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Tag Archives: domain of one’s own
Domain of One’s Own Poster: Visualizing the Connections
So far we’ve had three different posters printed to promote the Domain of One’s Own initiative, and thanks to Giulia Forsythe we have yet another. Giulia’s visual not only captures all the complex facets and connections that this project represents … Continue reading
Domain of One’s Own: The Most Fantasmagorical Concept in the History of Everthing
Todd Conaway is like the mailman, he always delivers!
Domain of One’s Own: Weave Your Own Web
Michael Branson Smith took up my call for Domain of One’s Own posters, and his North by Northwest-inspired masterpiece is above. I love it. I am printing out posters of this asap!
Welcome to Cloud City…
Your domain is waiting for you Go to www.umwdomains.com to move in today. ______________________________________ The above poster is all Martha Burtis, and I love it! The visual is inspired by Cloud City from The Empire Strikes Back, and I love the … Continue reading
Reclaim Hosting: Battling Digital Somnabulism One Domain at a Time
A week after launching Reclaim Hosting it seems like the project has hit a broader, international nerve. By a conservative count Tim Owens and I did this morning , it looks like we’re going to need a bigger boat based on … Continue reading
DTLT Today: Episode 104, UMW’s Domain of One’s Own
Note: At two points in the above video (roughly at 12 minutes and 22 minutes) there’s cacophonous feedback when we go to the shot of the laptop. Andy picks it up and fixes it soon after the 22 minute mark. … Continue reading
Y U NO Domain of One’s Own?
Tim Owens just framed out in this post how we can scale the possibilities of UMW’s Domain of One’s Own project to just about any professor from any school that might be interested. What’s interesting here is that the “we” … Continue reading
Reclaim Open Learning
Reclaim Open Learning – Not Anti-MOOC. But pro open. from Jöran und Konsorten on Vimeo. This past weekend I had the real privilege of going to MIT’s Media Lab to join a group of diverse international thinkers for a hackathon … Continue reading
Bearing Witness to Transformation: innovateOSU
Last week at this time I was locked into the 4th annual innovateOSU conference which showcases the work happening in educational technology at THE Ohio State State University. I was honored to have been invited to kick off the conference, … Continue reading
A Domain of One’s Own to Community Syndication Hubs
I will be heading up to Boston this weekend thanks to Philipp Schmidt and Claudia Caro Sullivan who are hosting an open learning hackathon at MIT. Below is the proposal I submitted for an idea I would like to pursue conceptually and … Continue reading
