 And welcome to day one of Domain's 101. I'm Jim Groom and I'm surrounded by some amazing folks here at Reclaim who will introduce themselves and you'll be hearing a lot from. But I think we wanted to talk a little bit to get this thing started as A, welcome everyone and we'll be hearing more from you shortly. Wanted to give you all kind of a little bit of a sense of the virtual setup and how that's working just so you're all familiar and so there's no questions at the gate. So it'd be interesting if we could take a look at the the site that everybody's looking at right now. So I don't know if I can yeah you can bring that on see as you can see I can actually reach out and say hi five thanks for getting that little bit inception there's a toggle if you see it here it's a toggle live space and if you toggle off live it will just go to like a almost like a placeholder video we're gonna have an infinite mirrors of infinite mirrors effect so you can toggle that but if you ever find yourself not in a live video toggle that video to off and then live or worse comes to worse refresh the page and whatever is playing live will show up so that's kind of the troubleshooting you would need to do if you have any other issues beyond that just reach out in Discord help refreshing the page should be good and we will be fine but usually toggling or refreshing the page will bring you where you need to be as with anything right. Did you try restarting when in doubt refresh but I'm super excited to be here not only in the space physically with you all which I think we'll have a couple camera angles that we can show throughout the workshop but then also to have you know a hybrid virtual model we've got pilot joining virtually and you know obviously everyone joining you know participating in the workshop virtually so this is a really cool opportunity I think for us to slow down and talk a bit about how we're doing this why we want to do it this way you know before even jumping into domain I like your thinking so what are you gonna say about well I think to start I'll say that we started maybe two minutes late because right beforehand Taylor spilled his very physical coffee on the table I almost rare I almost never spill coffee on expensive equipment just right before just about 40 seconds before live you know I have things to tell the St. Albert so if our sound smells like coffee you'll know why yeah yeah into the sound the mic you know I will also say I'll be watching Discord you know as new folks are joining to make sure that you have access to the domains channel event channel and Discord but know that you can always go to workshop reclaim or workshop dot reclaim ed dot tech to a sort of your home page or home base for the workshop and then Discord of course is the the space where we're chatting virtually in between you'll also have the opportunity to join into voice channels if you want to hang out or or anything you know during breaks this is really you know the discord is meant to be a community space not only during this event but beyond that too so you'll see other members in the community that are have joined discord and feel free to engage with them and other channels beyond the domains event channel for the next two days did you all want to start maybe to talk about where we are I would love to I think I might default to the great Taylor Jaden given a lot of what we're in is a result of his work over the years here at St. Norbert and beyond so sure yeah so let's say you so we're we're in uh we're on St. Norbert College's campus in Depeer, Wisconsin and we are in a sort of experimental proof of concept studio space peer to peer Wisconsin uh no no just to peer just to peer to peer yeah yeah just just it's peer to peer to Wisconsin that's my localized jokes you can get all of my humor and more I'm putting out a CD with all of it you just stay tuned that will be at the break so this is a uh sort of proof of concept studio it's in like a 120 year old classroom um so there's some things that are less than ideal about it but um but it's yeah it's kind of a flexible space that the folks at St. Norbert are graciously letting us use which is really cool they even redecorated so behind me over here is like a screen casting station that faculty and students will use to you know make screen recordings and things like that and there's a little shelf here actually before I even get into that I just want to do a quick shot of the room so people can kind of see what this is that's a good idea so I'm gonna oh yeah so Taylor we have many cameras oh look at this is the wireless camera oh boy you're really getting the full so this is the table we're at um there's like a little couch and green screen area it's pretty cool lightboard they probably can't handle that well um they can hear you okay you're you're bouncing off the walls the mic's not great but it's it's working fine and they happen to redecorate over there for us oh look at this so this is fantastic our uh website header and yeah what you can get a little closer Taylor it's amazing it's beautiful this is the best diorama I've ever seen and I already love the room because I mean we'll talk a little bit about how the mics are set up and our dynamic here around this big table but I think you know Annika did that amazing diorama of the Brian Mathers header for our site which is amazing but the space itself that Taylor and the folks at SNC put together is beautiful because it is in many ways a um an homage or no a practice of doing the DIY video recording space where people come together and build and you feel like it it's not that pre-defined crest-drawn million-dollar room that no one can use it really is a room you walk into you feel comfortable you put the headphones on you feel connected with the people you're in the room with and even so much so with pilot who's remote or all of you so it's like it's been a really nice transition to doing our remote virtual space with our group together but also playing with the hybrid notion with pilot not here and then also trying to you know wrap that all in and discord with these videos and so I'm pretty excited about the experimentation with these virtual spaces obviously has some interest in that to some degree given the work we do and it's been fun and I will also say too I think just as a you know we'll get into the tech overview I but I think it's also equally important that we sit with the strategy you know how we're running these events or how we're talking about these you know different digital tools and so I'm really excited I think for