gentle voice, he urged them to reach for something beyond the physical, something that extended past the poses they perfected on their yoga mats and embedded into their everyday lives.
Its all yoga, he would say.
He became a superstar, a jet-setting international celebrity of boundless ambition who had invented Anusara, a yoga style that combines rigorous physical poses with a philosophical framework, strict ethical standards and an emphasis on building a worldwide yoga community. He touched down in European and Asian capitals or headlined American yoga festivals trailed by an entourage and a traveling retail outlet. When class ended, the parties often began, happenings where his adoring fans drank beer and cocktails and listened to Friend read poetry as costumed performers roamed the room.
Kind of a lovefest. Kind of a party, April Ritchey, a California-based Anusara instructor, called it. People really got addicted to being a part of this.
Friend achieved kind of a new thing: yoga rock-stardom, said Joe Miller, the owner of Willow Street Yoga in Takoma Park and Silver Spring, until recently the worlds largest Anusara-affiliated studio.
Friends empire an international network that claims more than 1,500 teachers, including 25 in the Washington metro area, and 600,000 students is in crisis now, teetering under the strain of a sex scandal that has split its most loyal practitioners and prompted an astounding venting of emotions, from rage and recriminations to compassion and sadness. In conference calls, e-mails and hushed conversations, Friend has admitted to sexual relations with students and employees and married women. He has confessed to cheating on one girlfriend and smoking marijuana, according to senior Anusara instructors who have participated in conference calls with him. And he has acknowledged leading an otherwise all-female Wiccan coven whose members sometimes took off all their clothes for gatherings, according to senior Anusara instructors who detailed his admissions in a written summary provided to The Washington Post. The covens name was the Blazing Solar Flames, and Friend had Anusaras graphics team design a logo for it, according to three former employees.
There had been rumors about a wild side to Friends lifestyle for years, but few comprehended the magnitude until Feb. 3 when an anonymous Web site jfexposed.com appeared containing graphic, close-up sexual images and racy chat transcripts attributed to Friend and a student. The Web site, which was up for just a day and a half, gained a wide audience when it was featured on the popular site yogadork.com. It included allegations of financial misdeeds the freezing of promised pension funds that Friend later said were the result of a clerical error that was corrected after an employee complained to government regulators.
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Ward ponders idea of coaching at Georgia
Posted: March 28, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Hines Ward carved out a stellar career as a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, before announcing his retirement last week.
But Ward may be considering another chapter of football in his life - perhaps coaching. Ward told an Atlanta TV station earlier this year that coaching at Georgia would be "my ultimate dream job."
Ward, according to the Athens, Ga., Banner-Herald, was at spring practice for his alma mater, the University of Georgia, on Tuesday and observing the goings-on with a possible eye to see whether or not coaching on the college level might be appealing in some capacity.
"Hes just trying to see if thats something he wants to go into, Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said. Hes going to spend some time over here, a couple of days to see what all we do. Not just out there in practice, but to see, hey, what do you do out there in recruiting, kind of see if thats something he wants to do, kind of like when coaches come and visit.
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