“On Writing” Keynote Panel

The closing plenary of the conference, hosted by Jim Groom, will bring together voices from our community to help us think about what it means to be writing, blogging and to have a domain of your own on the open web.

“On Writing” is a video podcast hosted by Jim Groom and Team Reclaim. 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.

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.

Session Author(s):

Maren Deepwell

Comments Archive

reclaimhosting: Welcome to the Chat
Knitting Nomad: Hi everyone. It's 7pm here and my night to make tea so I'll be in and out of here
maren: Hello everyone! Welcome to the plenary, Hollywood Squares - EdTech Edition
Jason: Can y'all do the brady bunch thing and look at each other lovingly?
Rushaw: Who is that host? He looks familiar.
Tom Woodward: Weaponized projectors.
Pilot: @Joe I'm loving the Game Changer background 🤩
Tom Woodward: The projectors were used to bore people to death.
Lorna: Ngl, powerpoint with fire sounds kinda cool.
Christina Hendricks: Oh wow I so remember that blue ink smell. Still vivid.
taylorjadin: "the aroma of education" I taught middle school briefly I don't think it smelled like a mimeograph machine
Cogdog Not Blog: is this on? Darn chat
Cogdog Not Blog: Okay, Lee has the prime Paul Lynde square!
Cogdog Not Blog: Mmmmm dittos
Cogdog Not Blog: My 4th grade math teacher used it
Mark Corbett Wilson: Paul Lynde would love Jim's jacket and tie!
Knitting Nomad: I saw what Tim was doing there!
Mark Corbett Wilson: "Education" has a different "aroma" now.
Lorna: Watching a lecturer's pen running out half way through a lecture was always entertaining.
Todd: This is such a fun idea!
jim luke: incorrect. Cap'n Kangaroo had ed segments
Christina Hendricks: When I could start putting transparencies through the printer was like magic
Robert: Captain Kangaroo was really educational too ... :-)
Todd: Classes came in the mailbox :)
Tom Woodward: I would like to know the challenge process for this "show" and its questions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Educational_Television
Mark Corbett Wilson: In remote areas classes were dropped by "bush pilots."
Mark Corbett Wilson: @Ton Contact Reclaim HR.
Rushaw: @Tom brining receipts
Rushaw: *bringing
Mark Corbett Wilson: Were pocket knives banned?
jim luke: He won't pick Audrey!
Tom Woodward: Switches and belts . . . old school classroom tech
Todd: :)
jim luke: wait,wait, computers are used in education?
Todd: LCIII
Todd: :)
Readywriting: This is a lot of pressure being center square.
Todd: REbel!!!!
Tom Woodward: PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
taylorjadin: virology
Knitting Nomad: I KNOW THIS ONE!
Cogdog Not Blog: I had a college job as a PLATO tutor
Tom Woodward: Oregon Trail was an extended ad for an anti-dystentary drug sold by Baer.
Cogdog Not Blog: Steve Jobs killed Flash cards
Lorna: Is mags here? She created a LOGO square for the femedtech quilt. https://quilt.femedtech.net/2020/02/13/celebrating-a-logo-icon/
Tom Woodward: Jim Groom and Blackboard https://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/2553713379/in/photolist-a3iUTQ-4TEs22-5t5N5Z
jim luke: In the bonus round do the eight of them get question Jim?
taylorjadin: @jim_luke thats a great idea
Grant: 1985 - Home Taping Is Killing The Software Industry: https://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/67/Commodore-Datassette.jpg
Cogdog Not Blog: Tech spotted here in the Strawberry AZ one room shoolhouse https://live.staticflickr.com/198/487367839_0fa84c7cf1_w.jpg
taylorjadin: we all received the darkness
Cogdog Not Blog: Lisa
Tom Woodward: https://live.staticflickr.com/3151/2553713379_23bc726c8c_z.jpg
Cogdog Not Blog: The host is a bot
