Navigating copyright for class materials can be difficult, especially where digital media is concerned. Here are some guiding principles for legally using digital media in educational settings.Continue Reading
How can we help students and faculty to think about DoOO beyond a digital repository for projects and blogs, starting it as a digital portfolio but then leveling it up to a robust tool for digital identity and fluency?Continue Reading
The question for me is how the idea of “own” works as a metaphor. It’s complicated enough as it is: my own, to own, owned, owned. We own our mistakes, we own our work, we own our politics, and none of this is quite like the way we own our homes—which for most of our...Continue Reading
Educators are increasingly putting open licences on their content, making it legal to copy, redistribute, even remix that content for other purposes. But it's not always easy to remix that content. With that in mind, I've made a few significant updates to Peasy, an open-by-default web publishing platform. These updates make it even easier to...Continue Reading
A lot of has changed for me and my digital presence in the past nine months. And so how I’ve approached my personal domain has had to change as well. I get to figure out who I want to be online again.Continue Reading
My experience with DoOO at UMW was really in the pilot phase, and before it was offered to all students. For many of my students, their experience was for that one DS106 course. And while we focus much on getting a course’s evaluation at its end, my belief has always been that its more important...Continue Reading
We’re a new team at DTLT, and we all came to UMW knowing different pieces about DoOO, understanding it in our own way by learning about it from the outside. This past year has been all about getting a better understanding of the project both at UMW and also the national and international iterations the...Continue Reading
Domain of One's Own is a project that is deep, broad, and growing. As Jess and Jesse wrote, "we find ourselves looking back even as we look forward." As we at DTLT collaborate with our faculty and students to keep imagining the future of Domain of One's Own at Mary Washington, we are both humbled...Continue Reading
Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) is not just a platform. It’s a philosophy. A history, then, can not just account for the development of the technologies but must also account for the thinking that brought the project to life.Continue Reading
