{"id":1128,"date":"2012-09-02T16:54:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/?page_id=1128"},"modified":"2013-11-26T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T14:51:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/?page_id=1128","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am an instructional technologist in higher education. I help faculty integrate technology into their teaching, and I also teach (a first year seminar, and Technology in Education) at my university. \u00a0I work with our student teachers on portfolio creation, and love what I do.<\/p>\n<p>I am the wife to one great guy and the mama to two great girls. Ingrid is in 2nd grade, and Willa is 3.5.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up in Grand Lake Stream, Maine, and I now live in Bangor, Maine.<\/p>\n<p>I blog about teaching, and running, and technology, and family, and once, <a title=\"The Case of the Missing Mollusks\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/?p=1675\">scallop gonads<\/a>. I don&#8217;t keep separate blogs or twitter accounts for the various things I am interested in, as I find that I can&#8217;t easily compartmentalize what I am passionate about. You can use the tag cloud or categories to filter out what interests you, if you&#8217;d rather skip over some of my posts. I merged several former blogs together in 2012, and have done my best to tag the old posts appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed here are my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an instructional technologist in higher education. I help faculty integrate technology into their teaching, and I also teach (a first year seminar, and Technology in Education) at my university. \u00a0I work with our student teachers on portfolio creation, and love what I do. I am the wife to one great guy and the [&hellip;]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1128","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1128\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gretchenschaefer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}