Tag Archives: edtech

Dude, Where’s My LMS?

Posted on May 10, 2026 by Reverend

I feel for the systems folks on the ground at Instructure dealing with the ransomeware attack of Canvas. I help run a hosting company, and what became clear for thousands of schools last week is that Canvas is as much … Continue reading →

Posted in Instructional Technology | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Reclaim the Comms

Posted on June 4, 2024 by Reverend

There’s been some discussion around the impact of the decline of centralized networks, such as Twitter, on individual and organizational communications. I’m not sure of the broader impact, but I do know it’s led Reclaim Hosting to take a wide … Continue reading →

Posted in edtech survivalist, edtechsurvivalist, open source, reclaim | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Ian Linkletter’s Call to Action at Reclaim Open

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Reverend

We’re honored to have edtech’s patron saint of resisting student surveillance, Ian Linkletter, join us on July 24th at 12 PM Eastern (9 AM Pacific) to discuss the crucial role of ethical edtech in our current moment. As many of … Continue reading →

Posted in Reclaim Open | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Metaphor’s in the Water, You Go in the Water

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Reverend

Sorry for the oblique Jaws reference in the title, but I really couldn’t resist given I’m talking about Martin Weller‘s podcast about Metaphors in Edtech—captain Quint himself 🙂 In fact, one of the many joys of OER23 was not only … Continue reading →

Posted in 25yearsedtech, art, blogging, reclaim | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

This Mastodon Will Explode, Session 1

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Reverend

Yesterday Maren Deepwell, Kerry Pinny, Taylor Jadin and I ran the first of three sessions introducing Mission Mastodon. “What is that?” you wisely ask. Well, it’s a collaboration between  ALT and Reclaim Edtech to provide a temporary server for folks … Continue reading →

Posted in Reclaim Edtech | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The Blogsphere is Hot….with Edtech Angst

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Reverend

The above video has been the source of an ongoing joke at Reclaim Hosting for many years now. I’ve been carrying the blogging torch and this has been my referent point for a time when blogging was so popular and … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging | Tagged , | 10 Comments

Thinking about Edtech

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Reverend

In fact, I’m always thinking about edtech in some fashion, but these days I’m thinking about the term itself. There are more than a few reasons for this, not least of which Reclaim Hosting was essentially born as an edtech … Continue reading →

Posted in edupunk, indieedtech, Instructional Technology | Tagged | 22 Comments

Professional Development in the Cloud

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Reverend

I am just coming off  a couple of hours of watching Stephen Downes work his way through some of my Ghost tutorials. It’s not only quite useful for me to watch someone make heads or tails of my tutorials, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Ghost, Instructional Technology | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Reclaim EdTech

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Reverend

Yesterday was in many ways the start of something new, fun, and cool at Reclaim Hosting:  the first team meeting of Reclaim’s emergent instructional technology team. I realized during that two-hour-marathon-meeting-that-did-not-suck that I’ve been waiting near-on nine years for this … Continue reading →

Posted in Instructional Technology, reclaim, Reclaim Cloud | Tagged , , | 21 Comments

The Sisyphean Labor of Link Love

Posted on September 16, 2021 by Reverend

I woke up this morning to a Twitter exchange between Alan Levine and Ken Bauer about creating a plugin that points dead links on a blog to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: I might need a WordPress plugin than converts … Continue reading →

Posted in Archiving, digital storytelling, Instructional Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments