New Projects With Reclaim
Well I’ve been at Reclaim for 6 weeks now! I can’t even believe it, it feels like I’ve been there for months. I’m really enjoying my work and I’m definitely getting the hang of things when answering support tickets. I still ask Tim a ton of questions throughout the day because there is just so […]
Midterm Update and Major Lessons Learned
Hi there! So this post is long overdue but I’m going to update you all on what I’ve been up to in my individual study. Within this course, I am creating an introductory video for the Domain of One’s Own program that will be shown to the incoming freshman at orientation this summer. There’s a […]
Domain of One's Own Research Reflection
The Internet is such a big piece in everyday life. We use social media on a regular basis. There are so many accounts to manage. Users are bound to the specific guidelines set by the specific social network giving them a very little freedom to expand, create, or build out their own space. So where […]
Learning New Content Management Systems
When I started at Reclaim I realized that I needed to learn some more open-source web platforms than I thought. At Mary Washington, I mainly work with students on WordPress, which makes up the majority of the domains. That’s a different story at Reclaim. There are multiple applications that access the file manager (which is […]
Continuing on the Learning Curve
These past two weeks have flown by! I’ve just completed week three at Reclaim Hosting and I have to say it’s been really enjoyable. Things on support tend to be a little slow while I’m working which is good and bad. Good because that means things are running smoothly for clients but also bad because […]
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 […]