{"id":116,"date":"2015-09-10T15:23:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T22:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/?p=116"},"modified":"2015-09-10T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T22:25:19","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/2015\/09\/10\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Heitz &#8211; Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/files\/2015\/09\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/files\/2015\/09\/image-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"New Generation of Readers\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/files\/2015\/09\/image-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/files\/2015\/09\/image-400x595.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/files\/2015\/09\/image.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To me, this image sums up many elements of this course: literacy, reading, writing and printing. \u00a0I snapped this picture a few days ago, my oldest daughter has just started preschool and is beginning the journey of becoming a literate little being. \u00a0This little 3 year old is able to recognize letters and is starting to understand that different letters make different sounds. \u00a0These are the building blocks to literacy. \u00a0Furthermor, she is also part of the next generation who could very well experiences some of the biggest and possibly fastest changes in text technologies.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Anita Heitz, I live in Mission BC \u00a0and teach in Abbotsford. I am a middle school teacher (I teach grade 6 and 7), wife to a fantastic husband Ryan, mother to 2 beautiful girls. \u00a0This course marks the half way mark for my MET journey. \u00a0I am bilingual (as are my daughters) , so language, how we acquire it and how it changes over time has always been interesting to me. \u00a0I also love history and am excited that this course seems to offer some historical elements and (I am hoping) provide some historical context to how reading, writing and language have changed over the course of time. \u00a0I&#8217;m excited to work with and learn from new people this semester.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; To me, this image sums up many elements of this course: literacy, reading, writing and printing. \u00a0I snapped this picture a few days ago, my oldest daughter has just started preschool and is beginning the journey of becoming a literate little being. \u00a0This little 3 year old is able to recognize letters and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31236,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-introductions","tag-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}