Open Source
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Testing Write Freely on Reclaim Cloud
Taylor Jadin from Reclaim Hosting created a multiuser instance of Write Freely on Reclaim Cloud, streaming his attempt. Taylor’s livestream The instance won’t live long, but before he tore it down, I thought I would pop on and give it a try. Write Freely has a multisite/multiuser setup, so in 2 minutes I had my…
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Understanding Containers with Docker
This year, for my professional development I had my institution purchase Reclaim Hosting’s Educational Technology Subscription. Reclaim Hosting has been doing one flex course per month and this month I participated in their Understanding Containers flex course. This is a little paradoxical, but one of the things I appreciated about this course is that it…
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Crowdsourcing ideas with other Instructional Designers – Digital Flashcards and Flipcards
For the last year, I have been volunteering on the Advisory Council of ID2ID, a collaboration of Penn State and Educause that connects Instructional Designers, and gives us a community to connect, work on projects, or meet people around the globe working in our field. In the Universal Design channel, one Instructional Designer asked about…
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Productive Failure: MathJax and Pressbooks
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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Building Collaboration Spaces to Build and Share Interactives
I have been following projects coming out of Canada for years to build and share H5P activities. For those that don’t know, H5P is a program or plugin for multiple web-building products that allow website creators to create interactives. H5P stands for HTML 5 Packet, and this is significant in that H5P is a great…
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Why Moodle should be the next great OER Tool
In the State University of New York, a large spotlight has been shone on the potential of Open Educational Resources (OER). Open resources can be a variety of things, from a textbook, to lecture materials, to an adaptive learning system that your students can use. SUNY is a loose federation of 64 community colleges, four-year…
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Leaving AWS Cloud for Reclaim Hosting
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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What it’s like to influence the world’s leading open source LMS
I was interviewed by a fellow Moodle Users Association member for a feature on Moodle.com/news. I have followed to Moodle Project closely since the beginning of my education career. In fact, my first full time job in a high school was in a classroom where we had a netbook for each student. We used Moodle…
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What can the OER movement learn from Open Source Software?
For the second year in a row, there was passionate debate at the SUNY OER Champions day over the role of a for-profit company serving as SUNY’s partner. Last year, in response to the debate, I published a piece called “Selling Open: The Conundrum of for-profit companies in the OER Space.” In that piece I tried…
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Adjusting Moodle for Accessibility
SUNY Delhi is a 4 year, residential college. It’s programs and course offerings are reflective of its history as a two year college of technology, with 40 associate degree programs, however it also offers 16 baccalaureate programs and several masters degree programs. These programs range from Automotive, Culinary Arts, Nursing, and Architecture and Design. As…
