{"id":724,"date":"2013-09-12T21:20:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T03:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2013-09-12T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T03:20:51","slug":"why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/12\/why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Why Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have been debating whether to register for POTCert again.\u00a0 Tempting to keep my evenings for leisure until demands of work increase – as they surely will in another month.\u00a0 Should I engage when in all likelihood I won’t complete all the modules nor blog every week?<\/p>\n

Well, why not?\u00a0 Staying connected just has too much value to worry about saving face.\u00a0 I’ve already defended participation for it’s own sake (http:\/\/wp.me\/s1xsA3-dropout<\/a>).\u00a0 Besides exploring the possibilities of Google Sites that this year is revealing, I’m looking forward to exchanging ideas and adapting what I learn to my unconventional situation and technological challenges.<\/p>\n

I teach Adult Literacy and upgrading in What\u00ec<\/a>, a tiny fly-in community in Canada’s Northwest Territories. In spite of 20th-century infrastructure, the Internet permits global learning connections for those tenacious enough to persist.<\/p>\n

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Have been debating whether to register for POTCert again.\u00a0 Tempting to keep my evenings for leisure until demands of work increase – as they surely will in another month.\u00a0 Should I engage when in all likelihood I won’t complete all … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-potcert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xsA3-bG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}