{"id":9,"date":"2014-06-02T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/?p=9"},"modified":"2014-09-06T18:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T22:46:32","slug":"launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/2014\/06\/02\/launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Navigating the world of educational technology can be daunting. With so many paths to choose from and ladders to learn how to climb, it&#8217;s quite easy to become lost and frustrated.\u00a0When the educational technology world looks something like this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/files\/2014\/06\/online_communities_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/files\/2014\/06\/online_communities_2.png\" alt=\"XKCD Online Communities V2.0\" width=\"740\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/files\/2014\/06\/online_communities_2.png 740w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/files\/2014\/06\/online_communities_2-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">XKCD Online Communities V2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s no wonder many people are intimidated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>My #1 goal is to make your educational technology life easier.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this site I will be sharing success stories, compiling a database of helpful articles, and posting best practices. I\u00a0aim to meet you where you are and give you imminently practical ways you can integrate technology effectively into your classroom tomorrow, next semester,\u00a0and for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to hear from you when you:<br \/>\n1) <strong>Want to learn more:<\/strong> Are you not sure where to go with a particular tool? Have you heard of something you&#8217;d like to try, but don&#8217;t know where to start? Contact me.<br \/>\n2) <strong>Get frustrated:<\/strong> Right when you start to feel the beginning wave of frustration, reach out. I love solving EdTech problems.<br \/>\n3) <strong>Any time you want to reach out!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very excited to get to work!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Josh<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jseamon@williston.com\">jseamon@williston.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigating the world of educational technology can be daunting. With so many paths to choose from and ladders to learn how to climb, it&#8217;s quite easy to become lost and frustrated.\u00a0When the educational technology world looks something like this: &#8230;it&#8217;s no wonder many people are intimidated. My #1 goal is to make your educational technology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/2014\/06\/02\/launch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Launch!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4H0Ue-launch","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}