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Jim Groom and Paul Bond talk with Michael Branson Smith about how he conceived of and built the Dr. Oblivion AI bot for Oblivion University, part of this semester’s ds106 course centered around Artificial Intelligence....
In this episode Jim talks with several scholars to discuss the embedded laws and public traces of racial exclusion in property rights across Northern Virginia. This team is exploring mapping tools to visualize this piece...
For the 39th episode of Reclaim Today, Taylor Jadin and Jim Groom talk with Paul Hibbitts about his recent work to make creating a website dead simple using the tool Docsify-This. It is built on top of the open source documentation tool Docsify, and allows anyone to instantly convert a markdown file to a HTML page without needing a server to host it....magic!
As we kick off the July Recap for Reclaim Open Online, sit down with the Reclaim Hosting team to hear some of our reflections and what we’re looking forward to over this next month!
Lauren and Jim discuss the highlights of the fantastic OER23 conference that took place in Inverness, Scotland from April 4th through April 6th, 2023. You can see the full program and conference videos. There are also some amazing images of the conference thanks to photographer Tim Winterburn.
Pilot, Lauren, and Jim reflect on one year's worth of Reclaim Roundups. It's been a huge part of documenting how we work at Reclaim Hosting, and this discussion takes a look at 3 distinct issues of the Reclaim Roundup from January 2022, June 2022, and December 2022 to explore how this newsletter documents how much we have changed over the course of just 12 months.
In this episode Jim Groom talks with professor Riv-Ellen Prell and artist Livia Foldes about their collaborative project A Campus Divided: Progressives, Anticommunists, Racism, and Antisemitism at the University of Minnesota, 1930-1942.| This website was born alongside a physical exhibit highlighting a history of surveillance and segregation at the university that spanned more than a decade which was un-eartherd by the research of Sarah Atwood, then a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies. The physical exhibit was immensely popular, but also underscored ongoing struggles and tensions not only at UMN, but across the US political landscape more generally.
The exhibit coincided with the early days of the Trump presidency's racist and anti-Semetic dog whistling, in particular the "Unite the Right" rally on the University of Virginia's campus in August 2017. That is the context for this historical deep-dive into campus-specific racist, anti-semitic, and antifa anticommunist rhetoric in the 1930s, a powerful moment wherein the struggle between the university administration and student activists in the 1930s might provide one way of understanding the contemporary national political stage as the exhibit opened.
This was the push by Prell and Foldes to not stop at a limited-run physical exhibit to highlight this history, but also digitize these documents and design a home for them online that would not only make this archive readily available, but through a powerful design highlight the urgency and importance of activism when faced with the abuse of power. Watch the entire interview to get a sense of this truly important academic and design work that these scholar/artist/activists have made openly available to not only understand the past, but help put our present moment into that much sharper focus.
In this episode Jim, Lauren and Chris discuss the process of moving Reclaim Hosting's main website into a multiregion setup. It has been a year-long odyssey getting Multiregion rock solid, but now that it is it opens up brave new world's of enterprise hosting across several regions with automatic failover thanks to the immense power of managing DNS and load balancing through Cloudflare.
In this episode Jim Groom catches up with ds106 alum Linda McKenna to reflect on her work in the the Spring of 2012, exactly a decade ago! The gift of ds106 just keeps on giving, and this discussion reinforces the direct link between ds106 and the work we continue to do at Reclaim Hosting #4life.
In this episode of Reclaim Today Lauren, Taylor, Pilot, and Jim debrief about the Domains 101 and 201 workshop run virtually for participants, while at least three of the four Reclaimers were delivering it from a Tech Bar studio at St. Norbert College. The video provides a reflection on the two-day workshop as well as a look at the audio and video setup in the Tech Bar lab that made it all possible.
In this episode of Reclaim Today, we talk about the launch of Reclaim Edtech, a professional development and support community built specifically with Educational Technologists in mind.
Learn more: https://reclaimhosting.com/instructional-tech/
In this episode of Reclaim Today Lauren Hanks, Tim Owens, and Jim Groom of Reclaim Hosting chat with Tom Woodward and Michael Branson Smith about their development of the OERxDomains21 TV Guide-inspired conference schedule website. You can see the website here: https://oerxdomains21.org
Jim Groom blogged about the development of the site a few times (he's good like that): "OERxDomains21: Reclaiming the Conference Experience" "OERxDomains21's Instant Archive" "Design and Development Notes on the OERxDomains Guide"
Michael Branson Smith blogged about his work with javascript to do much of the time-based magic discussed in this video: "This is Temporal Experiment Number One"
You can see the Luxon Javascript library here: https://moment.github.io/luxon/ And the CSS text overflow here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-overflow
In this episode several members from the Reclaim Hosting team reflect on their experience at the OERxDomains21 conference that took place the previous week.
Jolie Tingen of Duke University talks about their project Kits, which is a concrete example of what the oft-cited Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE) might look like. Kits allows faculty and students to integrate several distinct tools to create a variegated course environment that pushes beyond the monoculture of the Learning Management System, while at the same time allowing for its current centrality for online teaching and learning.
We take a break from the world of hosting to sit down and chat about the grand opening of Reclaim Arcade and first impressions one week in of running this new business.
In this episode of Reclaim Today Jim Groom talks with CUNY professor Michael Branson Smith (MBS) about his journey learning and teaching HTML/CSS/Javascript; making the COVID-19 transition for the classroom, and his recent artwork animating classic movie posters with CSS.
Show notes: * CUNY's Academic Commons course listing * Harper and Dr. Strangelove Animated Movie Poster posts * Pure CSS Art Francine by Diana Smith * Pure CSS art as experienced is old browsers * Colt Steele's intro to HTML and CSS on Youtube * MBS's Anatomy of a Murder CSS-driven animated movie poster (work-in-progress)
Andy Rush is back with Jim and Tim to talk video, but this time it's all about a course centered around video production. A special topics opportunity in the vein of ds106 that gets at how to produce video for the web.
Notes:
https://ds206.video
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In a country rocked by COVID and a culture that is moving increasingly to virtual online offerings across so many sectors, what might that mean for Reclaim Arcade? In this episode Jim and Tim start to dig into the idea of telepresence as one way at connecting the physical to the digital and virtual to create meaningful experiences. There is also a kick ass game of Blades of Steel against Edmonton.
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Telemelt: https://telemelt.com/