Katrina Lifer's Blog

    After thinking about the story choices I originally put forth and doing some self reflecting I have decided to tell my health and fitness journey. I've reached a point where I need to find extra motivation to continue this journey and I feel like telling my story to this point will help me find that. My story is a personal narrative. Telling this story will be something that can speak to others that are on the same journey or even those that haven't started yet and are looking for that reason to move forward with their own. My main focus will be to provide motivation to others and help my own issues that I'm still struggling with-body dysmorphia and the motivation to continue. My fitness journey has been a lengthy one, but also an all natural journey that has led to better health and improvement with family relationships. I plan to use this in a staff development environment. My school has a program this year called Wellness Wednesday where once a month an activity or...

"Turn"  For this week's blog I chose the story "Turn" by Dana Atchley. Before I could begin accessing this digital story, I needed to learn more about Dana Atchley. Upon further researching him, I have found so many more of his digital stories and loved everyone of them I watched. All of his stories that I explored have similar structure to them-old time video with music. The video had music that began to play after the introduction. The music was the background sound to the words being spoken, which created a nostalgia that wouldn't have been the same without the musical accompany. The music helped to set an old time tone when paired with the video footage.  In the video "Turn", the family is marched out of the house yearly to stand in front of their home and slowly turn in a circle. Over time, the family grew and changed-going from the sons to include a wife and then a young child-Dana Atchley. While this was a short story to be told, it was a wo...

My name is Katrina Lifer and I am a 2nd grade teacher and Instructional Technology Coach in small town Altus, OK.  I started my teaching career in 2009 as a teacher's aide and quickly realized how much I wanted to have my own classroom. I have been teaching 2nd grade for the past 4 years and served as an Instructional Technology Coach for the past 2 years.       I have been married to my husband for almost 21 years. We were set up on a date by my best friend during my senior year of high school and have been together ever since. Together we have 4 children (20,17,10, and 6). Our 20 year old is leaving for the United States Air Force in January 2025. Our 17 year old is in her senior year of high school and will be going to Spain in August 2025 to play soccer for an academy in Castellon de la Plana. We love to spend time together by going camping,  hiking or traveling to new places.  When I first started to read this assignment I was very much confused b...