Author: Tim Owens

Backups Done Right

One of the crucial elements to owning your own space online is the ability to tinker and play without fear that you will break something

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Brand New Design

Reclaim Hosting got a fresh coat of paint today with a full site redesign including the client area. When we began Reclaim Hosting last summer

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Rethinking Forum Software

Screen Shot 2013-09-02 at 9.31.05 AMSome of my worst memories of poorly-designed online courses bring me back to the awful discussion boards of the standard LMS. The instructor, in a feeble attempt at building community with the tools they had, would ask you to go in and introduce yourself, which meant you had to pretend to be interacting with everyone – Read More –

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It’s Not About the Launch

aircraft-74020_1920The past week has been a bit of a whirlwind as Jim and I revealed our plans for Reclaim Hosting with a semi-official launch date of August 15th. We’ve had responses from both public and private institutions, over 50 individuals from as close as George Mason University to as far as Australia and Argentina. At – Read More –

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Reclaim Hosting

It’s been an exciting past few days as Jim and I launched Reclaim Hosting and began building out the system to support the signups. We sat down today to talk about a bit more about it, including some of the software we’re using, as well as talking more about the idea of Distributed EdTech (#dedtech) – Read More –

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A Distributed Domain of One’s Own

openboxThe summer has been hot but quiet in Fredericksburg and I’ve had a lot of fun over the past few weeks working with Martha Burtis to get our new server up and running with the host of software we plan to use to roll out the Domain of One’s Own project to all incoming students – Read More –

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