{"id":3009,"date":"2019-01-23T02:37:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T02:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2019-01-23T02:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T02:37:29","slug":"introduction-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/2019\/01\/23\/introduction-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name is Kate Cookson. I am recently changing my major and am looking at the integrative studies program. This program allows you to choose two focus areas, so as of now I have decided the focuses to be English, and Communication Studies. I do not have a complete set plan on what I want to do for a career yet but hopefully soon I can be more confident and set in what I want to do. I am due to graduate in spring 2019 so I better figure it out quick! I currently work as a preschool Teacher when I am not in school.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Honestly technology and I have never molded together very well, I at times feel like an old lady when asked from elders how to work things on computers\/phones. I know how to do most things but past the basics I am not very skilled. I took this class hoping that I could advance my skills and try to push myself to get with the times of technology. I am intrigued by the set up and different website than the normal blackboard. I am also nervous for the same reason, because this new website is not something that I am use too and feel that I may be lost at times. But I\u2019m excited to begin this semester and take on this new challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name is Kate Cookson. I am recently changing my major and am looking at the integrative studies program. This program allows you to choose two focus areas, so as of now I have decided the focuses to be English, and Communication Studies. I do not have a complete set plan on what I want to do for a career yet but hopefully soon I can be more confident and set in what I want to do. I am due to graduate in spring 2019 so I better figure it out quick! I currently work as a preschool Teacher when I am not in school. &nbsp; Honestly technology and I have never molded together very well, I at times feel like an old lady when asked from elders how to work things on computers\/phones. I know how to do most things but past the basics I am not very skilled. I took this class hoping that I could advance my skills and try to push myself to get with the times of technology. I am intrigued by the set up and different website than the normal blackboard. I am also nervous for the same reason, because this new website is not something that I am use too and feel that I may be lost at times. But I\u2019m excited to begin this semester and take on this new challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}