{"id":513,"date":"2009-09-16T00:57:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T07:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=513"},"modified":"2009-09-16T00:57:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T07:57:27","slug":"reflections-by-tracy-gidinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/16\/reflections-by-tracy-gidinski\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections…by Tracy Gidinski"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve much preferred using a blog system to the Vista system for several reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. I’m familiar with it as I have been experimenting with different blogging platforms for several years, and prefer Word Press to other platforms.<\/li>\n
  2. It has a simpler interface<\/li>\n
  3. I love the ease of being able to upload images and other media.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I find myself, however, copying my own posts to a new version of my own personal blog<\/a> (that I set up a while ago, but just started really using for this course), just so I can see my posts in one place (even without the comments from others).\u00a0 If I could design the ultimate interface for this (i.e., if I had the technological skill to do this), I would love to see us writing on our own personal blogs, with any of our posts with, for instance,\u00a0 the category “etec 540” be automatically shown here (with the ability to add comments to either location).\u00a0 That way, we could view our own posts in one location (including things unrelated to this course, perhaps), view others’ posts on their own blogs, or view the entire upload of etec 540 posts on this site.\u00a0 But alas, I don’t have that technological prowess.<\/p>\n

    Is there a way to have the ability to go to the next page of older posts on this?\u00a0 I find I have to read daily in order not to miss any posts, and due to a (minor) car accident last week that played with my shoulder and made sitting at the computer a little uncomfortable for a short time, I missed a lot of information.\u00a0 (The shoulder is now fine and the car is under repairs, by the way.)<\/p>\n

    I wonder, though, if the use of a blog changes the formality of our writing?\u00a0 I find myself writing in a style that is different than the posts from my previous coursework because of the fact that it is a blog.\u00a0 For instance, my use of parenthesis in this post is indicative of the style I use while on Facebook, when writing emails to friends, or, to some extent, when writing blog articles on my school blog to my students.\u00a0 Perhaps this phenomenon is affecting just myself, and I should be using a stricter level of formality in these posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve much preferred using a blog system to the Vista system for several reasons: I’m familiar with it as I have been experimenting with different blogging platforms for several years, and prefer Word Press to other platforms. It has a simpler interface I love the ease of being able to upload images and other media. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}