Domain of One’s Own – UMW Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies

What’s a Sysadmin to Do? — Avoiding Digital Detritus on a Blogging Platform Older than All of My Kids

April 6, 2018ByKris ShafferInDomain of One's Own

We have a lot of blogs. I don’t just mean those of us in DTLT — we do have a lot of blogs. I mean the University of Mary Washington. UMW currently has over 2500 active domains in our Domain of One’s Own program (and almost 3500 domains all-time), and that’s to say nothing about how...

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Introducing the Bootstrap Starter Kit

October 16, 2017ByKris ShafferInDomain of One's Own, Tools

Bootstrap makes hand-coded websites not look so hand-coded. Here's all you need to get started.

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Digital Knowledge: a Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative

July 25, 2017ByJesse StommelInDomain of One's Own, Faculty Development

Putting the word “digital” in front of “knowledge” or in front of “liberal arts” begs a whole host of questions: What work does “digital” do as an adjective? What do we imply or privilege if we use it as a noun (“the digital”)?

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#Domains17 Reflections

June 12, 2017ByLee Skallerup BessetteInDomain of One's Own

Martha asked us, if the Web were a concrete space, what would it look like? I wonder, if DoOO were a person, who would she be?

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WordPress Accessibility

April 19, 2017ByJess ReingoldInDomain of One's Own, Online Learning

On March 21, 2016, the WordPress Accessibility Team announced that “all new or updated code released into WordPress core and bundled themes must conform with the WCAG 2.0 guidelines at level AA.” This is wonderful because WordPress runs 27% of the entire internet.

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Domain of One’s Own at UMW: The Data

February 24, 2017ByKris ShafferInDomain of One's Own

We developed a shiny new tool for tracking and visualizing Domain of One's Own usage data at UMW.

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Can Higher Education Save the Web?

February 14, 2017ByMike CaulfieldInDigital Liberal Arts, Domain of One's Own

For as long as I have been in the educational technology field, pundits have asked whether the web can save higher education.

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Choosing a WordPress Theme

January 24, 2017ByJess ReingoldInDomain of One's Own, Tools

Choosing a WordPress theme can indeed be like falling down the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland. There is so much undiscovered potential - fascinating colors, layouts, typography, etc.