There are 18 posts previously published on April 27th
- 2023
- The Allure of Mastodon Since November I’ve been toying around with Mastodon on Reclaim Cloud. At first it was to take up the gauntlet thrown, and see if I could create a space for the ds106 community. I did a bunch of work for … Continue reading
- 2021
- bava 3500 https://twitter.com/mbransons/status/570951362994954240 Seems like just 100 posts ago I was writing about the bava 3400, oh how time and blog posts fly by. Not sure why 3500 posts feels like a landmark to me, but who am I to fight the … Continue reading
- Reclaim Hosting does an OERxDomains21 Debrief Several members of the Reclaim Hosting team who chipped into the OERxDomains21 conference effort took some time out yesterday to reflect on the experience for episode 29 of Reclaim Today. We did a similar therapy thing after OER19, so it … Continue reading
- 2020
- Playing with the Data Transfer Project I wanted to get one more post out about another project I have been playing with these days. While attending the MyData conference in 2018 I saw a presentation from folks at Google about the Data Transfer Project (DTP). The … Continue reading
- The Ghost of bava This is kind of a record keeping post, it turns out when you’ve been blogging for nearly 15 years posts can be useful to remind you of what you did years earlier that you presently have no recollection of. It’s … Continue reading
- Running the bava’s DNS through Cloudflare So, one of the themes of 2020 for me (even before the virus) has been experimenting with the hosting of my blog. Back in January I moved my blog away from shared hosting on Reclaim to its own server on … Continue reading
- 2018
- Reclaim Video’s World Premiere at #OER18 The road to Reclaim Video has been both an interesting and telling one. Less than a year ago it was still just an idea baby lurking menacingly under the surface of Crystal Lake. The “vision” was hatched while we were … Continue reading
- 2017
- Michigan State University Domains: “No Scholarly Activity without a Digital Artefact” I have been dying to catch up with the good folks at Michigan State University and talk about the work they’re doing on the ground with their domains project. I was quite struck by Chris Long‘s ability to so brilliantly … Continue reading
- #OER17 Karaoke Replay Last week I did a ds106radio show highlighting some of the songs that were karaoke’d at the #OER17 after party. I had a blast that evening because I enjoy karaoke to no end, and I was able to share the … Continue reading
- Algorythmic Radio: Episode 1 – “1987” Earlier this week I started a new radio show titled “Algorythmic Radio” on ds106radio. I plan on doing one or two shows a week until I get tired of it. I have no real reason beyond the fact that I … Continue reading
- 2012
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad On Saturday, May 5 at 2 PM The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) is playing at the Library of Congress, Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia and Miles and I are going to see it. That’s final. I just called to … Continue reading
- Civil Rights Leader James Farmer’s UMW Lectures Online More than five years ago I started working with UMW’s archivist Carolyn Parsons to try and digitize James Farmer’s video lecture series recorded here at UWM in 1983. The lecture series was pretty awesome, and it basically revolved around James … Continue reading
- Sarah Kountz is a ds106 Kung-Fu Master Sarah Kountz may be the most consistently creative student I’ve yet to see in #ds106. The class has been over for her for more than a year, but she keeps on going with regular assignments of awesome. Take a look … Continue reading
- Proto-MOOCs Rock! Steve Kolowich of Inside Higher Ed wrote piece on #ds106 titled “Proto-Mooc Stays the Course”, and what I enjoyed about this article is he actually took the time and energy to try and get his head around the multi-headed hydra … Continue reading
- 2010
- UMW Study Abroad Blogs: A Case Study in Aggregated Self Service Remember when the gas pumps moved from attended to self service? Well, if you’re not from dirty Jersey and you happen to be old enough you might remember this transition, and for me it was a special one. I always … Continue reading
- 2009
- Young Gun for Hire: A DTLT Graduate In less than a week’s time Serena Epstein will be graduating from UMW, and will therefore no longer be working for the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies. And even though we fight like cats and dogs, it pains me … Continue reading
- The Swine Flu in 1976? The fearless Anand Rao just tweeted a link to two Public Service Announcements from 1976 about the Swine Flu (via the Daily Beast). They are pretty awesome, the 70s aesthetic is absolutely one of my favorites of all time. I … Continue reading
- 2008
- Classic horror movies on the Atari 2600 I have been using emulation to give my twelve-year old neighbor the people’s history of classic video games and home consoles (much more on both the emulation and the history shortly). While preparing these rigorous classes, I came across a … Continue reading
This page uses Alan’s wp-posted-today: WordPress plugin provides shortcode for displaying posts published on current day. Like John Johnston before me, I find it fascinating to see what I posted when over the long tenure of this blog. And again, like John, “it also allows me to do some digital gardening, mending broken images and links as I wander through my past.”
