{"id":2069,"date":"2021-06-13T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:23:54","slug":"day-13-acronyms-i-could-do-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/day-13-acronyms-i-could-do-without\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 13: Acronyms I could do without"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who does instructional design, I bet you&#8217;d guess this would be an opportunity for me to slam ADDIE, or SCORM, or some other ID\/edtech punching bag. Nope. This time around I&#8217;m going to leave them alone because, at least as acronyms, they work. Working in higher ed and ID\/edtech in particular you run into so many initialisms pretending to be acronyms. So the acronyms I can do without are actually all the initialisms. I have nothing against the organization, but STLHE would be one example. If I can&#8217;t easily recognize how to pronounce it\/everyone I know pronounces it differently it completely defeats the point.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: being in Canada and participating in this challenge is great because I get to see others&#8217; answers early in the day. I think Nick Black hit today&#8217;s challenge on the head<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Day 13 of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JuneEdTechChallenge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JuneEdTechChallenge<\/a> Acronyms I could do without. Just one at the moment&#8230;<br \/>\nCOVID <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/edtech?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#edtech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Black (@NickBlack423) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickBlack423\/status\/1404129623584169985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who does instructional design, I bet you&#8217;d guess this would be an opportunity for me to slam ADDIE, or SCORM, or some other ID\/edtech punching bag. Nope. This time around I&#8217;m going to leave them alone because, at least as acronyms, they work. Working in higher ed and ID\/edtech in particular you run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-juneedtechchallenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/files\/2021\/06\/day13juneedtechchallenge.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}