Wordpress
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@beckej@ed-beck.com
Switching to WordPress Full Site Editing for the New Year
This week, I redesigned my portfolio to use WordPress’ (new?) Full Site Editing feature. For about the past year I’ve been participating in WordPress’ Full Site Editing (FSE) outreach program. While I haven’t been as active as I’d like to be lately, I really enjoyed contributing to that program. One of the things that I…
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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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Creating a Community Archive for Domain of One’s Own
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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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…