Category Archives: Domain of One’s Own

Humans in the Afterglow

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Reverend

Almost two weeks ago I presented at Baruch College about the history of the web in edtech. I focus in particular on web publishing in higher ed, and I explore the early tilde spaces for HTML authoring as well as … Continue reading →

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Reclaim Your Workshop

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Reverend

On Wednesday morning I’m facilitating a workshop at the Sloan-C conference titled “Reclaiming your Domain.” Here’s the abstract: This workshop will provide attendees a focused session to get up and running with a domain name and web hosting account. By … Continue reading →

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Domain of One’s Own: as Limitless as the Web

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Reverend

UMW’s Domain of One’s Own is the focus of David Raths’s recent article “An E-Portfolio With No Limits” in Campus Technology. I have to immediately note how impressed I was with his reporting. Raths did his research; reached out to several … Continue reading →

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Re-routing Cyberinfrastructures

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Reverend

Mike Caulfield has a really interesting post on the future of personal cyperinfrastructures. The crux of the argument is while Domain of One’s Own is right, true and beautiful, no one really wants to manage their own bit of a … Continue reading →

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Domains in (Stop) Motion

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Reverend

On Friday Martha Burtis made an amazing bit of stop-motion animation for the Domain of One’s Own project. It was designed for the EagleVision digital signage we have up around campus as a way to promote the project—explaining the absence … Continue reading →

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Reclaim the Handout

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Reverend

Ryan Brazell shared the prep work he did last week framing UMW’s various digital projects for the AAC&U Diversity, Learning, and Student Success conference in Chicago. Just yesterday he presented alongside Tim Owens and Mary Kayler on UMW Domains, the Online Learning … Continue reading →

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Teaching & Technology in the Afterglow at Baruch College

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Reverend

I want to share my impressions of Baruch’s 17th Annual Teaching and Technology Conference before the sun sets on my memory and the experience dissipates in the afterglow of what was. I had a total blast doing it. I have deep personal ties and … Continue reading →

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Tilde as Approximation

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Reverend

This symbol (in English) sometimes means “approximately”, such as: “~30 minutes ago” meaning “approximately 30 minutes ago”. It can mean “similar to”, including “of the same order of magnitude as”, such as: “x ~ y” meaning that x and y are of the same order of magnitude. Another approximation symbol is ?, meaning “approximately … Continue reading →

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When User was Equal to Developer

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Reverend

Olia Lialina pointed me to this amazing post she wrote back in 2010 about what she has coded the “Prof. Dr.” style of webpages that can be dated back to 1993. In fact, the post is a tour-de-force of information … Continue reading →

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How the Web was Ghettoized for Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed?

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Reverend

Short answer: learning management systems. The above title was something I tweeted out last night when I finsihed the presentation I delivered yesterday at the Digital Media Learning 2014 conference. Maybe title of 15 minute presentation tomorrow should be “How … Continue reading →

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