{"id":787,"date":"2008-08-21T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2008\/08\/21\/welcome-back-8\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T10:39:00","slug":"welcome-back-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/welcome-back-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;ve been trying to find the time since Monday to post a &#8220;welcome back&#8221; message. I still miss the long summer holidays (as a Head of Department I was probably going to lose them anyway) and I know the &#8220;return to work&#8221; feeling that many of you will be currently experiencing. Anyway, welcome back!<\/p>\n<p>The summer holiday has been quite productive for the Computing team. We&#8217;ve progressed the <a href=\"http:\/\/hndim.blogspot.com\/\">HND Interactive Media development<\/a> and commenced the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/hnd-computer-games-development.html\">HND Computer Games Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be writing to centres in the near future with my usual annual update letter, although it won&#8217;t contain anything that readers of this blog won&#8217;t know about already. It&#8217;s a pity that I have to maintain the two forms of communication (web and traditional) since this places an extra burden on my team. I&#8217;m sure that the day is coming when update letters are a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if this blog was more interactive in the coming year. I&#8217;m pretty sure that it has a high readership but there is little use made of the comment facility (or the polling facility &#8211; the current poll has three votes) and that&#8217;s a pity because it&#8217;s one of the strengths of online communications.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to find the time since Monday to post a &#8220;welcome back&#8221; message. I still miss the long summer holidays (as a Head of Department I was probably going to lose them anyway) and I know the &#8220;return to work&#8221; feeling that many of you will be currently experiencing. Anyway, welcome back! The summer holiday has been quite productive for the Computing team. We&#8217;ve progressed the HND Interactive Media development and commenced the HND Computer Games Development. I&#8217;ll&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}