IT & EdTech

This year, I’ve spent a good bit of time restructuring the OU Create project. Since the start of the project, we had been giving all of the users a full domain where they could stand up as ma…

Last week, I posted some notes about five different tools for live captioning a Zoom session. After I posted, I found out that OU had just turned on a new

Since we’ve all dived head first into Zoom, I thought I’d take a look at a few different options for captioning videos. If you are on a Pro or Educational

One of the first questions people ask after they get settled into OU Create with a working WordPress site is how to set up search engine optimization (SEO).

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Here at OU, we provide every student, faculty, and staff member with webhosting and a free URL through OU Create. We’re hoping to build digital literacy by giving students the chance to build…

I play Wizards Unite and Pokemon Go, two very popular mobile video games made by Niantic. On any given Sunday, you can probably find me wondering around Norman collecting Pokemon and various items …

This is largely a note to myself, but I hope it will be useful for anyone else who helps to administer a Domain of One’s Own project. I get a lot of requests from OU Create users to migrate a…

OU Create The University of Oklahoma offers all of its students, staff, and faculty their own web domains through the OU Create program. Anyone who wants to can sign up for a free subdomain (someth…

I’ve been interested in using digital maps to in history projects for a while now. My first big project on this was Situating Chemistry. This is a research database of places where chemistry …

Domains19 wrapped yesterday, and it was great. Lauren and the whole Reclaim Hosting team did a great job putting the conference together. As with any good conference, my favorite part was getting t…

For the Day 2 lunch keynote, Amy Collier talked to us about Ambitious futures for (digital) education: Perspectives from Tropicália.