#identity
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Writing
2026
- Feb 27, 2026 Under the Hood: Setting up a Self-Hosted Jitsi Server on Reclaim Cloud
How I took a one-click Jitsi install on Reclaim Cloud and turned it into a secure, branded, production-ready video conferencing setup.
- Feb 25, 2026 The Door Was Never Locked
A reflection on how default digital tools became invisible infrastructure, and why sovereignty starts by questioning what we were told to trust.
2025
- Oct 11, 2025 Privacy Isn’t Optional: The Expanding Data Dragnet in K-12 and Higher Education
Why privacy matters when data collection feels routine.
2024
- Aug 9, 2024 Me, Myself, and AI
A playful look at generative AI and the question of selfhood.
- Jun 4, 2024 Breaking Out of Our Own Biases: A Journey to Self Awareness
How to notice your own biases and widen your perspective.
- May 24, 2024 Understanding Privilege in Arguments - Principles vs Personal Opinions
How privilege can reshape arguments about social inequality and identity.
- Feb 3, 2024 Navigating the “Self” in the Age of AI: A Journey into Generative Horizons
How AI changes the way we think about the self and our work.
2023
- Nov 11, 2023 Unlocking Your Inner Genius with the Feynman Method
How the Feynman method can help you learn and explain ideas better.
- Oct 1, 2023 Examining White Privilege and Racism – A Review of White Fragilty
A reflection on Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility.
2022
- May 5, 2022 Student Privacy and Pandemics: Understanding and Reducing Privacy and Security Risks
How the pandemic changed the stakes for student privacy.
- Apr 3, 2022 Bearing Witness
A personal reflection on grief, ceremony, and bearing witness.
- Jan 21, 2022 Mind the Gap
A reminder to close the gap between values and behavior.
2021
- Aug 27, 2021 How to Talk About Mental Health
How to talk about mental health with care and clarity.
- Jul 20, 2021 Create a Personal Webpage Using GitHub Pages & Jekyll
A beginner-friendly guide to building a personal webpage with GitHub Pages.
- Jul 17, 2021 There Are Always Two Paths
Why crisis often leaves us with more than one path forward.
- Jun 15, 2021 Memoir and the Creative Process
How memoir can help make sense of mental health and the creative process.
- May 25, 2021 Mental Health and Depression
How trauma and depression affect learning, life, and well-being.
- May 15, 2021 Shine
A short reflection on gratitude, resilience, and showing up.
- May 1, 2021 Carriage House Flooring
We recently moved to our new home, and as a result we have a lot of new projects to complete.
- Apr 2, 2021 Privacy Or Power?
A reflection on student privacy, expertise, and the tradeoff between privacy and power.
- Mar 2, 2021 Finding Value in Life
How to notice value and meaning in everyday life.
- Feb 5, 2021 Leadership Roles, Skills, and You
What makes a worthwhile leader and the roles and skills behind it.
- Jan 18, 2021 Make Time for Self-Care
A brief case for self-care as a practice that supports mental, emotional, and physical health.
- Jan 12, 2021 Fit Versus Fit
Why credentials help, but values and lived fit matter too.
- Jan 7, 2021 Before You Post That Hot Take
Why impulsive hot takes can make online moments worse.
- Jan 4, 2021 How are you complicit?
A hard question about how we help create the conditions we resist.
2020
- Nov 17, 2020 Be joyful, loving, & explosive
A Bradbury quote about joy, love, and creative energy.
- Nov 11, 2020 Becoming Self-Actualized
A reflection on self-actualization, freedom, and long-term purpose.
- Nov 10, 2020 Begin Owning Your Online Content
Why owning your online content starts with having a home base.
- Nov 3, 2020 How to Know You’re Not Insane
A reflection on gaslighting, mistrust, and feeling unmoored from reality.
- Oct 22, 2020 How to Cultivate Self-Awareness
A short guide to cultivating self-awareness through digital identity work.
- Oct 16, 2020 Protect Your Center
Why protecting your center matters when opportunities pull you outward.
