Author: Tim

  • Cheryl Cuillier’s Awesome OER Toolkit

    Happy #OEWeek everyone! I was watching Twitter and appreciating all the great stuff coming out of #OERizona20 today, and I saw this gem of an OER Toolkit. It was created by Cheryl Cuillier, Associate Librarian at The University of Arizona Libraries as a shared google document, with the CC BY license. I thought something this…

  • Domains 2019 Presentation

    domains_community_site.json Original proposal: This talk builds upon the outstanding presentation: Just a Community Organizer: Visualizing Community for Domain of One’s Own by Marie Selvanadin, Tom Woodward, & Yianna Vovides given at Domains ’17. Another approach to building a Domains community site will be shown. There will be a quick overview of the technologies used to build Muhlenberg…

  • “Why Domains” responses for the folks of Ontario Extend

    I just saw the request for blog posts (from June 8th) from Alan Levine around the question ‘Why Domains’. I’m not especially timely, but I thought I’d give it a shot anyway. Here are my responses: What is your domain name and what is the story, meaning behind your choice of that as a name?…

  • Self-platforming, DoOO, and academic workflows

    Platform:  digital infrastructure that positions itself between users and acts as the ground upon which their activities occur.  This positioning, therefore,  gives platforms privileged access to record and analyze the activities of users and between users. [Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform capitalism. Cambridge, UK ; Polity.] Self-platforming: personally hosting one or multiple free/libre, open, web-based applications as an…

  • Video Creation for Students, Video Creation by Students

    Throughout the spring of 2018, I have been supporting a cohort of outstanding faculty at Muhlenberg who are preparing online courses to run throughout this coming summer.  We began this learning community by carefully considering the Community of Inquiry model, and particularly building Social Presence within online courses.  Video production for students, from short lectures…