Since its launch over a decade ago, our services such as Domain of One’s Own, Shared Hosting and WordPress Multisite have grown into an important part of the infrastructure students and faculty rely on at hundreds of schools.
This session will showcase some of the wonderful work that is shaping the web for the next generation.
Comments Archive
reclaimhosting: Welcome to the Chat
Taylor Jadin: so excited for this!!
Tierney Steelberg: This is such a great idea – so excited to see the student work showcased.
Stephen Downes: Hiya
cogdog blog: i vividly remember the UMW student talks at Faculty Academy, especially Shannon Hauser talking about her growth from class blogging to her own interest, hiw her domain was a living pirtfolio
Joe Murphy: I can't say it loud enough - student talks are *always* the best things at education conferences! So glad to see y'all!
maren: Here is the link to Olivia's work https://hilltown-edge-magazine.openlab.oneonta.edu/
maren: Here is the project of Finalist No. 2 https://usvietnamcelebration.vt.domains/
Stephen Downes: Hilltown site looks good, nice & clean
Mo Pelzel: @Joe ... for sure! Student panels for the win.
Stephen Downes: mmmm Vietnamese Recipes
Joe Murphy: @Mo Hi there! Good to see you!
maren: Thanks everyone, our student speakers are really appreciating the comments.
cogdog blog: Agree with love for this format, even better than the typical student panels- this us do valuable to see their work. bravo!
Alexis Block: This is such an awesome holistic view of a cultures! I love that food, music, and learning were all combined!
cogdog blog: these sites are powerful and inspirational, msybe jim groom there could be a site where people share orher peoples sites that “inspire” them!
Mark Corbett Wilson: Storymapping! And they used the free and open source Knight Labs software.
Stephen Downes: My only criticism of this format is that it's a competition - there's no need to select a 'winner' from this group
Mark Corbett Wilson: Oh Stepehen, you're such an anarchist. 😎
Stephen Downes: Knight Lab storymapping tools https://knightlab.northwestern.edu/projects/
Stephen Downes: Maren, link for #3?
maren: HEre we are https://github.com/beckej13820/red-dragon-portfolio
Stephen Downes: :)
maren: Link to Finalist 3 https://github.com/beckej13820/red-dragon-portfolio
maren: This is on Github :)
Ed Beck: Here's a link to WordPress Playground that would let you play with the theme:
https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beckej13820/blueprint-wordpress-playground-red-dragon-portfolio/refs/heads/main/blueprint.json
Jason: love the inspiration gallery idea
Mark Corbett Wilson: I canna wait to try the Red Dragon theme on my eportfolio!
Ed Beck: Try editing the front page, and you'll see the patterns they created that will show up in the pattern directory
Ed Beck: and then, most of the work was done in creating those custom patterns.
Jason: Yeah, FSE is kinda scary when you're not used to it.
Ed Beck: Here's Ava's portfolio built with Red Dragon Portfolio
https://avalebid.openlab.oneonta.edu/
Stephen Downes: "very convoluted at first..." described WP's editor perfectly
Mark Corbett Wilson: Do you help students outside CUNY?
cogdog blog: i love the playground, its on my list of “stuff i want to play with”
Tierney Steelberg: Yes, so much great portfolio work happening across institutions – I am in awe of the work y'all have done at Oneonta, this is so inspiring!
Jason: I love that students are doing this and providing this training. I used to do a lot of faculty training on WP. It's not always easy and I can only imagine this is so beneficial for everyone involved on many leveles.
Charlie Edwards: Such fantastic projects! Congratulations and thank you so much for sharing!
maren: Here is the link for Finalist 4 https://thestatetimes.com/
maren: Look out for the 2026 student showcase, folk, if you know of student projects you could nominate for next year :)
Jason: Pirate blogging! ;)
Stephen Downes: I've worked with the news site WP themes, they're not the easiest toi manage
Joe Murphy: Really impressive. Opens up an interesting way of talking about project sustainability with students.
cogdog blog: but FSE gets away from those superbloated premium themes that injected an entire OS like layer on a site and filled sites with shortcode blarg.
Mark Corbett Wilson: I'm sure the administrators will find a line in their budget to reward Rick for his 15 years of work! 😇
Jason: if not now, then when?
A. Rush: Bouncing back and forth between webinar and Reclaim Open but it does my heart good to see so much Oneonta stuff
A. Rush: Go Ed!
A. Rush: And go all students!
Tierney Steelberg: Congratulations to all the finalists – these are all such fantastic projects!
Ed Beck: Don't leave this event, enjoy the Reclaim Open, but I encourage everyone to sign up for the WPCampus Accessibility Summit, so you get access to the recordings:
https://wpcampus-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/8517600114996/WN_QD246GTVQ6WakJHwd4RMSQ
Jason: Very inspiring. TY all!
Joe Murphy: 👏👏👏
A. Rush: @EdBeck I'm in that webinar right now
Ed Beck: There's a really nice panel that will include the creators of 3 different accessibility plugins, all built open source.
Tierney Steelberg: This is so lovely! Congratulations to all the winners! :)
Mark Corbett Wilson: Yeah!! Winners!!!
HibbittsDesign: 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Joe Murphy: 👏👏👏👏👏👏
HibbittsDesign: Congratulations!
A. Rush: Congrats everyone!
Tierney Steelberg: 👏👏👏👏👏
Sarah: Everyone's a Winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHTcQB_4AFw
Mark Corbett Wilson: Congratulations to all!
maren: Thanks everyone for joining us!
Lisa B: Love this work!
Lisa B: Mary Washington College alum here, feeling like a lot comes full circle for me with this work. (I'm too old to have gotten to use Domain of One's Own, but we did use *email* and build a web site in Gardner Campbell's classes 🙂)