Reclaim's Roundup, 1/25
Welcome to our monthly news round up, packed with everything that's coming up, dates for the diary and important updates from the last month, all in one place.
News and Announcements
Launching our new Blogging Community of Practice
We are setting out to support a new community of practice for all education bloggers, AKA Bloggers Anonymous. We have a dedicated channel set up in our Discord Community Space. This is a friendly social space where everyone is welcome and which is free to join. There're also live events coming up, so keep an eye on our events calendar in the coming weeks. Read the launch post.
Get started
- Join us on Discord
- #blogging4life is our hashtag on Mastodon, Bluesky, X and YouTube.
Events and Streams on Reclaim TV
Audrey Watters and Jim Groom: Blogging and Writing #4life
January 31, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am ET on Reclaim TV
Join Audrey Watters and Jim Groom on Reclaim TV as they take a deep dive into blogging and writing #4life. We are excited to have special guest Audrey Watters join us for this show. Audrey is the acclaimed author of books including Teaching Machines, The Monsters of Educational Technology and Claim Your Own Domain.
Technology & Society: Generative AI on Reclaim TV
February 14, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am ET on Reclaim TV
Join special guests Autumm Caines and Dr. Lance Eaton as we dive into their fascinating work for College Unbound, a course on Technology & Society: Generative AI, using OpenWebUI in the classroom.
Watch the streams over at Reclaim TV, or catch the recording later on archive.reclaim.tv or our YouTube channel!
ABC of Blogging – Community of Practice Launch
February 19th @12pm ET (Register)
Join us to celebrate the launch of our new Blogging Community of Practice . In this session we'll introduce you to the new dedicated channel for this group in our discord space, show you how to get involved and also focus on the “ABCs” of blogging (ABC = Always Be Commenting). Let us know if you have any ideas for community activities, questions you’d like us to cover or support you’d find helpful. Free to attend & everyone welcome.
Don't forget to Register!
Recent Support and Service Updates
For the start of the new Spring semester we've got some handy Domain of One's Own and WordPress Multisite to support you:
- Domain of One's Own: Supporting Domain of One's Own, DNS: A Quick Summary Understanding Backups and Troubleshooting FTP.
- WordPress Multisite: Supporting WPMS, Keeping your WPMS Secure, Allowing Users to Create Sites and Working with Plugins on WPMS.
Resolving Scalar Issues with PHP 8.1
If your Scalar installation displays PHP errors when loading the site, you can go to the MultiPHP Manager tool in cPanel to check which version of PHP the site is using, to confirm whether the site is using 8.1+. There are two possible fixes outlined in this post.
New look invoices
We're streamlining our invoicing processes for Domain of One's Own and Managed Hosting, making it easier and quicker for you to manage your renewals. Don't be surprised if your invoices look a bit different and if you have any questions please reach out and our team will happy to help.
Contact us for help & support via our support portal.
The Month in Blog Posts and Staff Picks
It's been a busy month in blogging, inspired by our new community of practice, so dive in for your reading pleasure:
In the best tradition... Blogging about Blogging
- The ABCs of Blogging: Always Be Commenting
- Archiving 20 Years of the bava
- Ghost and comments
- Bloggers Anonymous
- Comments now powered by Talkyard
- Blogging #4life, now with added community.
- Blogging small
- One Post at a Time
- Answering the Challenge
DS106 Tech Noir Blogging
- The Automated Dark Side of ds106: Tech Noir,
- Noir Chopper
- Revving Up the ds106 Engine
- Living in AI Oblivion
Elsewhere in our blogosphere:
- The Arcade Tech Stack and Upgrading to Ghost 5.105 by Tim Owens
- Mission Accomplished bava.studio, More Retrogaming Fun with Batocera and Mapping My Bathroom Tile on bavatuesdays
- Trying out RetroNAS and My favorite speed-runs from the first half of AGDQ 2025 by Taylor Jadin
- Reviewing my tech stack: Part 1 by Maren Deepwell
Staff pick: Knowledge Commons with Larissa Babak from Michigan State University
In this episode we are joined by special guest Larissa Babakfrom Michigan State University, learning about the network and taking a look behind the scenes of a change in repository platforms. The Knowledge Commons is the network for knowledge creators across the disciplines. You can use it to discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials, make interdisciplinary connections, build a WordPress website, and increase the impact of your work by sharing it in the repository.
And finally, did you know... Someone made a CAPTCHA where you play Doom on Nightmare difficulty !
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