Hack Education

AUGUST 23, 2016

Maha Bali has written a blog post asking why we talk about “a domain of one’s own” and “reclaim your domain” since people never really own their domains. The “domain of one’s own” isn’t owned; it’s leased, Maha contends. We own little to nothing.

Software 40

Software Data Company Libraries 40

ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Once your server is setup, and you have leased a domain name for your site, you will need FTP or SSH access to the server to transfer your _site folder to your server. Many digital humanists are now using Reclaim Hosting or Sly Media Networks to rent server space. Either one of those should do for your purposes.

Libraries 40

Libraries Examples Company Twitter 40

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 22, 2016

Adapting language from Wikipedia for the sake of expediency: Eminent domain is the power of a state or a national government to take private property for public use. ” The Fifth Amendment did not create the national government’s right to use the eminent domain power, it simply limited it to public use.

Accessibility 60

Accessibility Libraries Exercises Industry 60

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. I remain skeptical that leasing low-cost Chromebooks represents a good deal for schools. emailed W-2 forms and employee information to a person posing as the superintendent.

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Instead, these schools and nonprofits lease their licenses to commercial internet providers for cash (and free accounts) in secret deals. And now the market worth of these licenses mattered a great deal because, since the 1980s, the FCC had allowed license holders to lease up to 95 percent of their spectrum to commercial operators.

Broadband 87

Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 87

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The University of Northern New Jersey had a website — one with a.edu domain, to boot — as well as several active social media profiles. Although its main business appeared to be buying and leasing real estate, WeWork had several education-oriented subsidiaries too, one of which MissionU closed its doors last year.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145