I currently serve as one of the e-editor’s for the Literacy Research Association (LRA). This is the second time I have served the organization in this capacity. A little over a decade ago I was the e-editor with several of my colleagues. We recognized that the website contained no value for members or individuals outside…
This demo was created for use in trainings to have educators play with GitHub, GitHub Pages, and Jekyll. This guide is meant to help Git and GitHub beginners get up and running with GitHub Pages and Jekyll. It assumes you know very little about Git and GitHub. We’ll be using a little bit of Markdown,…
Alan Levine recently posted a series of questions to help others think through some of thoughts and motivations as we develop and maintain a domain of our own. I’ve written a lot about this in the past, and I’ll try to include some links to content/posts as I respond to the prompts. This is a…
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” – Lewis Carroll Note: This post documents my thinking as I am choosing to redefine my relationships with social networks and other digital spaces/places. I dig in a bit to explain what I mean…
Over a series of posts I will describe the steps I believe are necessary to host and build a domain of your own online. This started with a look at the digital identity you would like to create online. I then discussed the steps you should take to develop your own personal cyberinfrastructure. I have detailed…
Over a series of posts I will describe the steps I believe are necessary to host and build a domain of your own online. This process started with a look at the digital identity that you would like to create online. I then detailed the steps you should take to develop your own personal cyberinfrastructure…
One of the challenges that we have as we create and share online content is that other businesses control or in some cases “own” our content. As an example of this, many people suggest that their main home on the Internet is their Facebook or LinkedIn page. The problem is that if either of these companies…