Category: blogging
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Assessing DoOO at ‘Berg
About a month ago, bionicteaching (aka Tom Woodward) proposed a way to assess and reflect upon institutional maintenance of DoOO, “midstream”. Another way to frame this question might be, “how can an institution sustain their DoOO work? This focus on maintenance is important, and widely observed to be a point of a particular kind of…
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#PressEdConf21 Presentation
On March 25th, 2021 Sharon Albert @SharonLAlbert and I gave a presentation for #PressEdConf21. PressEdConf is a Twitter-based conference on all things WordPress/ClassicPress and Education, and has been going strong for several years now. You can read all about this great conference and community here: https://pressedconf.org/. When Sharon and I co-taught Mapping Religion in the…
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#ds106radio is my new old friend.
OK, I’m inspired… Lauren Heywood recently wrote a post on her blog about her #ds106radio show with her friend and colleague, Alex Masters. And I’m now inspired to do the same. Lauren is someone I follow online for professional inspiration, and I have great respect for her work. I’ve also started tuning in for her…
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Mountain Brook Build Days
In December of 2017 we bought 45 acres in the Catskill mountains, adjacent to the Plattekill State Forest in Delaware County, NY. It is a beautiful spot and when all this work for pay stuff is over you’ll find me there. To this point, we’ve done a lot of camping and hiking, but except for…
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I blew it at THATCamp & it knocked me off my own web
Four years ago, I submitted a session proposal to a local THATCamp held at Lehigh University. I had grown pretty enamored in 2012-2013 of Linode’s StackScripts and I was eager to talk with others about automated installation scripts for server ‘stacks’. I knew they could be adapted and shared with other education technologists and librarians. I’d seen it…