Tiktok and Yoga…..Do they go Together?

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Some may argue that TikTok and yoga do not go together, however TikTok can be used to learn how to do yoga! Which is exactly what I did for this week. It took some searching to find a good TikTok video to use but I decided on this one by natalieb_yogi. I chose this particular video because it gave me the names of poses, showed me how to do the poses and well as a proximate length on how long to hold each pose. It was basically a very condensed version of a YouTube video.

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I have done the pose called “thread the needle” a couple times now and I really like it. I found it really helps to stretch out my back and shoulders, which get tight with me sitting at my desk all day doing homework. My other favourite pose from today was the “childs pose.” I started by doing the pose with my arms stretched out front of me, then moved them right and left to stretch out my sides

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Learning from TikTok was okay, but I prefer longer videos. A few of the first videos I watched didn’t really give me much info on the pose, the creator just did the poses themselves. I know the point of TikTok is to watch and create short videos, but it doesn’t always make it the best learning platform.

Before this class, I had never used twitter. I knew what twitter was, and one of my best friends uses it, but I was a beginner at twitter. Now, however, I am slowly starting to figure it out. One of my biggest faults is I keep forgetting to use hashtags when I tweet posts! Not a big deal, I know but it would still be nice to remember. Before using twitter, I had no idea it could be used as an educational source. I just thought it was the place where rich politicians argued on the internet. But now I’m seeing how it can be used as a place to share educational resources as well as collect new ideas for the classroom.

I’ve pretty much followed any page that has “teacher” in the username and a few of the bigger pages have followed me back which is really exciting. While I use many online sources, such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and snapchat, I hardly ever post on my pages. It’s usually only a couple times a year if I do. So using twitter everyday has been a learning curve for me.

I think in the future I want to continue to use twitter, just not as much as I am now. I think I would use it to share activities that my school or classroom has done. I have seen many teachers using twitter as a place to share their Truth and Reconciliation journey. But like many online resources, twitter is only great if used correctly. I do see myself using twitter in the future for educational sources, but I won’t be tweeting at the same level I am right now.