{"id":230,"date":"2016-12-09T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2016-12-09T23:29:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T23:29:38","slug":"fall-semester-blog-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/writing\/fall-semester-blog-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Semester: Blog Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Fall semester today! Grades are turned in, students are congratulated&#8230; and while they might fretting about finals next week, I am thinking about the fun things I get to do between now and January when classes will start up for me again.<\/p>\n<p>And one of the fun things I will get to do is to keep on blogging in this webspace. I started this blog on October 25, and I&#8217;ve managed to keep at it, Monday through Friday, for the past six weeks, with no shortage of things to blog about, even though I am still an LMS minimalist. Canvas is not so much the subject but more like the excuse for writing about issues in teaching and learning that interest me.<\/p>\n<p>Someone at Twitter remarked today that she didn&#8217;t have time to blog, whereas for me, it is kind of the opposite: I don&#8217;t have time\u00a0<em><strong>not<\/strong><\/em> to blog. Blogging is what helps me keep my focus from day to day, especially on big questions and long-term projects that I would lose sight of if I were not blogging. Blogs are also how I share my work with others online, linking to my blog posts at both <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnlineCrsLady\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+LauraGibbs\"><strong>Google+<\/strong><\/a>. And, most importantly, blogging is how I become a co-learner together with my students: they are writing in their blogs several times each week, and I am doing the same.<\/p>\n<p>This blog, for example, is my first WordPress blog; I usually use Blogger, and so do most of my students, but some of my students do use\u00a0WordPress, and now I will be able to learn some blogging nitty-gritty together with my WordPress students in the Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Since there is a WEC workshop next week at my school, that will probably be a good excuse to think some more about writing in general and blogging in particular, so after the flurry of posts about <a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/category\/grading\/\"><strong>grading<\/strong><\/a> this week and last, next week will be about something more fun: writing.\u00a0Are you an OU faculty member? Come join in; you can find out more and register here: <a href=\"http:\/\/us3.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=7e4288bb05844e0fe5ee656f6&amp;id=ecd606dcc6&amp;e=02ff2790a7\"><strong>Online Mini Course: Writing Enriched Curriculum<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>HAPPY FRIDAY, EVERYBODY!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wec-e1481325292826.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-232 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wec-e1481325292826.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, as always, this is crossposted at <strong>OU Canvas Community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Fall semester today! Grades are turned in, students are congratulated&#8230; and while they might fretting about finals next week, I am thinking about the fun things I get to do between now and January when classes will start up for me again. And one of the fun things I will get to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/writing\/fall-semester-blog-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fall Semester: Blog Success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}