OU Create 2.0

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…

March 23, 2022 · 2 min · John Stewart

You don’t need Wix: Use WordPress Elementor

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…

January 27, 2020 · 3 min · John Stewart

Omeka + HTML5Up

I have been working on a couple of Omeka sites this semester. I really like the Omeka system for its handling of meta data and the Neatline map extension for

December 4, 2017 · 2 min · John Stewart

Omeka of One’s Own

One of the recurring concerns/complaints surrounding the Domain of One’s Own project is the inescapability of WordPress. Most students and faculty on OU

September 19, 2017 · 5 min · John Stewart

Digital Note-taking in the History Classroom

One of the projects I’ve been most excited about this semester revolves around an effort to teach history students how to take notes using an online database. The central point of my own digi…

February 6, 2017 · 3 min · John Stewart

Duplicating Drupal

One of my big ongoing projects is an online Drupal database for the History of Chemistry called Situating Chemistry. The database connects the sites where

June 28, 2016 · 5 min · John Stewart

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…

January 27, 2016 · 2 min · John Stewart

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…

July 9, 2015 · 3 min · John Stewart