Today I decided to try to involve students in a big part of my life, exercise.

I am completely obsessed with my Fitbit and I thought that that would be a great way to connect with students. When I was in the Face-to-Face classroom I had a student that would ask me every day, “How many steps do you have today?” and we would compare our step count on our Fitbits. So I am going to try to connect with students virtually using the Fitbit app. I shared with them how they can download the app (they can just use the app, they don’t even have to have an actual Fitbit tracker), add me, and then join or start a competition.

I think that this is a great way to connect with students and share a big part of my life because it is promoting a healthy lifestyle and you can only see very basic personal information about a person. All they can really see is my first name, my step average, and any trophies I have received. We can also set up challenges that include 2-10 people on who can get the most steps in a week or weekend. I thought it would be fun to have these competitions and then (with permission) announce the winners on the weekly announcements.

I am very excited to see what comes of this new idea, and I hope I have a lot of students participate in this new way of connecting with one another.

***Update: I already had a student add me on Fitbit!***

This is the announcement I posted:

https://create.piktochart.com/outpUut/25312269-fitbit