{"id":3139,"date":"2024-08-27T19:34:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T23:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2024-09-03T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T12:32:26","slug":"my-technology-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/2024\/08\/27\/my-technology-autobiography\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lifelong Love Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"user-profile user-profile--speaker\">\n<div class=\"user-profile__container\">\n<div class=\"user-profile__about\">\n<div>I have had a love affair with technology since I touched my first computer in 1983 (or maybe even earlier when my dad bought an Atari0. In the late 1980s, I put that passion to work when I taught my students how to use Print Shop to create bookmarks and my fellow English teachers how to use a word processor to create handouts. I have never looked back and after almost 35 years still finds technology fun and fascinating!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I lives and work from a small farm in Sussex County and until 2022 year, served as Executive Director of the Virginia Society for Technology in Education. In between gardening, reading, crafting and playing music, I creates online learning experiences for several nonprofits, teach for University of Richmond and Old Dominion University and create and facilitate professional development workshops.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a love affair with technology since I touched my first computer in 1983 (or maybe even earlier when my dad bought an Atari0. In the late 1980s, I put that passion to work when I taught my students how to use Print Shop to create bookmarks and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69439,69451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2024","category-technology-autobiography-2024","column","twocol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MRuH-OD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/schooltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}