{"id":820,"date":"2016-03-11T11:02:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2016-03-12T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T17:17:07","slug":"what-im-reading-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Spring Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Break is coming up and hopefully I will be able to finish reading a few of the books that I have started. Right now I am reading two books: Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools by Michael B. Horn and Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning by Matthew Farber.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read Disrupting Class a few years ago and Blended gives actual application of the &#8220;disruptive&#8221; education that they talk about. I haven&#8217;t read much of Blended, but so far it has been a good read and there are also links to videos of blended learning in action in classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read any of Gamify Your Classroom yet but am interested in how games, leaderboards and badges could be used in the classroom or with teachers as a professional development tool.<\/p>\n<p>(Full disclousre:\u00a0Clicking on these books takes you to Amazon via my\u00a0Amazon Associates account.)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=jdwil09-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1118955153&amp;asins=1118955153&amp;linkId=C3NHJDXNZD25GX5D&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe>\u00a0\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=jdwil09-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1433126702&amp;asins=1433126702&amp;linkId=L7ASYPNPDLKOLYGC&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Featured Image Attribution:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ginnerobot\/2549674296\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ginnerobot\/2549674296<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Break is coming up and hopefully I will be able to finish reading a few of the books that I have started. Right now I am reading two books: Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools by Michael B. Horn and Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning by Matthew Farber. I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}