{"id":251,"date":"2015-09-13T17:48:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/?p=251"},"modified":"2015-09-13T17:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:50:26","slug":"introduction-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/2015\/09\/13\/introduction-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction &#8211; Mary Stephenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/files\/2015\/09\/20150912_171805.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This image I took of my trusty old Oxfords next to my computer was too tempting not to take. \u00a0When I started thinking about this course, I went back to my undergraduate days. \u00a0Research then meant spending time in dusty old stacks and printed material was the only option. \u00a0Many years later I am starting a completely online program. \u00a0The difference in a relatively short period is amazing. \u00a0I can&#8217;t yet imagine what we will have in another 20 years! \u00a0 I left the old hard-drives I have been working on in \u00a0front of the computer&#8230;.they were both victims of a crash. \u00a0Let&#8217;s just say the Oxfords never did that.<\/p>\n<p>I graduated from English and Law at UBC and practiced law for a little while before migrating to adult education. \u00a0I taught at private colleges for 15 years, spending the last 10 as senior education manager. \u00a0Now I support my husband in his software development business, and I have just started as the librarian for Courtenay and Campbell River Courthouse Libraries. \u00a0 I am plotting a new, better educated return to education, and I look forward to learning from this course and all my new colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! &nbsp; This image I took of my trusty old Oxfords next to my computer was too tempting not to take. \u00a0When I started thinking about this course, I went back to my undergraduate days. \u00a0Research then meant spending time in dusty old stacks and printed material was the only option. \u00a0Many years later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33659,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","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\/33659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540w2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}