{"id":297,"date":"2010-02-20T01:40:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T01:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-02-20T01:40:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T01:40:46","slug":"140-we-used-to-do-it-in-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"140?  We Used to Do it in 8!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a funny, when-I-was-their-age moment.  I had found my way to this <a href=\"http:\/\/teachersnetwork.org\/ntol\/howto\/incorptech\/index.htm\">Teachers Network website<\/a> and saw this headline: IF U CN RD THS U CN LRN TO RITE, which linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/teachersnetwork.org\/ntol\/howto\/incorptech\/texting.htm\">an article<\/a> about adding a twist to the typical &#8220;what I did this summer&#8221; essay by having students start with texting their responses. For some reason, I flashed to an old, rainy day worksheet I used to have that gave a list of vanity license plates that the kids had to decipher.  Maybe they represent the original text messaging, and a little googling showed that having students create personalized license plates for themselves or other characters was a popular lesson plan.  Everything old is new again, this time around with a few more characters allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a funny, when-I-was-their-age moment. I had found my way to this Teachers Network website and saw this headline: IF U CN RD THS U CN LRN TO RITE, which linked to an article about adding a twist to the typical &#8220;what I did this summer&#8221; essay by having students start with texting their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">140?  We Used to Do it in 8!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,8,9,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-new-media","category-old-media","category-technology"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-4N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}