{"id":429,"date":"2014-01-13T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/?p=429"},"modified":"2014-01-13T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:01:11","slug":"429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/2014\/01\/13\/429\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my name is Cameron Forbes and iam a third year sociology student at uvic. I took ts 200 and have been wanting to take the next ts courses ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Iam interested in how emerging technologies can be applied to the education system. While the current education system works for many students i believe that with an updated approach to teaching and course planning the education system could be more effective. I am of the belief that instead of resisting new technology in the classroom we should be embracing its possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Iam also interested in the future of data presentation. Right now there is so much information in world and i think its important to find the best ways to illustrate the importance of the information.<\/p>\n<p>I also thinks that with the growing use of technology we must look at exactly how this constant use of technology effects our brains in the short term and long term.<\/p>\n<p>As for augmented reality iam interested in the latest oculus rift prototype.<\/p>\n<p>-https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yP1_chRdPIc&amp;feature=c4-overview-vl&amp;list=PLpndQ-APwbNW0iOqmP6EK8OOw2XCaJcTS<\/p>\n<p>Iam exited about the prospect of what this technology can be utilized for going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my name is Cameron Forbes and iam a third year sociology student at uvic. I took ts 200 and have been wanting to take the next ts courses ever since. Iam interested in how emerging technologies can be applied to the education system. While the current education system works for many students i believe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/2014\/01\/13\/429\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-site-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}