{"id":122,"date":"2012-10-19T13:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T20:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2014-01-13T22:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T06:29:54","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/files\/2012\/10\/welcomes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-549\" style=\"width: 184px; height: 136px;\" alt=\"welcomes\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/files\/2012\/10\/welcomes-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Students &amp; Parents,<\/p>\n<p>I am very excited to introduce you to our classroom blog! Blogging is a skill that I would like my students to learn, especially as a &#8220;21st Century&#8221; learner. Helping them to become more &#8220;tech savvy&#8221; is very important in today\u2019s world. Student blogging is powerful, enriching, and stimulating. This is just another interesting and motivating avenue for them to express themselves and to learn: from sharing their artwork, to responding to stories\/novels read either as a class, in groups (literature circles) or independently, to providing feedback and comments and to accessing links to educational sites.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, there are always concerns regarding misuse of the blog. As a teacher and &#8220;manager&#8221; of this blog, I will be monitoring all comments that are posted and will only allow appropriate comments to be displayed (comments do not automatically post. I receive an e-mail notification that there has been a comment.) Also, there are strict guidelines to follow, which you can read on the Guidelines page of our blog. Please review these with your child. For privacy issues, I will ask students to not share last names when they post comments or respond to questions I have asked.\u00a0 Students will be given their own personal login name and password they can use to post on our blog.\u00a0 I am hoping both parents and students will enjoy interacting on our blog by posting comments.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit our \u00a0blog from time to time or ask your child if I have posted up anything new.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a great place to see what\u00a0your child\u00a0 has been doing in school and to hear their thoughts.\u00a0 \u00a0I am hoping it will be a positive experience for all!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Gabas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dear Students &amp; Parents, I am very excited to introduce you to our classroom blog! Blogging is a skill that I would like my students to learn, especially as a &#8220;21st Century&#8221; learner. Helping them to become more &#8220;tech savvy&#8221; is very important in today\u2019s world. Student blogging is powerful, enriching, and stimulating. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/welcome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1642,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}