{"id":31,"date":"2014-10-20T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/?p=31"},"modified":"2014-10-20T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:46:39","slug":"getting-set-up-for-cohort-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/2014\/10\/20\/getting-set-up-for-cohort-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Set Up for Cohort 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/72\/files\/2014\/10\/connections.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/72\/files\/2014\/10\/connections.jpg\" alt=\"social media network background with icons vector\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/files\/2014\/10\/connections.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/files\/2014\/10\/connections-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/files\/2014\/10\/connections-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever been this happy\u00a0to be awake early on a Saturday morning since I was 6 years old and watching Barney. The first cohort 21 face to face meeting has been a great experience.\u00a0The tools I have been experimenting with today\u00a0will allow me\u00a0collaborate and share resources with educators around my city and around the world on an unbelievable scale.<\/p>\n<p>What was good about today? What was challenging about today? My answer to both of those questions is the volume of resources and connections. Over the next week I will\u00a0observe how others are using these tools and experiment with the different ways to optimally manage the avalanche of ideas. I am most excited about twitter. It will be great to have an insight into the thoughts of a group of the most forward thinking educational professionals in the world.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest take away from today is that\u00a0success comes when you experiment with all of the tools and choose the ones that work for you. This is what the next few weeks will be for me. Immersing myself in social media by participating in twitter conversions, convincing my team\u00a0to join me on Diigo, and contributing to Google Communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever been this happy\u00a0to be awake early on a Saturday morning since I was 6 years old and watching Barney. The first cohort 21 face to face meeting has been a great experience.\u00a0The tools I have been experimenting with today\u00a0will allow me\u00a0collaborate and share resources with educators around my city and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/2014\/10\/20\/getting-set-up-for-cohort-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting Set Up for Cohort 21&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}