{"id":1913,"date":"2020-03-08T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2020-03-08T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T18:28:00","slug":"time-for-some-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2020\/03\/08\/time-for-some-pd\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for some PD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been awhile since I taught a digital marketing course at <a href=\"http:\/\/kpu.ca\">my university<\/a>. It was such a fun class! My third-year students all helped one another (and me) keep abreast of new apps and innovations &#8211; literally on a weekly basis; there was no other way to be up to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I spend a good part of every day online and communicating professionally and personally via social media, I am now oh so woefully behind and would be utterly unprepared to teach that class again &#8211; without a ton of professional development. So, it is back to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hootsuite.com\/\">Hootsuite&#8217;s marvelous array of blogs and resources<\/a> for me. That company&#8217;s writers are a godsend. This morning I am slowly exploring <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hootsuite.com\/author\/tony-tran\/\">Tony Tran<\/a>&#8216;s post on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hootsuite.com\/best-social-media-apps-list\/\">21 of the Best Social Media Apps for Marketers in 2020<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; at least half of which I&#8217;ve never heard of before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now I&#8217;m having fun going back and forth between <a href=\"https:\/\/crello.com\/home\/\">Crello<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/canva.com\">Canva<\/a>, easy-to-play-with graphic-design apps (I&#8217;m challenged in that universe). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/basil-communications.png?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/basil-communications.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/basil-communications.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/basil-communications.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been awhile since I taught a digital marketing course at my university. It was such a fun class! My third-year students all helped one another (and me) keep abreast of new apps and innovations &#8211; literally on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2020\/03\/08\/time-for-some-pd\/\">Continue reading <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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,42,43,93],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-apps","tag-for-educators","tag-for-students","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}