{"id":1644,"date":"2009-09-09T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2009-09-09T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T02:37:10","slug":"nice-to-meet-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/2009\/09\/09\/nice-to-meet-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice to Meet You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erikvandusen.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/erik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/erikvandusen.wordpress.com\/files\/2008\/09\/erik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Erik Van Dusen is the name, and teaching is my game! I&#8217;ve been employed by Regina Public Schools for nearly nine years now. Half of those years were spent teaching Kindergarten, the other teaching grade eight. I cherish my work and the relationships I have managed to create with students, staff, and community members.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ETEC 522 is my 8th MET course. I know VERY little about ventures in learning technologies, so I&#8217;m really looking forward to this course. Who knows, maybe I&#8217;ll even come up with a venture idea of my own along the way!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Personally, I&#8217;m a pretty busy guy with work and grad studies (UBC-MET), but I do manage to do some of my favorite activities now and then. If I&#8217;m not hanging out watching sports, you can find me wandering around the great outdoors or swimming a few laps (Phelps&#8217; records are very safe).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My family, however, is my greatest interest. I have a daughter (6), a son (2), and a wonderful wife who covers for me a great deal when I&#8217;m studying. One day I&#8217;ll repay her- promise.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Anybody Tweet?\u00a0 http:\/\/twitter.com\/evandusen<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Van Dusen is the name, and teaching is my game! I&#8217;ve been employed by Regina Public Schools for nearly nine years now. Half of those years were spent teaching Kindergarten, the other teaching grade eight. I cherish my work and the relationships I have managed to create with students, staff, and community members. ETEC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[279,281,5183],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mod01-introductions","tag-introductions","tag-m1","tag-van-dusen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","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\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}