{"id":744,"date":"2010-08-07T11:25:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T18:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2010-08-07T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T18:25:41","slug":"retiring-on-sept1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2010\/08\/07\/retiring-on-sept1\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring on Sept1!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, at the end of this month I will be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iweb.langara.bc.ca\/acooper\/2010\/08\/06\/retiring-on-sept1\/\"> retiring from Langara<\/a>, where I have been teaching for many years. I will miss the daily interaction with colleagues and students, but am looking forward to having more time for expanding my horizons and learning new things.<\/p>\n<p>This Summer I participated in Stephen Downes and Rita Kop&#8217;s\u00a0 on-line &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/ple.elg.ca\/course\/\">Critical Literacies<\/a>&#8216; course (#CritLit2010) &#8211; partly with a view to increasing my networking skills, and also attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.pf.jcu.cz\/~cadgme2010\/\">CADGME<\/a> conference on Computer Algebra Systems and Dynamic Geometry in Math Education &#8211; to get some idea of whether there are still any legs left on either my <a href=\"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/math\/applets\/GeX\/info\/\">GX2 java project<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/math\/resources\">College Math Resources<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>But I am also looking forward to deeper reading in some of the other areas that I occasionally touch on here &#8211; and maybe even eventually coming up with something useful to say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, at the end of this month I will be\u00a0 retiring from Langara, where I have been teaching for many years. I will miss the daily interaction with colleagues and students, but am looking forward to having more time for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2010\/08\/07\/retiring-on-sept1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}