{"id":1293,"date":"2009-03-18T20:23:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T01:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2017-08-19T12:14:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:14:28","slug":"word-of-the-week-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1293","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week: Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word of the week is <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/community\" target=_blank><strong>community<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a word I&#8217;ve been thinking about a lot lately, as I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of leaning on my own community over the past few weeks.  I&#8217;ve also been thinking about how new technologies and changes in society affect our idea of community.<\/p>\n<p>Today is Wednesday.  Since last Wednesday, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>attended a Bris for my cousin&#8217;s son.<\/li>\n<li>ended my 30-day mourning period for my mother.<\/li>\n<li>participated in a live reading of <em>The Comedy of Errors<\/em> with a group I found online.<\/li>\n<li>reconnected via e-mail with a close childhood friend I lost touch with 15 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>participated in a learning community seminar about 21rst century schools with my work colleagues. <\/li>\n<li>was called for an aliyah at the Bar Mitzvah of another cousin&#8217;s son.<\/li>\n<li>visited my sister in the hospital and held my 10-hour-old niece.<\/li>\n<li>conducted a day-long data workshop that helped a school identify a pervasive student learning problem.<\/li>\n<li>began teaching <i>The Merchant of Venice<\/i> to an 8th-grade class who will be creating a video project based on the play.<\/li>\n<li>joined Facebook.<\/li>\n<li>was invited to present at a conference at the Folger on teaching Shakespeare in the elementary school.<\/li>\n<li>participated in a webinar, cosponsored by the Folger and PBS, that brought together 176 Shakespeare teachers from across the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Traditional community structures such as family, school, religion, and professional networks are supplemented and even augmented (though never replaced) by technology and an increased focus on interconnectivity and collaboration.  What I learned this week, though, is that there&#8217;s no substitute for being there in person.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the world, Elena.  You have big shoes to fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word of the week is community. It&#8217;s a word I&#8217;ve been thinking about a lot lately, as I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of leaning on my own community over the past few weeks. I&#8217;ve also been thinking about how new technologies and changes in society affect our idea of community. Today is Wednesday. Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,16,111,82,41,40,123,81,25,46,3,101,87,13,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-education","category-family","category-folger","category-information-literacy","category-list","category-merchant-of-venice","category-pbs","category-reading-group","category-religion","category-shakespeare","category-teaching-matters","category-teaching-shakespeare","category-technology","category-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}