Category Archives: open source

Reclaiming Open with WordPress

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Reverend

https://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/978094073608159232 I woke up to a few tweets about Reclaim Hosting and the #deletefacebook movement. It’s been hard for me to get excited about Facebook either way. I see it as one of the more depressing malls of the web, … Continue reading →

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Installing and Customizing a Scalable WordPress Multisite with Linode’s StackScripts

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Reverend

I’ve been on a server admin crash course over the last 8 months or so, and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying myself. I have been fortunate to have the most patient and generous teacher I’ve ever studied under: the great Tim Owens. I truly … Continue reading →

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TIny Tiny RSS

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Reverend

It’s taken me more than six months to resurrect my RSS reader (pathetic, I know), but I’ve finally imported my forlorn collection of feeds into the open source application Tiny Tiny RSS. I went with this application based on a recommendation … Continue reading →

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Where’s all the Dominant Narratives at?

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Reverend

The MOOC Research conference has resulted in some really interesting discussions that are playing out right now, and I want to take a moment to try and capture a few of them. I’ll start with Michael Feldstein’s thoughtful post “Changing the … Continue reading →

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Open as a Power Relation

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Reverend

I’ve been co-teaching a True Crime course here at UMW (which is a blast), and last night we discussed Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. If any of you out there were in grad school during the 1990s or early ’00s … Continue reading →

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I Bleed CUNY Blood

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Reverend

Well, this past Friday was a real blast for me on many levels. First, I returned CUNY which was my old stomping ground for over 10 years, a place where I met some amazing people (many of whom are still … Continue reading →

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Mapping a domain within a mapped domain

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Reverend

So, I was wondering whether or not it would be possible to actually map a domain within a mapped domain on UMW Blogs, and I finally got my answer at the Faculty Academy workshop I ran on domain mapping. What … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Open Education course

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Reverend

(Jan) Philipp Schmidt of Peer 2 Peer University has organized an open course (along with Mozilla and ccLearn) focused on designing the “open educational platform of the future.” It’s a great idea for a course (especially a free one!), and … Continue reading →

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Google Apps to integrate with Moodle

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Reverend

Just saw this via Digizen: Google Apps Education Edition is coming to an open source learning management system near you. Moodlerooms, a Moodle partner, is launching a new enhancement to the open source LMS in collaboration with search giant Google … Continue reading →

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