Web We Need to Give Students
Student privacy has become one of the hottest issues in education. Argument over student’s privacy gives them no voice UMW students control over their data, scholarship, a digital identity. When someone uses an LMS it can’t be accessed once the semester is over. But with Domain of One’s Own students are able to take their […]
Do I Own My Domain If You Grade It?
“Owning data has the potential to give students agency and control” Its important to focus on knowledge and production rather than data possession. Students need to see this space as a reward for rigor and experimentation. Professors need to shift focus away from traditional assignments. Audience doesn’t change at all. Have to give students the […]
Who's afraid of Domain of One's Own
Domain is more of a delimited (nonconstrained) space with your name on it — literally, you can do whatever you want with it. Virginia Woolf’s “A Room Of One’s Own”– a room that provides time, creative ideas, and the space to express oneself freely– literally and figuratively Students take part of a wider digital conversation. […]
Unwired through a Domain of One's Own in Wired
Why do universities give students temporary cyberinfrastructures like email accounts and web hosting that end up being replaced after graduation. Gardner Campbell “argued that learning to build and operate a personal cloud was a life skill students would need and should be taught.” With Domain of One’s Own students begin to assemble a platform to […]
Progress in a "Personal Cyberinfrastructure"
Progress is linear and exponential. But it sometimes it can loop back to bring other ideas back to light. Courses used to cover basic HTML and CSS Began to build course web pages with the help of grant money to fund the projects. Plug and play applications emerged helped empower faculty with a move to […]
Maggie's Digital Farm
The web has great promises like freedom, knowledge, access, egaitarianism, and creativity etc. Having a domain is not just a way of creating pieces of writing. Its a way of distributing the writing as well. When you own your domain you get to control your intellectual property and you get to manage and control the […]
Further Thinking in "Coding, Serendipity, and Domain of One’s Own"
This article dives further into thinking about the Domain of One’s Own initiative: the aim of the program is to provide students and faculty with their own domain names and open-source web hosting. The name comes form Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own — giving women their own space in order to explore their […]
Good Innovations within "Beyond Disruption: Higher Ed Innovation from Within"
After reading through Beyond Disruption: Higher Ed Innovation from Within again, I noticed a lot of things that went along with . Here are some of the main points of the article: Leslie Madsen-Brooks wanted to focus on the good innovations of the classroom, like projects that rely on open-source softwares and focus on individual and collective empowerment. […]
Exploring Domain of One's Own
Hi there! This past two weeks, I started my individual study. I am going to create an informational video for a program at Mary Washington called Domain of One’s Own. This program is unique where the university provides an opportunity of all students to get their own domain while they are at Mary Wash. With […]
Reclaiming my Internship
Hello everyone! I haven’t posted in a while. But I’m really glad to get back to the blog! You’ll see a lot more posts from my this semester because I am blogging for two major things happening as I begin to finish up my time at Mary Washington. I can’t believe I’m set to graduate […]