the blend over the next two days to have both of those conversations um you know today domains 101 will really be an introduction into domains we want everybody to feel like we're all on the same page starting off and then you know that will take us into the more advanced stuff into tomorrow with domains 201 you know so I'm excited for that you know just as much as I am excited to talk about the strategy and the meta part of this too yeah I agree I mean there's there's a lot and I know Ed Beck is feeling you know feeling a little bit uh how would we say left out because he's not in this space but Ed we're bringing the space to you that's that's what you have to you know you have to suspend a certain amount of disbelief and I'm jealous too Ed it's okay so that's awesome so you know I will say this is an introductory event and I don't think we started by introducing ourselves for we did not at all we should probably maybe I did put a tab in that I put a sticker in that that we could return to it okay so this is a perfect time for us to return to that so for folks joining for the first time my name is Lauren Hanks director of operations at Reclaim I've been with Reclaim for about seven years now and Domain of One's Own holds a special place in my heart I first experienced domains as a student at the University of Mary Washington and that was my first time seeing c-panel installing WordPress for the first time and just you know I remember the light bulb going off when I was able to look and file manager and see how these WordPress files were playing you know the plugins folder it was just a really cool experience and so that's kind of how I started and I'm really excited to be here and looking forward to connecting with everyone virtually yeah I'm Taylor Jaden I've been at Reclaim since about November and I'm our community instructional technologist and so I really like tinkering with Domain of One's Own and Reclaim Cloud and kind of how we can make these things more useful for a bunch of different types of people you know other folks that work with these tools already folks who don't know about them students faculty staff that's the kind of stuff I like doing is thinking through those use cases and how to make them usable and digestible and doing new cool things with them before I was at Reclaim I was I worked actually at St. Norbert College which is where we are today on campus there and I was our Domain's Admin at the time so that's my experience with Domain of One's Own was administering it but before I worked at Reclaim was administering it for several years and yeah so I'm really excited to do this is the first time I've met I've seen Jim and Lauren in person since I think a workshop I did in 2018 one of our first so this is kind of cool for we've mentioned as for us as a team as well so it's been really exciting kind of getting to get comfortable in this space with all the cameras and stuff but also getting comfortable with each other right in running a workshop so I agree pilot let's say you sure I'm pilot I am a hosting account manager with Reclaim which means that I send a lot of emails day to day you may or may not have received some from me I think at this point I've been with Reclaim for I've been with Reclaim since September so more than half a year so you probably have but you know if not you put it in the chat and I'll just send you some emails so you can feel included I in addition to sending emails I also work as part of the ed tech team developing events like this and just sort of seeing what people find useful and how we can help them get it that's really most of it honestly I like talking to people email email works would you say you're passionate about email yes no email is one of my great passions so much so that I set up an autoresponder for this week just to make sure that I knew I wasn't purposefully ignoring them well it's interesting that's both Taylor and pilot who came previously from Domain in one's own school so you could be next out there I'm Jim groom I am along with Tim Owens and essentially Lauren we got the reclaim hosting off the ground and Domain in one's own is how we started is providing a service for faculty students and staff to build their digital presence in what might be referred to as a cyber infrastructure by Gardner Campbell and I think there's a lot of power in that it's something I still very much believe in nine years later as a way forward and I am thrilled that you all are here to dive into that infrastructure that makes it possible for your communities and beyond so I think what we wanted to do at this point was you know get some introductions from all of you where you are what you're doing and we can kind of call that out is that correct Lauren am I am I on script still or have I already left the reservation no this is good and it's it's nice to know who you are because I hadn't heard any of that before no just totally kidding but I think some folks have already introduced themselves in the introductions channel which is awesome yeah and a cool thing about discord I will say and I sort of mentioned this earlier but for folks that are still kind of trickling in the domains 101-201 event is for the participants of this workshop that we're doing right now and tomorrow so that is for this particular event but of course there are a lot of channels and discord where you can connect with other community members so introductions you are introducing yourself to the larger discord community which is awesome we want you to feel like you can use this space even outside of this event but in the events channel you know feel free to introduce yourself again or you know more in the context of domain of one's own what is your role why are you here what are you hoping to get out of the next two days I think you know the more of that information we know up front we can help frame conversations with your goals in mind so you know if you are coming to the table with a set of challenges that you're facing on campus we want to know about that you know if you have questions or you know things that you want to get out of the next two days if you have specific goals let us know because you're likely not the only one and then of course if you're just here to to learn and be a part of the community and take it all in that's also great too that's what I'm most excited for is sort of those unplanned conversations that will definitely come out of the first two days so I'm looking here in the chat it seems like some folks are typing so we'll give you a few minutes people are typing yeah yeah