{"id":214,"date":"2015-01-02T07:18:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/?p=214"},"modified":"2015-01-11T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T07:39:40","slug":"lets-see-what-this-thing-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/2015\/214","title":{"rendered":"Let’s see what this thing can do…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the hardest things to get students to do – especially high school students who have learnt that writing is boring – is to just sit down and write, dammit. Platforms get in the way because, to be “21st century,” it needs to be published and open for other people to see…unless you’re a nut job…you can’t see it. Better put it in the LMS so I can easily assign a grade, etc.<\/p>\n

Something like this makes much more sense. Why shouldn’t I host my own student’s content? Well, I tried that one year, and to be honest, it made me never want to be a system admin. Managing 150+ student blogs, all connected back to a class blog through a\u00a0really<\/em> bad implementation of a WPMU site was a mistake. Buuut…<\/p>\n

Something like this – no login, no saving, no version management – makes it easy to sit down and just write. I’ll be over on GitHub, if you need anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the hardest things to get students to do – especially high school students who have learnt that writing is boring – is to just sit down and write, dammit. Platforms get in the way because, to be “21st century,” it needs to be published and open for other people to see…unless you’re a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd-ideas","category-published","tag-nice"],"splot_meta":{"author":"Oh Hey Brian","license":"","footer":"I did this mostly to see what Alan kept on barking about, and to his credit, it rocks. I may be doing this one my own."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}