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Productive Failure: MathJax and Pressbooks

Domain of One's Own, Math Accessibility, Open Educational Resources, Open Source, SUNYCreate / By / July 15, 2022
Depressed musician vintage drawing
As an OER specialist and accessibility advocate, I feel double pressure that when we create openly licensed materials, we have to hold ourselves towards the highest standards of accessibility. That’s not easy when we are talking about STEM, but it’s a responsibility I don’t take lightly. Online, when you have accessible math displayed in a …

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Creating a Community Archive for Domain of One’s Own

Domain of One's Own, Open Pedagogy, SUNYCreate, Wordpress / By / March 17, 2022
Reclaim Hosting has recently hired an Instructional Technologist from one of their Domain of One’s Own Schools. It’s been interesting to watch how an outside organization and frequent collaborator like Reclaim Hosting responds to new ideas and new energy. It will be really interesting to see if the perspective of being a campus lead for …

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Defining our institutional approach to Domain of One’s Own

Digital Humanities, Domain of One's Own, SUNYCreate / By / November 11, 2021
I’ve started this post a few times, several months apart. This morning, the reason I think I will finally get to publish is a push from the folks at Reclaim Hosting, specifically a blog post by Lauren Hanks. In her post this week, she details visiting Vanderbilt and supporting the Domains initiative of that institution. …

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OpenEd20: SUNY Global Commons: Creating an International Experience in the Time of COVID-19

Conference Presentations, Domain of One's Own, Open Pedagogy, SUNYCreate / By / October 11, 2021
The SUNY Global Commons was a direct response to the COVID-19 shutdowns during the Spring Semester and Summer of 2020. Across SUNY, many students had planned to travel abroad for the Spring Semester. SUNY OER Services, SUNY Online, and the SUNY Office of Global Affairs collaborated to create this open learning experience. My part in …

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The Semester of Living Dangerously: SUNY Oneonta’s Pandemic Diary Project

Digital Humanities, Domain of One's Own, SUNYCreate / By / March 7, 2021
Homepage of the Pandemic Diaries Project
One of the thing that I like about having a Domains of One’s Own initiative is that when a project idea comes my way, we can quickly get it off the ground. In March of 2020, when we were just starting to understand the effect the Global Pandemic was going to have on our institution, …

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Leaving AWS Cloud for Reclaim Hosting

Domain of One's Own, Open Source, SUNYCreate, Wordpress / By / April 9, 2021
For the last 3-4 years, I have been maintaining several developmental servers on the Amazon Cloud. I don’t even remember what my first server was, whether it was a Moodle, a WordPress Blog, or Pressbooks. It’s sometimes interesting that one of the most formative experiences of my career may have been a job that I …

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