{"id":5546,"date":"2019-01-25T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=5546"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:05:42","slug":"beginning-of-the-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2019\/01\/25\/beginning-of-the-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning of the semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re hoping your classes are off to a great start! While things are fresh and you&#8217;re full of ideas, we&#8217;d like to encourage you to reach out to us with any thoughts you may have for Assignments, Class Projects, Workshops and in Class activities. Please talk to us if you&#8217;d like to try something new, or have seen something a colleague has done that your class might benefit from.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/its\/its-staff#at\">Academic Technology team<\/a> is eager to help guide you to a tool that works or help you think through the process of incorporating a technology in class.\u00a0 Need an iPad, want to use a blog, try out a video essay, poster, or storytelling project we&#8217;re here to help.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeremy Polk &#8211; Media Center<\/li>\n<li>John Word &#8211; Language Center<\/li>\n<li>Russell Priogdich &#8211; MakerSpace<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Ruether &#8211; Academic Technology (Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Turner &#8211; Academic Technology (Humanities)<\/li>\n<li>Doug Willen &#8211;\u00a0Academic Technology (Social Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>Corrine Schoeb &#8211; Universal Design\/Accessibility<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jones &#8211; Language, Media Center and MakerSpace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re hoping your classes are off to a great start! While things are fresh and you&#8217;re full of ideas, we&#8217;d like to encourage you to reach out to us with any thoughts you may have for Assignments, Class Projects, Workshops &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2019\/01\/25\/beginning-of-the-semester\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beginning of the semester<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":5551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/video-essays.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1rs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}