{"id":2346,"date":"2017-05-17T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2017-05-17T20:02:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T03:02:51","slug":"hello-from-calgary-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/05\/17\/hello-from-calgary-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Allen Wideman, and I&#8217;m currently a Physical Education specialist teaching at a K-4 elementary school in Calgary, Alberta. \u00a0I&#8217;m originally from Vancouver, and I&#8217;ve previously taught grades 5\/6 as a classroom based teacher. \u00a0In keeping myself motivated and challenged, I&#8217;m looking at potentially making a move back into a classroom role for the upcoming school year. \u00a0I took ETEC 532 last term, which provided a great exploration of technology through the Arts and Humanities, and I&#8217;m looking forward to engaging with integrating technology for Math and Science, particularly with regards to applications based around STEM.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to say that I&#8217;m taking my 9th and 10th courses (ETEC 533 and ETEC 590) towards the MET degree, and I&#8217;m excited about completing this journey in August. \u00a0Other than teaching and technology, I enjoy spending my time trying to keep up with my wife and our 6 year old twins, and we try to be as active in sports as we possibly can. \u00a0I&#8217;m a life long\u00a0sports enthusiast, I love the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Mariners, and I&#8217;m in the midst of a long, turbulent, and truly unfortunate love affair with the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to learning with everyone this term.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>-Allen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone! I&#8217;m Allen Wideman, and I&#8217;m currently a Physical Education specialist teaching at a K-4 elementary school in Calgary, Alberta. \u00a0I&#8217;m originally from Vancouver, and I&#8217;ve previously taught grades 5\/6 as a classroom based teacher. \u00a0In keeping myself motivated and challenged, I&#8217;m looking at potentially making a move back into a classroom role for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}