{"id":1537,"date":"2009-09-08T22:13:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T06:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2009-09-09T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T20:30:30","slug":"hi-from-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/2009\/09\/08\/hi-from-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi from Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1539\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1539\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/072-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"My wife and I in Hong Kong at the movie theatre to watch Up in 3D.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/072-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/072-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/072.JPG 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My wife and I at a movie theatre in Hong Kong  to watch Up in 3D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hi Everyone. My name is Sean McMinn. This is my 7th MET course, and I&#8217;m pretty excited to be (virtually) here.<\/p>\n<p>I teach English at a university here in Hong Kong, and I love it. The job is great, the people are nice, and life is simply interesting and always adventurous. So far, I&#8217;ve been enjoying the MET programme &#8212; which has helped me advance in my career over the past year or so. In particular, I&#8217;ve been able to embed podcasts (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/\">http:\/\/campusbeat.ust.hk<\/a>) and wikis into courses successfully thanks to what I&#8217;ve learned though the programme.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to ETEC522 because I lack entrepreneurial skills and would like to explore business opportunities &#8230; some day. More immediately, I would like to enhance my intrapreneurial (new word for me) skills. As I learn more through the MET programme I see opportunities for developing or enhancing technologies to be used at our university. To do this, though, I need to apply for funding. If I can improve on my &#8220;pitches&#8221; or selling, I would be happy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to working with everyone. (I can&#8217;t believe the summer break went by so fast!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone. My name is Sean McMinn. This is my 7th MET course, and I&#8217;m pretty excited to be (virtually) here. I teach English at a university here in Hong Kong, and I love it. The job is great, the people are nice, and life is simply interesting and always adventurous. So far, I&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[279,281,5161],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mod01-introductions","tag-introductions","tag-m1","tag-mcminn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}