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Planning Digital Detox
Next fall, I’m scheduled to teach a course on digital detox at PSU. The course is part of our general education program; specifically, it is an “integrated capstone.” From PSU’s catalog: I chose this topic for a variety of reasons. I find myself trying to figure out how to disengage with technology more and more.…
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Wasting Forward
I mentioned in my last post that I’m in the first year of a three-year grant from the Davis Foundation to explore the design of emergent, flexible, and progressive education. I applied for this grant in the fall of 2024 when the budget situation at Plymouth State wasn’t great, but wasn’t horrifying. Since then, things…
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A New Year, Same as the Last Year
I’ve had this blog since 2004, but I’ve never been a good blogger. My writing has been sporadic, chaotic, and unfocused. Hundreds of times, I’ve said to myself, “This is the day/month/year when you will finally lean into your writing, if for no other reason than to clean out your brain so that, perhaps, it…
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trying out activitypub
Does this work?
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Is this thing on? (Also: Twitter, Mastodon, and the Fundamentals of DoOO)
via GIPHY It’s been. . .a while. It would take too long to review everything that’s happened since I posted last, so let’s start with a recent turn of events: the absolute implosion of Twitter. I’ve been on that site for about fifteen years, and for portions of that time, I barely looked at it.…
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Neither Locked Out Nor Locked In
As I’ve prepared for this talk I’ve been abundantly aware that I’m speaking to an audience that is different than ones I usually address about Domain of One’s Own. I would be lying if I didn’t tell you that this fact has been a source of some amount of stress for me — okay a…
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Messy & Chaotic Learning: A Domains Presentation at Keene State College
When I was asked to come speak at Keene it was due, in part, to a presentation I gave last summer at Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute at Mary Washington. My presentation was titled Making & Breaking: Rethinking the Web in Higher Education, and the purpose of that talk was to disentangle a bit of the history of the…
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Looking (again) to Domain of One’s Own
When I moved into my new position at UMW a year and a half ago, directing the Digital Knowledge Center, I knew that while I was moving out of faculty development  and instructional technology that I would still be working with our Domain of One’s Own project. However, I wasn’t exactly sure what my role…
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Imperfect Offerings
Next week, I’m headed to Coventry University with Jesse Stommel to participate in Expo 16: University Remixed hosted by the Disruptive Media Learning Lab. For the last six weeks or so, Jesse and I had been regularly talking with the folks at DMLL about the event and planning how we could most meaningfully contribute to…
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Refactoring Domain of One’s Own (and everything else)
It’s been over a year since I wrote in this space. There are lots of reasons for that. Most significantly, the last 12 months have seen enormous change in the division that I’ve worked in here at UMW, Teaching and Learning Technologies. If you follow me on social media, you know all about the changes. Suffice…