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  • Why Every EdTech Group Needs a DKC

    The Digital Knowledge Center has now existed at UMW for about four months, and it’s kept me pretty busy. As a result,  I’ve been pretty rotten about posting updates about its progress. Over break, I worked on a status report, and I’ll be trying to share some of the data and numbers from our first…

  • UMW’s New Digital Knowledge Center (and my new job)

    It’s been months since I’ve posted anything on this site, but this time I can honestly say I think I have a pretty good excuse. This summer, DTLT relocated to a brand-new building, UMW’s Information & Technology Convergence Center. I attended my first meeting about this building in spring of 2008, so it’s fair to…

  • Stop Motion Friday

    I’ve had an idea for a kind of advertising video I wanted to create for Domain of One’s Own for quite some time. I knew basically what I wanted the message to be, and I knew I wanted it to be a kind stop-motion drawing animation. After experimenting with a new stop motion app on…

  • Remote Comments Plugin (a FWP “AddOn”)

    A long time ago, I blogged about some code I had written for ds106 that made it possible to show how many comments had been left on a post that was being syndicated (via FeedWordPress) from elsewhere. The code was pretty simple — it was based on the fact that some feeds (including ones originating…

  • Visualizing & Exposing Domain of One’s Own Activity

    Now that Tim and I have successfully built a site at community.umwdomains.com that aggregates the activity of the project, I’ve been focussing my efforts recently on what we can do to visualize and expose that activity. Every site that is created (as long as it uses Installatron to install a Web application) on the server…

  • A Few Models of Teaching in Domain of One’s Own

    A few weeks ago, I blogged about the current status of UMW’s Domain of One’s Own project and this prompted UMW’s own Mark Snyder to respond on Twitter: @mburtis Thanks! This gives me an idea for a way to incorporate DOOO into my umwblogs courses but I have a few questions. — Mark Snyder (@royallivermush)…

  • A Tribute to the Bullpen

    Last week, Jim and I presented in Richmond at Open VCU about the experience of teaching #ds106. It was a lot of fun — but talking about #ds106 with Jim is always a lot of fun. We prepared a different kind of presentation, in which we examined the course/community through three different lenses of openness,…

  • Six months into Domain of One’s Own

    It’s been months since I did my first status report on Domain of One’s Own, and it’s definitely time to revisit the topic. As it turns out, a few weeks ago I completed a interim report about the project to share with our University’s Board of Visitors. So, I actually have spent a fair amount…

  • A Newish Post

    And a newish theme. And a newish About page.

  • In Defense of Organic Project Development

    Over on his blog, Tim is talking about some very exciting work we’re doing with Domain of One’s Own right now, and he’s inspired me to add my own post to the conversation. Tim’s outlined beautifully some of the initial steps we’re taking to build a community space around Domain of One’s Own — a space…