{"id":184,"date":"2011-10-16T21:45:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T03:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2021-10-09T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T03:55:12","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-189\" title=\"profile photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/profile-photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/profile-photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/profile-photo-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/profile-photo.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jim Stauffer is a <em>former<\/em> community adult educator with Aurora College, transferred to the college&#8217;s pilot Centre for Teaching and Learning in 2020 when the pandemic forced a pivot to emergency remote learning.\u00a0 Opinions expressed on this blog are Jim&#8217;s own, and not moderated or even necessarily endorsed by Aurora College. He lives and teaches in an isolated, fly-in community in Canada&#8217;s Northwest Territories.\u00a0 He is getting to know his way around education having made a mid-life career switch in 2008, and has earned a certificate in adult education and a masters in learning and technology, mainly through distance education.<\/p>\n<p>I am totally sold on on-line learning of almost every flavour &#8211; <strong><em>for myself<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0 MOOCc, self-learning, credit courses, they are the near-perfect answer to my geographical isolation. Connecting with others who have similar interests is a very rewarding educational experience.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=107100299236028097962.00049152a2d932bb8f013&amp;ll=57.136239,-97.207031&amp;spn=33.980163,74.707031&amp;z=3&amp;output=embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Stauffer is a former community adult educator with Aurora College, transferred to the college&#8217;s pilot Centre for Teaching and Learning in 2020 when the pandemic forced a pivot to emergency remote learning.\u00a0 Opinions expressed on this blog are Jim&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-184","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1xsA3-2Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}