{"id":1240,"date":"2015-01-06T10:47:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2015-01-06T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:47:17","slug":"making-the-most-of-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Making the Most of the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new year means a time for reflection and a new start, as educators we get two every year.\u00a0 We start fresh each school year and get a boost mid-way through with the start of a new calendar year.\u00a0 I take the winter break to reflect on how the year is going and what type of course corrections need to be made. \u00a0How will I make the most of the second half of the school year? How will I make 2015 the best year for my students?<\/p>\n<p>My students are teachers who are working in a relatively new mobile learning environment.\u00a0 My greatest desire for them is to find joy in being learners, to celebrate their risk taking and exploration of mobile learning.\u00a0 I want them to feel free to make mistakes and take pride in learning from them. \u00a0They have been given the opportunity to transform their classrooms by integrating digital technology in a 1:1 learning environment.\u00a0 I plan on supporting them by providing a variety of examples, modeling the tools, supporting in creative class instruction, facilitating teacher to teacher and teacher to student collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The air is full of excitement, opportunity and a little bit of nervousness there is no better time to dive in and figure it out together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new year means a time for reflection and a new start, as educators we get two every year.\u00a0 We start fresh each school year and get a boost mid-way through with the start of a new calendar year.\u00a0 I take the winter break to reflect on how the year is going and what type of course corrections need to be made. \u00a0How will I make the most of the second half of the school year? How will I make&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1240\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,26,27,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}