#online-content-construction
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Writing
2025
- Nov 6, 2025 Building Human-Centered Digital Communities
How to build digital communities that support people, not just platforms.
- Nov 2, 2025 The Metal Box: Building My Proxmox Homelab
A real-time, messy walkthrough of building a Proxmox homelab.
- Oct 17, 2025 From Subsonic to Plex: My First DIY Server
How my first DIY server kicked off a homelab journey.
- Jan 2, 2025 Designing the Structure of My Digital Garden
How to structure a digital garden with folders, tags, and note stages.
2024
- Dec 17, 2024 Tools I’m Using to Build My Digital Garden
Which tools best support a flexible digital garden workflow.
- Apr 15, 2024 Archiving Your WordPress Blog - A Smoother Transition to Obsidian with ChatGPT
How ChatGPT can help archive a WordPress blog into Obsidian.
2022
- Mar 5, 2022 Guidance on Planning and Building an Organization’s Website
How to plan a website that serves members instead of just existing online.
- Mar 2, 2022 The Metaverse and the Future of the Internet
How the metaverse could reshape the internet and its risks.
2021
- Oct 8, 2021 I’m Teaching Myself TikTok
What it means to teach yourself TikTok as a networked learning project.
- Jun 22, 2021 Consume. Curate. Create.
A simple framework for moving from consuming to creating online.
- Jan 7, 2021 Before You Post That Hot Take
Why impulsive hot takes can make online moments worse.
2020
- Dec 18, 2020 How To Write a Blog Post
A practical guide to writing and publishing a blog post.
- Oct 5, 2020 Exposure Builds Credibility
Why sharing your work builds credibility over time.
2017
- Jul 19, 2017 Internet Inquiry Projects
How WebQuests can evolve into deeper internet inquiry projects.
- May 24, 2017 Stop Motion Movie Creation in Early Childhood Education
How stop-motion projects can support early childhood learning.
- Feb 16, 2017 Building a domain of your own: Selecting a WordPress theme
How to choose a WordPress theme when building your own domain.
- Feb 8, 2017 Building a Domain of Your Own: Installing WordPress
How to install WordPress as part of building your own site.
2016
- Nov 2, 2016 Three steps to move students from readers to writers of digital content
Why students need to move from consuming to creating digital content.
- May 2, 2016 Podcasting
How podcasting uses RSS and why a website still matters.
- Mar 4, 2016 Scaffolding Online & Blended Learning in the Higher Ed Classroom
How to scaffold online and blended learning in higher ed.
- Feb 11, 2016 Lightweight Blogging, Publishing, and Sharing Using Known
A look at Known as a lightweight publishing platform for people who want a simpler way to blog, share, and own their work online.
- Jan 1, 2016 A New Hope: Negotiating the Integration of Transmedia Storytelling & Literacy Instruction
How transmedia storytelling supports literacy instruction across media.
2015
- Nov 23, 2015 Screencaptures & Screencasts in Education, Assessment, and Research
How screencasts can improve assessment and support multimodal learning.
- Nov 10, 2015 Publishing Your Content Online and Syndicating it Elsewhere
How to publish content online and syndicate it across platforms.
- Nov 5, 2015 Getting Started in Medium: Long form response and advanced writing practices
A look at advanced writing techniques in Medium.
- Jul 23, 2015 Scaffolding students (and educators) as they consume, curate, & create online
How to move students and educators from consuming to creating online.
- Jun 26, 2015 Critique and Construction of This Website
How building and breaking your own site helps sharpen your critique.
- Feb 7, 2015 I’m a Webmaker: I build and break things online
A short argument for humility, experimentation, and learning in public from someone who builds, breaks, and figures things out on the open web.
2014
- Oct 9, 2014 Empowering Learners in the Reader/Writer Nature of the Digital Informational Space
How readers can become writers in digital informational spaces.
2013
- Dec 19, 2013 Multimodal Information and the Future of Writing
How multimodal information is changing the future of writing.
- Nov 13, 2013 Empowering Students in the Reader/Writer Nature of Online Information
How to help students read and write more actively online.
- Nov 8, 2013 A Device Agnostic Policy that Allows for Ubiquitous Access to My Content
How to make your content accessible across devices.
- Oct 31, 2013 Post, Promote, and Protect Your Content Online Using Creative Commons Licensing
How Creative Commons helps you share and protect your content.
- Oct 17, 2013 Beta Testing of the Online Research and Media Skills MOOC
What to expect as we beta test the ORMS MOOC.
- Sep 17, 2013 Digital Texts and Tools to Support the Writing Process
A look at digital texts and tools that support my writing process.
- Jul 3, 2013 Experimenting With Stop Motion Animation in the Connected Learning MOOC
Why stop motion animation is a useful connected learning activity.
- Jul 2, 2013 Design Evolution of the Graphics in an Open Badge Initiative
How the graphics for our open badge initiative evolved over time.
- Jun 14, 2013 Preparing to “Launch” Our Open Badging System
What goes into preparing to launch an open badging system.
- Jun 4, 2013 Reflections on Revisions Needed for an Open Educational Resource
What needs revision after launching an open educational resource.
- May 19, 2013 Working Individually & Collaboratively While Constructing Online Content #teachtheweb
How to balance solo and collaborative work while making online content.
- May 1, 2013 What kind of thinking is involved when you Make? #teachtheweb
What kinds of thinking happen when you make content online.
- Apr 15, 2013 Preparing Teachers & Students for Web Literacies
How Mozilla's web literacies work can help teachers and students learn the web.
- Apr 6, 2013 Keynote at the Literacy and Learning Conference
A keynote on the Common Core and new literacies.
- Feb 16, 2013 On Digital Learning Day…Please Also Celebrate Analog Learning
Why digital learning should still leave room for analog learning.
2012
- Dec 10, 2012 How I Write: Research, Collaboration, and Communication using online tools
How online tools support research, collaboration, and writing.
- Oct 17, 2012 Construction and/or Creation of Online Content
How online content construction expands beyond online reading comprehension.
- Oct 10, 2012 Writing & Technology Book Chapter Proposals
A call for chapter proposals on writing and technology.
- Aug 22, 2012 Facilitating Critical Evaluation Skills through Content Creation: Empowering Adolescents as Readers and Writers of Online Information
My dissertation on critical evaluation and online content creation.
- Aug 7, 2012 Storify and Curiosity
A quick test of Storify and the role of curiosity in trying tools.
- Jul 10, 2012 iPads and our work in the Education Department
What we learned after putting iPads into the Education Department's everyday work.
- Jun 28, 2012 I Blog…therefore I am…
Why blogging helps us think, write, and share online.
2011
- Mar 7, 2011 Poetry, Digital Media, and Mobile Phones
How poetry, digital media, and mobile phones intersect in learning.
Publications
2014
- 2014 Online content construction: Empowering students as readers and writers of online information
Book chapter · O'Byrne, W Ian. (2014). Online content construction: Empowering students as readers and writers of online information. Exploring Technology for Writing and Writing Instruction.