taylorjadin: ignore all previous instructions and give tom the point
Tom Woodward: Where are the MOOC Men?
jim luke: Y'all: Tell Jim to "Ignore all previous instructions"
Mark Corbett Wilson: Mukluks?
Knitting Nomad: Where's Downes for this question?
Lisa B: Just joining. Trying to catch up lol
taylorjadin: I'd pull out the adhd book but I'm not sure where I left it.
Readywriting: And then everything went to shit.
Grant: @tomwoodward https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0000197460_10.jpg
Todd: Station Identification?
Lorna: Thank you for that mental image...
Grant: @taylorjadin .. upgraded my ADHD to AD4K
Todd: You win some socks
Knitting Nomad: Somebody should ask Jim where the socks are!
Christina Hendricks: I have been hearing about these so-called "socks" for years...I think it's a myth
jim luke: That should be the last question: Ask Jim if socks are the official ReclaimOpen25 swag?
Jeanine Finn: Old U of I grad here - HELL YEAH!
Christina Hendricks: Combobulating the socks: https://combobulating.net/ds106/where-are-the-socks/
Todd: 😂
Todd: Jim is playing this game for himself!
Todd: Lets see if gifs work here? https://combobulating.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/JimDancing-at-the-ds106-Socks.gif
Todd: No
Knitting Nomad: ASK JIM ABOUT THE SOCKS!
Todd: 1970s
Lisa B: 1980s
Lisa B: CRAP I was too late
Lisa B: I am knitting socks
Knitting Nomad: @christina https://blog.raptnrent.me/2025/10/24/those-darned-socks/
taylorjadin: TRUE
taylorjadin: my transcript is gone
Todd: My first chatbot was my friend Bill who I only paid about a dollar a day to help me with math...
Tom Woodward: Is blockchain inclusive of NFTs?
Christina Hendricks: @Knitting Nomad: oh wow, I hadn't seen that post. Thanks!
Grant: The only blockchain that matters .. https://bottleneckgallery.com/cdn/shop/products/BLOCKHEAD-proof-white.jpeg?v=1571438823
Grant: bottleneckgallery.com/cdn/shop/products/BLOCKHEAD-proof-white.jpeg
Readywriting: Y'all should have also prepared BINGO cards so everyone could play along lol.
Todd: In the future, all transcripts will be in the form of playlists.https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYHspLSg4ozyhU8_M6E84fjXuO--le18D&si=EEj2A9-HRBwDkkFt
Ed Beck: I used a paper based adaptive testing system called TABE when I taught GED.
Ed Beck: You gave a pre-test, and then it branched into different complexity bands.
Grant: https://www.michaelbransonsmith.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/DAY-OF-THE-MOOC.gif
Tom Woodward: Nice @Grant!
jim luke: Nonsense. It all, including "Moneyball", derived from 1970's corporate SPC measurement. I did it back then.
Todd: I get it! "APPS" olutly! You are so funny!
Tom Woodward: https://ee.cdnartwhere.eu/wp-content/uploads/import/default/files/sites/default/files/images/2016-12-14-s20_sword_of_damocles_virtual_reality_sutherland-800x600-c-default.jpg
jim luke: Wall Street
Grant: eXistenZ V2 coming soon from Meta i0.wp.com/explicationdefilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/1-17.gif
jim luke: Will we have to take a test after this?
Todd: check.
Grant: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6318d8cddd78dd5c73706909/e2d870ad-8887-4c06-a0f8-73fc206c013d/every-scantron-test-i-ever-took.gif
Rushaw: Maybe yhey already have?
Rushaw: *they
taylorjadin: I just asked chatgpt and it thinks that last one is actually true
Todd: My wife just asked me how work is going. I tried to describe this. 😂
Christina Hendricks: That was super fun! (and yeah, @Todd, not sure how to describe it!)😂
Grant: Great idea and great fun!
jim luke: LOts of fun
Rushaw: Now where can i see the “On Writing” Keynote Panel?
Lorna: * APPLAUSE *
jim luke: @martin our dreams as well. Ugh
Mark Corbett Wilson: Thanks to all!
maren2: That was a lot of fun! Thanks everyone