#open-source
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- Writing
- 37
- Book notes
- 0
- Publications
- 1
Writing
2025
- Nov 20, 2025 From Scrap Hardware to Stable Proxmox: Building the Core of My Homelab
How I went from thrifted hardware and confusion to a stable Proxmox base for the rest of my homelab.
- Oct 4, 2025 Mastering Your Local AI: Beyond the Basics
How to move from running local AI to using it well.
- Apr 25, 2025 Why Now Is the Moment to Back Up the Web
Why backing up the web matters for memory, research, and history.
- Apr 23, 2025 Growing Ideas in Public -How I Built My Digital Garden with Obsidian
How I built and published my digital garden with Obsidian.
- Jan 13, 2025 From Clutter to Clarity Streamlining the Newsletter with AI
How AI helped turn a newsletter archive into a connected system.
2023
- Jul 21, 2023 CollaboraThink: Using AI to help people brainstorm and make decisions
How AI can help people brainstorm and make decisions together.
2021
- Jul 20, 2021 Create a Personal Webpage Using GitHub Pages & Jekyll
A beginner-friendly guide to building a personal webpage with GitHub Pages.
- Jan 25, 2021 Ten Rules for Innovative Dissemination of Research
How to share research more creatively and reach wider audiences.
2017
- Jun 29, 2017 Stop Motion Animation, Creativity, & Divergent Thinking
How stop-motion animation can support creativity and divergent thinking.
- Jun 21, 2017 Three Stages to Become a Digitally Agile Researcher
How researchers can build digital agility for more effective, connected work.
- Jun 8, 2017 What is Missing from the Mozilla Web Literacy Standards?
What web literacy standards still leave out.
- Jan 17, 2017 Private online research & discussion using Hypothes.is groups
How Hypothesis can support annotation and peer review in the classroom.
2016
- Nov 15, 2016 Developing a domain of one’s own for pre-service educators
How pre-service educators can build a domain of their own.
- Feb 14, 2016 How to Find Creative Commons Licensed Images and Cite Them Correctly
How to find CC-licensed images and cite them correctly.
- Jan 11, 2016 Using Blogs (and Medium) to Create a Fishbowl Discussion for Project Planning
How blogs and platforms like Medium can support a more open, participatory fishbowl discussion for project planning and collaborative thinking.
2015
- Dec 18, 2015 The Challenge of Open, Online Scholarship in Academia
How open scholarship can fit the culture of academia.
- Nov 24, 2015 Moving Toward Transparency in Higher Education
Why transparency matters in higher education and where the system still hides information.
- Jul 19, 2015 Describing the Complex Systems that Influence & Guide My Workflow
How the systems around us shape the way we work.
- Apr 27, 2015 Creating and Sharing Multimodal Tutorials to Scaffold Learners
How multimodal tutorials can help learners navigate digital tools.
- Apr 16, 2015 Developing & maintaining learning connections online in a networked learning project
How to use the internet as a site for self-directed learning.
2014
- Nov 14, 2014 Teaching, Learning, and Sharing Openly Online
What open teaching and learning ask of teachers and students.
- Sep 4, 2014 Apply a Creative Commons License to your Digital Learning Hub
How to add a Creative Commons license to your digital learning hub.
- Jul 22, 2014 Creating and Sharing Your Ideas Online With Others
How I think about sharing ideas across Google+, Twitter, and Facebook.
- Jun 27, 2014 Literacy practices in an open, networked, collaborative learning space
How literacy practices change in open, networked learning spaces.
- Apr 22, 2014 Open is Serendipity
How open learning creates serendipity in online spaces.
- Mar 18, 2014 The Digital Texts and Tools Online Repository
How an open repository can help archive teaching and learning materials.
2013
- Dec 19, 2013 Responsibilities of Academics and Scholars in Writing and Publishing Online
What academics owe readers when they publish their work online.
- Dec 17, 2013 Open Access Writing, Publishing, and Sharing
How open access shapes writing, publishing, and sharing.
- Oct 31, 2013 Post, Promote, and Protect Your Content Online Using Creative Commons Licensing
How Creative Commons helps you share and protect your content.
- Jul 20, 2013 Creative Commons Licensing of Open Educational Content
A quick guide to Creative Commons licensing for open educational content.
- Jun 11, 2013 Privacy, Identity, & Protecting Yourself (and Your Students) Online
How privacy and identity shape safety for you and your students online.
- Jun 5, 2013 Open Badges Initiatives and Teacher Preparation Programs
How open badges connect to teacher preparation programs.
- May 28, 2013 Notes as We Frame an Open Badge Initiative for Teachers Using Technology
Notes on framing an open badge initiative for teachers.
- May 16, 2013 Towards a System of Open Badges for Teachers & Technology Use
How open badges can support teachers trying to use technology.
- Apr 2, 2013 Inquiry and the Learning Process
Why inquiry matters in teaching, learning, and educational technology.
2012
- Jun 2, 2012 Copyright, Questions, and Open Source Education
A note on copyright questions in open-source education.
- Apr 11, 2012 Open Badges in Education
A look at how open badges fit into education.
Publications
2014
- 2014 Teaching, learning, and sharing openly online
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian; Roberts, Verena; LaBonte, Randy; Graham, Lee. (2014). Teaching, learning, and sharing openly online. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.