I've never seen several people are typing message in discord so it will we'll give you a few minutes to write in and wait there let's see we've got Dave joining from University of Virginia welcome Dave absolutely yep I also saw Carla um from UVA as well welcome Carla Doug from Hamilton yes hey Doug Doug Higgins Jojo from NYU libraries fantastic I think is a CUNY GC graduate which is where I came from that's where I first started as a instructional technologist which uh I love to see the CUNY mafia always Jackie from Virginia Tech hey Jackie thanks for joining we've got him from Carlton I am hey everyone this is so great um let's see we have a couple from CUNY we have Ed back who was already griping so we're gonna watch him but then also Amanda Schmidt is here from Geneseo hey Matt from Davidson uh from the digital learning team we've had a couple from SNC as well Anika and Nick I've seen in the chat you know I'm particularly interested to hear about um you know teams on campus that are working with student learners to kind of help support these projects I you know I know um Meelenberg does a great job with that UMW has sort of a digital knowledge center um you know I'm always kind you know we were just looking at the SNC tech bar in the other room where you have student workers that are kind of helping so I always think that that's pretty cool um hi Anika thanks for joining virtually we just said hey in person a few minutes ago Hi Tierney good to hear from you this is just fun I love seeing all of these uh names just popping up I just if I keep saying magic none of you have heard me say this but all day yesterday I was saying oh this is so magical I'm just I'm sticking by it I think I'm I think I'm totally um the other thing while everybody's sort of introducing themselves um you know we could maybe talk about here for a few minutes is just where domain of one's own sits in the larger idea of the reclaim hosting or reclaim ed tech community because I think you know we'll be dedicating the next two days to talking about domain of one's own but it will likely trickle into other conversations for WordPress multi-site or reclaimed cloud or other digital platforms that folks are using in partnership with domains and so I think it's important that we contextualize domain of one's own in the space of something bigger um so not sure if you all have any thoughts on that well it's interesting because starting the conversation and again seeing all the people roll in like Mo Tierney Heather from the Bronx I'm a New Yorker myself so I always loved Fordham actually quick story and I will get to your point Lauren the father O'Hare at Fordham who was the president there for several at least a couple of decades was my neighbor's uncle and so I was kind of grew up like always wanting to go to Fordham never did get in but that's uh anyway more than you ever want to know about you know the various offerings at um at reclaim it's interesting because domain of one's own has been the way in which I mentioned earlier we provided hosting for schools who saw value of it and we really did it through single sign-on and the holy trinity of applications which we'll talk about in depth here shortly but one of the things that emerged out of that is people coming to us and saying that's great but I also need a WordPress multi-site for you know scaling this so that we don't for those folks who don't need c-panel and something we'll talk about in some depth tomorrow is another element that we've been kind of building out is you know what happens when you have a site that needs to be always online it needs to scale resources immediately it needs to be pay only for what you use we kind of have this whole idea of reclaim cloud emerged and so like they almost sit between the domain of one's own in some interesting ways and it's interesting just to see us as a kind of as a group sharing and changing our skill set to deal with the demands that come across the university now for a wide variety of things and the main of one's own like you said it's very near and dear because it was the whole idea of taking some control over these spaces but there's no one way to do domain of one's own at any given school and it's one of the things I love about it right it's not cookie cutter it's not like oh this is the main of one's own and you have to use it this way I mean we have 20 people here and I'm sure there's almost 15 to 20 different ways they're imagining it even if there are a lot of overlap in some of the ways they're using it yeah be it like how it's positioned in a school you know in terms of who it's available to or even just who manages it like that actually has a lot of effect on how it gets used right because just having a tool as I'm sure everyone here knows like just because something exists on a campus doesn't mean anyone knows about it so like how does it get promoted how does it get supported who are you talking to are you going into are you able to go into classrooms and have classrooms use domain of one's own or is it a more small individual projects how do how do people confront it you know the for the first time when when a like a freshman on campus what what is the first time they're going to hear about domain of one's own likely at your school that greatly affects how it's used yeah or even if a school sees it as something that students use or maybe just graduate students or some people focus it just on faculty right so like there will be a varying degree it's interesting just from the comment we see right there on the screen is a big theme that's emerged at several schools s and c is one here on the ground that they can speak to is bringing in student workers who are getting kind of exposed and excited about some of the possibilities i mean you even noted that you know anika's worked with you as a student aid and we'll talk about that but now is excited about being an ed tech i just think that's awesome yeah right yeah like you're bringing in the next generation of cool ed techs from the ground up and they see the possibilities i just love it if you install it they will come yeah so i've been bringing in some of the comments from folks just because i think it's great to have on the on the screen and feature you know the different ideas and perspectives and experiences coming in for the next two days and jim i loved what you said just about how domain of one's own is fitting into you know somewhere in the middle of these other services too and i like to think of it as you know wordpress multi site is a really great entry point for a lot