{"id":216,"date":"2013-02-28T15:51:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T15:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/?p=216"},"modified":"2013-05-07T23:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T23:51:36","slug":"the-light-bulb-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/2013\/02\/28\/the-light-bulb-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light Bulb Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided to throw my hat into the Google ring and apply to the <a title=\"Google Teacher Academy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/edu\/teachers\/google-teacher-academy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google Teacher Academy<\/a>\u00a0(to be held in Sydney, Australia this May)\u00a0for an opportunity to be part of their intensive, multi-day, professional development, tech event. \u00a0Applicants apply from all over the world for their chance to join this community of innovative educators.<\/p>\n<p>Only 50 applicants will be selected.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-align: center\" href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2013\/02\/google-certified-teacher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-240 alignleft\" alt=\"google-certified-teacher\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2013\/02\/google-certified-teacher-300x216.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2013\/02\/google-certified-teacher-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2013\/02\/google-certified-teacher-400x289.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2013\/02\/google-certified-teacher.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>Educators who participate in the Google Teacher Academy become Google Certified Teachers (GCTs).<\/p>\n<p>The rigorous application process proved to be an excellent exercise in reflecting on my current professional practice.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the application to the Google Teacher Academy, applicants conceive, create, and post a video addressing a pre-selected theme. \u00a0For my application I selected &#8220;Motivation and Learning&#8221;. \u00a0Below is my entry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Light Bulb Moment\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p8YwyAs5xw4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided to throw my hat into the Google ring and apply to the Google Teacher Academy\u00a0(to be held in Sydney, Australia this May)\u00a0for an opportunity to be part of their intensive, multi-day, professional development, tech event. \u00a0Applicants apply from all over the world for their chance to join this community of innovative educators. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/2013\/02\/28\/the-light-bulb-moment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Light Bulb Moment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,27,29],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gtasyd","tag-google","tag-pd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}