{"id":814,"date":"2017-01-05T16:11:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T23:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=814"},"modified":"2017-01-05T16:11:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T23:11:16","slug":"greeting-from-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/01\/05\/greeting-from-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeting from Vancouver!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I live in Vancouver, B.C. but work as a secondary school teacher in Richmond. \u00a0I currently teach a variety of sciences including Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences but not, unfortunately, Biology for which I am technically trained in.<\/p>\n<p>This is my eighth MET course having previously completed 512, 500, 510, 511, 522, 530, and 540. \u00a0I feel I use\u00a0technology comfortably in my courses but lack the time to fully incorporate or develop newer aspects that are available.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of school and the MET program, I have two young children (a five year-old and 3 month old) that occupy most of my time but on the occasional \u00a0downtime I enjoy the odd console game and or catching up on\u00a0reading.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to learning with you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I live in Vancouver, B.C. but work as a secondary school teacher in Richmond. \u00a0I currently teach a variety of sciences including Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences but not, unfortunately, Biology for which I am technically trained in. This is my eighth MET course having previously completed 512, 500, 510, 511, 522, 530, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}