of users a lot of beginner students for instance who are just needing a quick wordpress site to get up and running and that has a very valid helpful space and can work super well with something like domain of one's own where you need more room to explore and play around maybe you know the plugins in a multi site you want to think beyond those you know and so domains has we're seeing a lot of schools that will have both and they run in partnership with each other and then now to have this sort of third more niche tier called reclaim cloud you know to think beyond even c panel is really cool so i like exploring that model of delivery in general and i'm excited you know as we are jumping into the next two days to think about or to hear from you all how you're thinking about these tools and how they might be helpful on campus and it's a really good point you make lauren is the idea that reclaim ed tech which now these workshops are in some ways kind of brought within um is providing a kind of more kind of thoughtful hopefully i want to say instruction but maybe that's maybe that's overselling it in that like we're trying to get people into and understand various possibilities like tom woodward next month will be dealing with gravity forms and looking at them and all the things you can do with them to basically create applications within wordpress and then in july taylor and i will be taking on containers and thinking through docker and i think all of that is of a piece is as we're imagining reclaim ed tech more generally is is there a space for educational technologists to get some of this prep profession professional development on the fly with like-minded ed techs who are trying or up against similar maybe not like-minded but still share similar structures and you know issues that they have to work through and i'm pretty excited about that actually and just looking from the comments to audrey park from emerson mentioned um that they use multi-site for classes and single sites for folks um wanting more flexibility um and then amanda also said that they're interested in learning more about legacy methods too i think that that's very common we're seeing a lot of schools come to us saying hey i have this multi-site from 10 plus years ago what do we do with it my favorite though or when schools come to us they're like we have a a tilde space we want to get rid of and then they're talking to the wrong person because i'm like what you can't get rid of it like you have to preserve that and then like but like there is amazing some of the stuff you see and you know open education obviously often gets associated directly with oer and for some good reason but i think there's a long history of websites and straight up html that ed techs in the 90s were showing faculty how to share resources and i think that's part of our story um that maybe should be preserved i know matt gold had done a bunch of those in the 90s for me and other folks at the graduate center and i did some of that at mary washington and like there is this idea of nothing is more portable than an html site from the 90s i mean there's one of the most beautiful things about that at tech and it's a i like thinking this in a broader maybe long historical space and we're seeing the emergence of you know the next generation of digital learning environments which are often not on a lamp environment like domain of one's own and that's something we have to kind of work with our community to get ready for totally um and to that point switching gears into the next two days which will be focused primarily on domain of one's own uh we're going to kick it off here in a couple of minutes with a system refresh and overview of domain of one's own so again we're going back to the basics this will likely be a refresher for a lot of the folks joining but we it's important to be in this time and make sure we have good you know a conceptual understanding of that tech before we jump into some of the more strategic or you know support-based conversations around domain of one's own so with that in mind i want to kick off a question before we start our next session what is domain of one's own sounds simple but the answer is going to be different for each admin for each user it's going to look different and i think it's would probably be a cool exercise to hear what domain of one's own is to you all maybe in the chat think of a two to three sentence answer your elevator pitch we're going to do the same in the next session that we jump to in about two minutes you know but i think sitting in in the space it's good practice to to actually break down okay what is this yeah exactly not tech you know what is it what does it mean for anyone yeah i think i would encourage people to get philosophical i think i was like encouraging people to get yeah but i also think i mean one of the great things about that is i think there's no one pitch right like just like there's no one way people use it i'm always interested in it maybe being a hammer that just you know hits a certain nail or it being a you know digital tool case of philosophical possibility but like i like that like i one of the things i've loved most about domain of one's own is that it it it is what you imagine it to be by by extension of much of the other philosophy that drives the work you do and i think that's why it fits for many of the coolest ed techs i'm a big fan cool my favorite metaphor for c-panel is a toolbox just just because you brought up the hammer analogy just thinking about people have called it like john udell has referred to it as a user innovation toolkit where you can see what people are bringing to you know what and i think that's how like one of those tools are known as like swiper got invented none of that thing where you go around your house and you like clean it up with just a swiper thing it's a very simple thing you put a pad on that was invented are you describing a vacuum no swiping swiper but like swiffer i do think that swiffer was created as part of the the folks who used their tool johnson to johnson whoever makes it came back and said this is what we came up with almost like the lego ideas idea like this is what we built in domain of one's own is at its greatest if someone who uses it comes back to you and says this is what we built on the platform you gave us and it's better than what you have right i'm gonna have to have a sign to be like jim 30 seconds yeah okay let's let people get a couple minute break catch their breath and then we will jump into the next session in a few few minutes see you there