{"id":4324,"date":"2018-01-06T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T20:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2018-01-06T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T20:30:48","slug":"hi-from-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/06\/hi-from-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi from Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"message user_content enhanced\">\n<p>Hi everyone!\u00a0 My name is Dave Dykstra.\u00a0 I am currently taking my 8th and 9th MET courses, so the end may soon be in sight.\u00a0 I have enjoyed this program, and my teaching has grown greatly through this program, as well as my comfort and confidence in working with tech in the classroom.\u00a0 I am a teacher at Guido de Bres Christian High in Hamilton, Ontario, where I have been teaching for the past 17 years.\u00a0 I have been blessed to work part-time for the last number of years which allows me some time for this program but also for my family who wouldn&#8217;t see me otherwise.\u00a0 I teach mainly Bio11 and 12 and grade 9 and 10 science.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve started MET, I&#8217;ve been able to start a Robotics program at out school using the VEX robotics system.\u00a0 It continues to grow and move forward from 4 students in-house to more than 20 and a competition team last year.\u00a0 In my classes, I have also been incorporating much more student centered learning and technology.\u00a0 For my biology classes, we&#8217;ve been using digital fora as well as creating course wikis and digital artifacts, which for the most part have gone very well.<\/p>\n<p>I am happily married for 15 years with 3 wonderful children (13,11,7) and a dog.\u00a0 We love to travel in the summer (Maritimes last year) and my interests include tennis, kayaking, and skiiing.\u00a0 I look forward to working with you all, and am happy to see a few familiar names to work with again!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment_attachments\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone!\u00a0 My name is Dave Dykstra.\u00a0 I am currently taking my 8th and 9th MET courses, so the end may soon be in sight.\u00a0 I have enjoyed this program, and my teaching has grown greatly through this program, as well as my comfort and confidence in working with tech in the classroom.\u00a0 I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}