{"id":5335,"date":"2012-05-10T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2012-05-10T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T05:51:14","slug":"salutations-from-steve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/2012\/05\/10\/salutations-from-steve\/","title":{"rendered":"Salutations from Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black;font-size: 9.5pt\">Salutations from Kelowna (BC) to all my fellow ETEC 522 comrades. Currently I am taking 522 and 511, my 6<sup>th<\/sup> and 7<sup>th<\/sup> courses in the MET program.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It seems like just yesterday I was a newbie and terms like scaffolding, digital natives and connectivism were mystifying.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>If you\u2019re a newbie, please don\u2019t let those words scare you\u2026they will seem \u201cold hat\u201d soon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black;font-size: 9.5pt\">I am extremely excited about this course and hope that it can help me bring a venture, near and dear to my heart, to life.<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Leveraging the affordances of various free or cheap collaborative web 2.0 tools, I hope to create a system of collaboration within a community of teachers. Within this platform, I hope teachers will be able to share and build on resources, knowledge and experiences in order to ease the strain of going it alone.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>If anyone else is interested in something similar, or has seen something similar that works (it seems that many online teacher communities are like ghost towns), I would love to know.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I am trying to figure out what works and why these communities are failing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black;font-size: 9.5pt\">Professionally, I am presently teaching Math, Physics and Calculus at George Elliot Secondary, although I have pretty much taught every course except French and Band in my teaching journey, hence my interest in an online system of resource sharing.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I started in the private system, which I loved, but have since transferred to the public system. <span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';color: black;font-size: 9.5pt\">On a personal note, I love hiking with my wife Elan and dog Sugar, going to the drive-in (went to opening night last week), watching rugby (used to play) and drinking beer\u2026.hhhmmm beer.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Steve MacKenzie<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salutations from Kelowna (BC) to all my fellow ETEC 522 comrades. Currently I am taking 522 and 511, my 6th and 7th courses in the MET program.\u00a0 It seems like just yesterday I was a newbie and terms like scaffolding, digital natives and connectivism were mystifying.\u00a0 If you\u2019re a newbie, please don\u2019t let those words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493567],"tags":[493596],"class_list":["post-5335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-01-introductions","tag-introduction-to-etec-522"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5336,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions\/5336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}