{"id":114505,"date":"2020-03-27T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=114505"},"modified":"2020-08-07T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:36:13","slug":"kapiolani-inspirational-welcome-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/27\/kapiolani-inspirational-welcome-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapi\u2018olani <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> students receive inspirational welcome back"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_67767\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ksEv-SMFCiQ?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Kapiolani CC students receive inspirational welcome back\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Students in one of <strong>Palakiko Yagodich<\/strong>\u2019s classes received a warm welcome back in the form of a video from the <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College assistant professor near the end of the spring break.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_114518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114518\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kapiolani-yagodich-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kapiolani-yagodich-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kapiolani-yagodich-98x130.jpg 98w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kapiolani-yagodich.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palakiko Yagodich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his homespun, local style, from a garden-like setting, he issued a soothing invitation to the new reality of remote classes.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Yagodich explains how his planning shifted when the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> decided to extend online classes until the end of the semester, and he encourages the students not to worry and to stay tuned.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yagodich also told <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Chancellor <strong>Louise Pagotto<\/strong> that he had developed a new level of respect for online teachers.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, &ldquo;I (am) trying to do more with online technology, not just announcements, but lessons, zoom class sessions, online testing, projects, homework, assignments, etc. I (am) excited to take my teaching abilities to the next level. Watch me \ud83d\ude42  Let&#8217;s do this!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Assistant Professor Palakiko Yagodich provided a warm welcome back video at the end of spring break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[1411,1419,63,71,56],"class_list":["post-114505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-online-instruction","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114505"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124588,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114505\/revisions\/124588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}