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*This post was written as part of Keegan Long-Wheeler’s Mobile Blogging Workshop series in response to his prompt: What campus resource has been most helpful to you and/or your work this year?...
View ArticleEmbedding WordPress in D2L
One of the main limitations for learning management systems is that many are constructed as silos, hiding the course contents from anyone not enrolled in the class. This limitation encouraged me and...
View ArticleUsing Reclaim Hosting’s Server Status API in WordPress
I am extremely excited about a server status page that I just published for OU Create. The page simply displays the current status, operational or otherwise, of the two Reclaim Hosting servers that run...
View ArticleMy Week in Review
Tweet of the Week OU’s parking services are strict. Sorry @President_Boren #MayThe4thBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/rltdfwx4Ug — John Stewart (@jstew511) May 4, 2016 Blog Writing – Just this. Courses – I...
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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...
View ArticleDuplicating 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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A ListServe of One’s Own
OU Create has over 3500 users and 4000 web sites. In a single week we might see 400 blog posts from the users. But until today, it was not complete. Create had not fulfilled it’s potential. Email is a...
View ArticleUsing Reclaim Hosting’s Server Status API in WordPress
I am extremely excited about a server status page that I just published for OU Create. The page simply displays the current status, operational or otherwise, of the two Reclaim Hosting servers that run...
View ArticleMy Week in Review
Tweet of the Week OU’s parking services are strict. Sorry @President_Boren #MayThe4thBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/rltdfwx4Ug — John Stewart (@jstew511) May 4, 2016 Blog Writing – Just this. Courses – I...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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 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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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...
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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...
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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