{"id":9390,"date":"2008-09-22T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T16:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-12-11T12:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:37:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About This Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>CAT FooD (for thought)<\/cite> is a blog which is written by the faculty and staff of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/\">Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development<\/a>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xula.edu\/\">Xavier University of Louisiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We focus on a variety of topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/food\/topic\/brightspace\/\">Brightspace Small Plates<\/a> provides guidance and practical information on using Brightspace. Managing your course management system before it manages you!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/food\/topic\/service\/\">Service Learning Lynx<\/a> collects pointers to material around the web on the subject of service learning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/food\/topic\/social\/\">Sociable Feast<\/a> is a collection of notes and links on the social media phenomenon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/food\/podcast\/\"><i>Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else<\/i><\/a> is a podcast \u2014\u00a0a series of audio programs distributed over the internet. This content is so special, it has <a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/tlee\/\">its very own informational page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAT FooD (for thought) is a blog which is written by the faculty and staff of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development\u00a0at Xavier University of Louisiana. 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