{"id":3446,"date":"2017-02-05T20:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T04:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2017-02-10T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T23:13:54","slug":"dear-ipad-i-love-your-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2017\/02\/05\/dear-ipad-i-love-your-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear iPad, I love your Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear iPad,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3449\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-05-at-4.22.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"52\" height=\"48\" \/>Where would I be without you? Your sleekness, swiftness, and your willingness to adapt to my needs are just a few of your qualities that keep me coming back for more. Yet I have to say that one of my favorite things about you is your willingness to teach me through <a href=\"https:\/\/appleteacher.apple.com\/desktop\/#\/home\/resources\/featured\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Teacher<\/a>. You&#8217;ve thought of everything that I could possibly\u00a0want to learn about you &#8211; iPad, Mac, and Swift Playgrounds.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3449\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-05-at-4.22.14-PM.png\" width=\"67\" height=\"62\" \/>\u00a0And you&#8217;re so patient! You&#8217;ve given me a guidebook that I can read at my leisure, come back to time and time again and then once I feel confident, you let me earn badges to show what I&#8217;ve learned. I love those badges! You know I could go to a class, or try and ask someone about you but you make it so easy for me to learn on my own time. Then I get to check for understanding and rake in those sweet badges. Did I mention I love those badges?<\/p>\n<p>Yours forever,<\/p>\n<p>xoxo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear iPad, Where would I be without you? Your sleekness, swiftness, and your willingness to adapt to my needs are just a few of your qualities that keep me coming back for more. Yet I have to say that one <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2017\/02\/05\/dear-ipad-i-love-your-badges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Dear iPad, I love your Badges<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":3451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"sent","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"2017-02-05 21:19:57","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}