{"id":250,"date":"2013-01-31T09:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/instructionadventures.wordpress.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2013-01-31T09:31:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T15:31:34","slug":"random-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/2013\/01\/31\/random-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Random reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought I would mention that i was in a meeting the other day for which the other attendees were prepared, and the subject was teaching philosophies.\u00a0 Up until that time, i did not think i had a teaching philosophy, but when a &#8220;six word philosophical statement&#8221; was shared with the group, i almost immediately came up with mine.\u00a0 &#8220;Bouncing ideas from student to student.&#8221;\u00a0 All we need to do is keep what is bouncing more or less in bounds, and show students the tools and how to use them.\u00a0 I really admire what i see happening with the professional staff here.\u00a0 Certainly a worthy aim, this library instruction, and i am happy to think of all the competent information consumers being spawned on this campus.<\/p>\n<p>I also sat in on a portion of a class taught by Michael Pearce, who took the students (and me) on a 360 degree tour of the basic Scout page.\u00a0 Picked up some valuable tips, and now all i need to do is find them again, my constant problem.\u00a0 Practice, practice, practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought I would mention that i was in a meeting the other day for which the other attendees were prepared, and the subject was teaching philosophies.\u00a0 Up until that time, i did not think i had a teaching philosophy, but when a &#8220;six word philosophical statement&#8221; was shared with the group, i almost immediately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/2013\/01\/31\/random-reflections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random reflections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}