Category: Fashion

Reclaiming the #edtech4life mentality

As I’m preparing for OER24 (so excited!!!) I wanted to write a blog post about my presentation coming up to get my thoughts together. I’m keeping the blog train rolling. I’ll be on the ground representing Reclaim and the EdTech team. We have some fun things planned leading up to the presentation (check Reclaim.tv on […]

Reclaim Today Episode 008: Sparking Conversations

Last week, was a whirlwind of work. But while everyone was back in the office for a few days, Lauren and I sat down for our first solo Reclaim Today episode. Tim and Jim already have 8 episodes behind them so we needed to catch up for sure. Lauren and I jumped into a quick […]

Archiving a Twitter Account

One of this week’s episodes of Reclaim Today sparked a conversation around archiving. These episodes are always a great listen, in this particular episode, Tim and Jim were chatting about Harvard’s announcement to close down blogs.harvard.edu. A highlight of this talk occurs about 9 minutes in when Tim discusses how users begin to think about taking […]

Embedding Myself into the Professional World

Well, #domains17 is done! We’ve wrapped up on Tuesday and are all home by now. I definitely needed a few days to gather my thoughts for this post. I’m so grateful for this chance to experience what the Ed Tech world is like before I even start my job with Reclaim Hosting. It was a great Read more

Free SSL Certificates Now Available

I know a number of folks who have shared my excitement at seeing support for the Let’s Encrypt project grow as the timeline towards a

Myths of the Web Hosting Industry: 24/7 Support

If you’ve been with us for any length of time you’ll start to recognize that we do things a little differently around here. It’s not

Rethinking Forum Software

Some of my worst memories of poorly-designed online courses bring me back to the awful discussion boards of the standard LMS. The instructor, in a feeble attempt at building community with the tools they had, would ask you to go in and introduce yourself, which meant you had to pretend to be interacting with everyone

It’s Not About the Launch

The past week has been a bit of a whirlwind as Jim and I revealed our plans for Reclaim Hosting with a semi-official launch date of August 15th. We’ve had responses from both public and private institutions, over 50 individuals from as close as George Mason University to as far as Australia and Argentina.

Reclaim Hosting

It’s been an exciting past few days as Jim and I launched Reclaim Hosting and began building out the system to support the signups. We sat down today to talk about a bit more about it, including some of the software we’re using, as well as talking more about the idea of Distributed EdTech (#dedtech)

A Distributed Domain of One’s Own

The summer has been hot but quiet in Fredericksburg and I’ve had a lot of fun over the past few weeks working with Martha Burtis to get our new server up and running with the host of software we plan to use to roll out the Domain of One’s Own project to all incoming students.