{"id":17,"date":"2006-03-25T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-05-31T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T22:04:15","slug":"why-do-i-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Why do I blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I blog? Who do I blog for? I was asked these questions while attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masscue.org\">MassCUE<\/a> Technology Leaders Symposium.  I didn&#8217;t have a ready answer.  It required some reflection.  Here is the short answer.<\/p>\n<p>I started blogging just to try it out.  As a K12 technology integration specialist I need to experiment with and read up on the new tools and technologies out there. I need to be aware of how to use them, it is my role to offer options and support to classroom teachers.  I am also a firm believer that you learn by doing, experience is really the best teacher.  I continue to blog because it allows my ideas to condense and coalesce.  It will also provide an archive of my thoughts and learning.<\/p>\n<p>Who do I blog for?  At first it was just an exercise in how to so I did not have a target audience. Now most of my entries are continuations of face-to-face and on going e-mail conversations with classroom teachers and fellow technology specialists. So I guess they would be my target audience.  But I must say I also write for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I blog? Who do I blog for? I was asked these questions while attending the MassCUE Technology Leaders Symposium. I didn&#8217;t have a ready answer. It required some reflection. Here is the short answer. I started blogging just to try it out. As a K12 technology integration specialist I need to experiment with and read up on the new tools and technologies out there. I need to be aware of how to use them, it is my role&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=17\"> 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":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}