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
Domain of One’s Own (aka UMW Domains) has a new look! Besides my own superficial reasons for wanting to give the site a new look, there are some practical reasons as to why the Domain of One’s Own site needed a redesign. The most important reason for the update is we needed to separate custom...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
There are thousands and thousands of plugins and themes in the WordPress repository. It can be kind of overwhelming…. Sure, you can filter each of theme by tags or features, but even then the results list can be large. I’ve written down some of the best practices that I follow and have found that work...Continue Reading