- Oct 15, 2020 Be the Documentarian of Your Life
Why documenting your life can help you think more clearly and learn from mistakes.
- Oct 13, 2020 Writing For Yourself
Why writing for yourself is often the best way to find your voice.
- Oct 8, 2020 Building Up Your Digital Identity
How to start building your digital identity from the ground up.
- Oct 7, 2020 Trouble Sounding Stupid
Why sounding stupid can be part of learning and building identity.
- Oct 6, 2020 Sitting Between Life and Death
How digital life reshapes grief, memory, and the spaces between life and death.
- Sep 15, 2020 Be The Expert
A reminder that expertise is built by making and learning from mistakes.
- Apr 22, 2020 Soundtrack Of Your Life
How music becomes the soundtrack for memory, feeling, and identity.
- Mar 10, 2020 Building Ethical Communities
How to think about building ethical online communities.
2019
- Aug 27, 2019 Explain who are you…to this day
How poetry can be used to ask and answer identity questions.
- Jan 16, 2019 Semi-Permeable Membranes as Digital Learning Spaces
Why failure can be part of learning and knowledge growth.
- Jan 9, 2019 The case for anonymity online
Why anonymity can still matter in online spaces.
2018
- Dec 13, 2018 Social Scholarship: Educators in digital, social spaces
How social scholarship prepares students for networked civic life.
- Nov 1, 2018 How to respond to trolling behaviors
How to respond when trolling shows up online.
- Jun 27, 2018 What is IndieWeb & why should you care?
A plain-language introduction to the IndieWeb and what it offers.
- Apr 29, 2018 Switching up my signals
Why I changed my relationship with social networks and digital spaces.
- Feb 23, 2018 “Tell me about yourself” in a critical autoethnography
How critical autoethnography connects identity, culture, and reflection.
- Feb 22, 2018 Living in agreement with your personal nature
How to live in agreement with your values and daily actions.
- Jan 18, 2018 Lyrics, Performance, & Power
How lyrics, performance, and poetry can build student power.
2017
- Jun 20, 2017 What You Need to Know About “Acceptable Use Policies”
What acceptable use policies are really trying to protect.
- May 15, 2017 Reflecting on My StrengthsQuest Report
Why we're using Gallup StrengthsQuest across the institution.
- Jan 4, 2017 Develop Your Own Personal Cyberinfrastructure
How to build a personal cyberinfrastructure for digital identity and control.
- Jan 2, 2017 Three steps to identify and develop your digital identity
Three steps for becoming a more digitally agile educator.
2016
- Aug 19, 2016 Three reasons to become a digitally agile researcher
Why researchers need to stay digitally agile as tools and networks evolve.
2015
- Jul 3, 2015 Deconstruct My Digital Identity Through a Glitch Remix Video – #CLMOOC Make Cycle 1
How a glitch remix helped me deconstruct my digital identity.
2012
- Jun 28, 2012 I Blog…therefore I am…
Why blogging helps us think, write, and share online.
- Mar 19, 2012 Creating and Curating Your Digital Identity
How to create and curate a stronger online identity and brand.
2011
- Jan 12, 2011 A Response to My Earlier Thoughts on Raising a Digital Native
A follow-up reflection on raising a digital native.
2010
- Dec 29, 2010 Raising a Digital Native
How early literacy and digital life shape a child’s development.
Book notes
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- 2025 There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak
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- 2025 Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
Katie Goh
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- 2025 Universality
Natasha Brown
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- 2025 Looking at Women Looking at War
Victoria Amelina
- 2025 Who's Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler
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- 2024 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
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- 2022 Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
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- 2020 The Source of Self-Regard
Toni Morrison
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- 2018 Head On
John Scalzi
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- 2018 When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
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- 2015 Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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- 2011 The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
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- 2010 The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
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- 2008 Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan
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- 2002 American Gods
Neil Gaiman
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- 1998 Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
Tad Williams
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- 1920 The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling