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Blogging Community of Practice - Blog-A-Thon
2025-10-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
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Reclaim Open Countdown: Next Week!
2025-10-31 12:00 - 13:00
Next week we’re holding our flagship conference Reclaim Open, so in this week’s stream we give you a quick orientation of how to take part and how to make the most of the event. Tune in to hear more about what’s in store and learn how YOU can get involved.

Join us Reclaim Open 2025 Rewilding the Network – Making New Connections. It’s not too late to Register now.

Reclaim Open - Rewilding the Network
2025-11-04 - 2025-11-06
Reclaim Open returns! Join us online from November 4-6th as we come together on the open web, via federated social networks, on the radio and on a blog near you. Head over to the conference site to explore the schedule and learn more about our keynote speakers, presenters and bloggers.
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Registration will remain open up until and throughout the event. As in previous years, we work hard to keep the conference fees as affordable as possible.

"On Writing" with Special Guest Catherine Cronin on Reclaim TV
2025-11-14 12:00 - 13:00
“On Writing” is a video podcast hosted by Jim Groom and Team Reclaim and for this episode we are thrilled to welcome Dr Catherine Cronin. Catherine is an independent scholar focused on critical and social justice approaches in digital, open and higher education; and recently co-edited the recently published open-access book Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures with Laura Czerniewicz.
Since we established our Blogging Community of Practice, AKA Bloggers Anonymous, at the start of this year, our community activities have grown as more members join the group, and these conversations about writing and blogging are an important part of stimulating the conversations we are hoping to foster.
Watch the stream over at Reclaim TV, or catch the recording later on archive.reclaim.tv or our YouTube channel!
Catch up with “On Writing” , featuring interviews with bloggers and writers including Audrey Watters, Kine Lane, Mike Caulfield, Amy Collier, Tom Woodward, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Adam Croom, Bryan Alexander, Chris Long, Kate Bowles, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Tim Klapdor, Martin Weller and Bonnie Stewart.
Join our Blogging Community of Community of Practice
We have a dedicated blogging channel set up in our Discord Community Space. This is a friendly social space where everyone is welcome and which is free to join. Follow the hashtag #blogging4life on Mastodon and Bluesky, where you can also join our EdTech Bloggers starter pack. Subscribe to our blog to keep up to date with what’s happening, and check back here for upcoming events.

#ReclaimOpen25 Rewind: Conference Highlights
2025-11-21 12:00 - 13:00
As part of our #ReclaimOpen25 Rewind series we are bringing you highlights from our recent conference. Instead of the usual live stream, we invite you to watch the recordings below. If you missed it live, this is your chance to experience the magic of the event, find inspiration and explore resources. For this Friday’s instalment we bring you the most watched session from each of the three days:

Remix is #4Life: Why we all love the Daily Create and you should too
The Daily Create (TDC) is a creative challenge that is published every day at 5am EST, free and open to all. For many years the link to the day’s challenge was tweeted to the #DS106 hashtag, nowadays it toots to the same hashtag on Mastodon, where we Daily Creators still participate and riff off each other. Some of us complete the TDC every day, others dip in and out from time to time. There are no prizes, and no sanctions. The only rule is to MAKE ART, DAMMIT!
Join us, a group of regular and irregular Daily Creators, as we chat about all things TDC. In this session we’ll talk about many things. Likely topics will be:

Motivations for participation in the daily create
The echoes involved when one person riffs on someone else or a previous response
The theory of remix and bricolage that underpins these types of practices
What an affinity group is, and how this might explain the connections that are built in remix activities
How the TDC is a gateway into digital literacy, with free and open resources

We will also each introduce some of our favourite challenges from past daily creates to give a flavour of why we keep returning to participate in the TDC.
Finally, we would like to take the opportunity to issue an open invitation to everyone to join us in the open and participate in future daily creative activities. But beware – #DS106 is #4Life!

WonderCat: An Alternative to Recommendation Algorithms
WonderCat is a relational database of human experiences with narrative. The project is designed as an experimental alternative to reading lists (in courses) and recommendation algorithms (in the real world). It is intended primarily as a discovery tool, helping users find creative works that have been valuable to real readers. It does not deliver personalized recommendations.
The tool is built around three taxonomies: Experiences, Narrative Technologies, and Impacts. The terms in these taxonomies and their definitions are published as glossaries, and we have designed a review process for glossary terms that allows any user of WonderCat to contribute to our ever-expanding understanding of narrative in the world.
The site is built with WordPress, which has been customized with ACF. Visualizations of this data are built with the R package Shiny, which pulls in Wikidata to provide dynamic visualizations of the experiences in our database.
Our presentation will focus on two goals we tackled in Summer 2025, presenting our solutions (so far) and inviting ideas from the Reclaim community. Our first goal was to make Shiny WonderCat load more quickly (we’ll share our experiments with cron jobs) and our second was to develop an editorial workflow that encourages the general public to engage with our editorial board (we’ll share our experiments with Gravity Flow).
We hope participants will leave the session inspired to develop their own alternatives to recommendation algorithms.

Replacing a live site with a high-fidelity web archive mirror
You have your own web domain (a blog, a course website, etc..) but you (or your institution or your government!) don’t want to keep maintaining or updating the site, but you still want to keep a high-fidelity archived, fixed in time?
Web archiving allow us to create high-fidelity copies of entire websites. Web archive mirroring is a new approach to keep the site, exactly as it was (or as close as possible) on its original domain (or replacement domain), but powered by a web archive!
This presentation will cover new open source tooling from Webrecorder, which allows for creating statically hosted (and low-cost) mirrors entirely from web archives.
We will provide simple examples and also cover more sophisticated examples of multi-site mirrors such as the one hosted on https://govarchive.us/

#ReclaimOpen25 Rewind: Rewilding voice in a time of enclosure
2025-11-28 12:00 - 13:00
This week there’s no live stream as our team takes a well deserved break. We wish all who celebrate Happy Thanksgiving! We also have a treat in store for you instead of our usual Reclaim TV stream:
As part of our #ReclaimOpen25 Rewind series we are bringing you highlights from our recent conference. If you missed it live, this is your chance to experience the magic of the event, find inspiration and explore resources.
Rewilding voice in a time of enclosure – Dr Bonnie Stewart, Associate Professor, Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning

About our keynote
In a world of feeds full of algorithmic reels and AI slop, what does it mean to write for ourselves? In a post-RSS, post-social media era, how do we navigate the enclosure and weaponization of the platforms that once networked the voices of the open web? And if we *do* push through the journey of crafting our own voices, our own narratives…does the breakdown of networks and fracturing of the open web mean our voices will echo, unheard? This session is aimed at tracing the sociomaterial shifts in what writing online has meant over the last 15-20 years, and convening a social, back-and-forth discussion via Mentimenter. It will explore and poll participants’ experiences and feelings about the various questions posed, and what answers and suggestions we can muster, as a collective. It will explore what’s been lost, but also what possibilities remain when the web is viewed as what Ursula Franklin called a ‘holistic technology’…as opposed to the prescriptive technologies that enclosure and automation offer us. The session will focus on ‘re-wilding’ ideas of voice and a commons even within our polluted information ecosystem, and on building capacity to connect with each other and to value each other’s voices.Dr
Dr Bonnie Stewart, Associate Professor, Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor.

#ReclaimOpen25 Rewind: AI Maddeness
2025-12-05 12:00 - 13:00
As part of our #ReclaimOpen25 Rewind series we are bringing you highlights from this year’s conference. Instead of the usual live stream, we invite you to watch the recording below and this is one video you won’t want to miss!
Join Jim Groom and Tom Woodward as they delve into how generative AI tools like ChatGPT can be used to simulate, narrate, and enhance digital sports experiences inspired by Madden 2001. From generating game summaries and player previews to automating schedules and standings, the project demonstrates how AI can streamline the storytelling and administrative sides of a sports simulation. The session is a blend of practical experimentation with creative reflection, showing how structured prompts, GPT customization, and API integration can turn raw game data and screenshots into engaging media content. Beyond the technical achievements, AI Maddeness also raises questions about creativity, community, and cultural context when humans and machines co-author digital play.

#ReclaimOpen25 Rewind: Re-wilding EdTech: a collaborative speculative scenario design workshop
2025-12-12 12:00 - 13:00
As part of our #ReclaimOpen25 Rewind series we are bringing you highlights from this year’s conference. Instead of the usual live stream, we invite you to watch the recording below and this is one video you won’t want to miss!

What if we stopped trying to control our digital tools and let them run wild instead? This workshop uses speculative design methods to imagine educational technologies that refuse to behave, systems that glitch creatively, algorithms with unpredictable logic, and learning platforms that evolve beyond their design.
Through collaborative activities, we’ll share stories of technological chaos prompted new thinking, explore uncertain futures using scenario techniques, and sketch alternatives to conventional EdTech. Instead of chasing efficiency, we’ll consider how breakdowns and digital decay might become creative catalysts.
Drawing from Tyrrell’s concept of “waste as an interface” in classrooms (2025), we’ll examine how invisible maintenance work shapes learning environments and explore alternatives to sterile tech-utopian visions. Participants will try out methods like collaborative scenario mapping and speculative sketching to question how educational technology might shift from control to adaptation, from optimisation to experimentation, from smooth operation to productive disruption.
We’ll compost (Hall, 2021) our frustrations with obedient technology into wild possibilities for educational futures. Participants will leave with tools for speculative design and a different perspective on what EdTech could become when freed from human expectations.

Blogging Community of Practice Holiday Special
2025-12-17 12:00 - 13:00
This month’s we are celebrating a whole year of blogging as our Blogging Community of Practice turns 1! Join us for this holiday special as we come together and reflect on a year of blogging, sharing practice and supporting each other to find and make our voice heard on the open web.

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Subscribe to our blog to keep up to date with what’s happening
Come along to our events
Find out what is going on across our community

A Backwoods CMS adventure
2025-12-19 12:00 - 13:00
Taylor is live on Reclaim TV today to take you on a Backwoods CMS adventure which he premiered at Reclaim Open. Watch the stream over at Reclaim TV, or catch the recording later on archive.reclaim.tv or our YouTube channel!
Tired of your same old CMS? Maybe take a small vacation from it and try this out. I’ll be your trail guide for this rustic web authoring adventure. While this is a vacation and it will have its charms, we will be roughing it, so be prepared to explore this computer history wilderness. Luckily, you can leave your bear mace at home.
We’re going to blog like you’ve never blogged before. Blog like it’s 1999… or rather 1997. Experience the future of yesterday’s content management systems and WYSIWYG editors, today!

Read the post: https://jadin.me/a-backwoods-cms-adventure/

Admin Workshop: WordPress Multisite (WPMS)
2026-02-17 12:00 - 17:00
This workshop brings together a group of administrators from various schools for training and discussion as we take a deep dive into a WordPress Multisite (WPMS). The workshop provides both applied training and concrete examples of administering WordPress Multisite (WPMS), along with individual help, peer support and time for questions.
Workshop learning outcomes:

Learn about administering WPMS
Explore themes and plug-ins
Find out how to build a WPMS that supports your goals
Learn more about troubleshooting and how to fix common issues

Who should attend: new and established administrators looking to develop their skills, learn about security, plugins and accessibility features.
