Checking the status for 5200 websites
OU Create The University of Oklahoma offers all of its students, staff, and faculty their own web domains through the OU Create program. Anyone who wants to can sign up for a free subdomain (something...
View ArticleReflections on Domains 19
Domains19 wrapped yesterday, and it was great. Lauren and the whole Reclaim Hosting team did a great job putting the conference together. As with any good conference, my favorite part was getting to...
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#Domains 19 Day 2 Lunch Keynote with Amy Collier
For the Day 2 lunch keynote, Amy Collier talked to us about Ambitious futures for (digital) education: Perspectives from Tropicália. Abstract: Brasil’s tropicália movement was a revolutionary...
View Article#Domains 19 Day 2 Breakout Session 3: Embedded in the Fabric
Georgetown Domains and the Master’s of Learning, Design, and Technology Speakers: Lee Skallerup Bessette, Randal Ellsworth Abstract: The mission of the new Master’s of Learning, Design, and Technology...
View Article#Domains 19 Day 2 Breakout Session 2: Weaponizing Your Website
Speakers: Jennifer Hill Abstract: There is a war a raging in our cyberworld and it is time for you to join the resistance. Cambridge Analytica stealing Facebook user’s data, white supremacists getting...
View Article#Domains 19 Day 2 Breakout Session 1: HAX Chaotic Good
Speakers: Bryan Ollendyke (Not really an) Abstract: “YOU SEE, I’M NOT A MONSTER… I’M JUST AHEAD OF THE CURVE“ Unbalance, unrest, and chaos can be brought with one simple act: Giving away everything....
View Article#Domains 19 Breakout Session 2: Domain Fellows
Speakers: Jess Reingold, Jenn Hill, Katie Hartraft Abstract: The noise of typing filled the small classroom. Domain Fellows, student ambassadors for the Domain of One’s Own program, sat quietly...
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Getting Started with WordPress in OU Create
It’s back to school season, and for me that means helping students and faculty set up websites. The Office of Digital Learning at the University of Oklahoma provides a service called OU Create which...
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Google Sheets Blogging CMS, part 1
This is the first post in a three part series on using Google Sheets as the database for a blogging CMS. In this post, I’ll explain the motivations for building the system. In the second post, I’ll...
View ArticleGetting Ready for Gutenberg
Sometime in the fall, we will get WordPress 5.0. This new release is called Gutenberg after the 15th century Bible printer. I have installed a beta version of it on a test website called...
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Omeka + HTML5Up
I have been working on a couple of Omeka sites this semester. I really like the Omeka system for its handling of meta data and the Neatline map extension for easy map creation. Omeka S just came out...
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Omeka of One’s Own
One of the recurring concerns/complaints surrounding the Domain of One’s Own project is the inescapability of WordPress. Most students and faculty on OU Create and other Domains projects use WordPress...
View ArticleVisualizing Domains Projects
One of the big challenges in running a Domains project, and part of my feeling of being adrift at sea, is the highlighting of particularly good work from users and the intelligible visualization of the...
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2017 Creaties
This past Friday we held the second annual Creaties to recognize some of the best new sites created by OU students, staff, and faculty. The event went great thanks to the University Club here at OU....
View ArticleCreate + Canvas: Notes from Session 1 of #PaintCanvasOU
Today, we are kicking off a new mini-conference called Paint Canvas. Prepare All Instruction, Now Teach (PAINT) is a half-day Canvas training that showcases the best of Canvas in the classroom to...
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Digital Note-taking in the History Classroom, part 2
Lately I have been working on a web project called Spanish Borderlands with Raphael Folsom. The basic idea for the project is that students in Raphael’s upper division history course on the Spanish...
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Research and Support Sites in OU Create
On Friday, I had a couple of consultation meetings setting up OU Create websites. In the first meeting, Keegan and I met with Bill Endres. Bill came to OU from the University of Kentucky a year and a...
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Creating a Digital Museum of the Tulsa Race Riots
I had a great meeting on Monday with Professor Karlos Hill from African and African American Studies about a new course he is designing on race in Oklahoma focusing on the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921....
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Duplicating Drupal
One of my big ongoing projects is an online Drupal database for the History of Chemistry called Situating Chemistry. The database connects the sites where chemistry has been done (pharmaceutical...
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My Week in Review May 16 – 20
Tweet of the Week New google sheet for collecting @hypothes_is annotations #ianno16 Blog post: https://t.co/HriOwLgbvf Tool: https://t.co/ntZ5M0BcI3 — John Stewart (@jstew511) May 19, 2016 Blog Writing...
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