{"id":49,"date":"2016-10-15T19:04:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/?p=49"},"modified":"2016-10-15T19:04:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T19:04:29","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/2016\/10\/15\/and-so-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Lao Tzu &#8211;<\/b>\u00a0The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.<\/p>\n<p>I am all about the learning journey, and I have started on a big one today at Cohort21. I learned a lot, mostly about how far behind I feel with things like Diigo and Twitter. I find it interesting that I was a little ahead of the curve when Twitter first came out and I asked if I could use it to have reluctant class participants ask their questions and share their ideas electronically. It wasn&#8217;t in the cards then &#8211; maybe now?<\/p>\n<p>I really appreciate all the help that fellow members, coaches, and facilitators offered today and promise to give in the weeks and months to come. I am very excited to work on the art and craft of teaching &#8211; I am a believer in the idea of teaching as an art, a craft, a trade like masonry or weaving in the sense of requiring lifelong learning and refinement. I cannot wait to work on an action plan to help me to be a better teacher and to learn and grow with my colleagues and students. I really love to learn about learning and the wonderful subjects that I get to teach.<\/p>\n<p>I am energized by the excitement of everyone and hope that I can share my own with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lao Tzu &#8211;\u00a0The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. I am all about the learning journey, and I have started on a big one today at Cohort21. I learned a lot, mostly about how far behind I feel with things like Diigo and Twitter. I find it interesting that I was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/2016\/10\/15\/and-so-it-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And so it begins&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/danbailey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}