Hypothes.is Collector
One of my favorite online tools is Hypothes.is. It allows you to annotate web pages as you would a book. When you’re using Hypothes.is you can highlight text on a webpage or add notes. The to…
IT & EdTech
Systems administration and instructional technology in higher ed — integrations, automation, and what actually works.
Using Reclaim Hosting’s Server Status API in WordPress
I am extremely excited about a server status page that I just published for OU Create. The page simply displays the current status, operational or otherwise, of the two Reclaim Hosting servers that…
Team Learning: A Halo 2 Clan Story
This post was written by guest blogger Keegan Long-Wheeler and cross-posted from his blog, Keeganslw.com. Keegan is the educational technologist at the Center for Teaching Excellence at the Univers…
Scaffolding: From Candy Land to Calculus
I’m currently teaching my 4-year old daughter, Evie, to play board games. Before we get to chess or Scrabble or even Sorry, we’re starting off with some really simple games that can demonstrate for…
Goblin as OER
While the thought of gamifying an entire class or even elements of a class will be daunting for many, GOBLIN also includes more universal and applicable concepts. Well designed games introduce gam…
A Brief History of GOBLIN Faculty Development
This post is written by guest blogger Keegan Long-Wheeler. Keegan is the educational technologist at the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Oklahoma and my collaborator on GOBLIN. …
Embedding WordPress in D2L
One of the main limitations for learning management systems is that many are constructed as silos, hiding the course contents from anyone not enrolled in the class. This limitation encouraged me an…
Announcing GOBLIN: goblin.education
Games Offer Bold Learning Insights Nowadays (GOBLIN) is an interactive adventure game that is, first and foremost, a vehicle to experientially teach pedagogical concepts. In other words, GOBLIN aim…
Converting Students’ History Essays into Wikipedia Articles
The history research paper is often treated as busy work by students and seen with the same contempt as an algebra homework set or lab write-up. While all of these assessments have pedagogical util…
My first plugin
*The opensource code for the BadgeOS_Slack integration plugin can be found at the OUDigilearn GitHub site: In my office (the University of Oklahoma’s Center for Teaching Excellence), we use …
OU Create
*This post was written as part of Keegan Long-Wheeler’s Mobile Blogging Workshop series in response to his prompt: What campus resource has been most helpful to you and/or your work this year…