{"id":4666,"date":"2018-01-22T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2018-01-22T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:59:18","slug":"newcomer-hello-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/22\/newcomer-hello-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcomer: Hello Everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n<p>I am a little late to join you all but glad that I am a part of this course finally. I live in Surrey, BC and am a full-time masters student at UBC. I am doing my M.A. in math education and I am taking this course as an alternative to one of the math education courses I have to take. I have never taken a MET course before, this would be my first one.<\/p>\n<p>I taught for a year at a high school in Surrey after getting my education degree.\u00a0I am hoping to learn different strategies on how to incorporate technology into my classroom and understand pros\/cons of technology in education by the end of this semester.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to try to catch-up on the discussions and assignments that I missed as soon as I can, therefore, I will be posting replies to some of you fellow&#8217;s posts.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to working with you all for the rest of the semester and learn from everyone!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! I am a little late to join you all but glad that I am a part of this course finally. I live in Surrey, BC and am a full-time masters student at UBC. I am doing my M.A. in math education and I am taking this course as an alternative to one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666","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\/57098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}