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Tag Archives: domain of one’s own
Has the Time Arrived for Hosted Lifebits?
I’m a big fan of Kin Lane‘s for many reasons: he’s west coast cool, he’s passionate about what he believes in, he’s a technical wizard, and he wraps that all up with some intense creativity and vision. What one might … Continue reading
Talking Domains All Semester Long
One of the many cool things Cathy Derecki did while at UMW was create EagleEye, a weekly faculty and staff online newsletter about what’s happening in the community. The site runs in the umw.edu in WordPress on our umw.edu install, … Continue reading
The Many Faces of Domain
It’s going to take several posts to try and capture the unbelievable experience that was the Domain Incubator held at Emory University this past weekend—mad kudos to Pete Rorabough and David Morgen for putting on a stellar event. This post will try … Continue reading
Cyborg Tactic
This post has been updated with two amazing animated GIFs by the ever brilliant Michael Branson Smith. “The main trouble with cyborgs” she [Donna Haraway] reminds us, ”is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not … Continue reading
Playing Host to Higher Ed’s Long Overdue Web Party
My last post got me thinking about some pretty basic ideas when it comes to some of the approaches for edtech I’ve been going on about recently. Cheap commodity web hosting has been around for roughly fifteen years. There’s nothing … Continue reading
Considering Running Domain of One’s Own on Your Campus?
Well then, Martha Burtis, Tim Owens, and Ryan Brazell have been doing a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Below are a series of resources that we have shared with people who are inquiring about running UMW Domains on … Continue reading
Trojan Horses in the Afterglow at Sloan-C
I had a pretty intense day at the Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Conference on Thursday. (It actually took me two days to recover mentally). I presented a workshop first thing in the morning on how to “Reclaim Your Domain.” There were about 15-20 … Continue reading
Humans in the Afterglow
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
Reclaim Your Workshop
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
Domains in (Stop) Motion
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