Reclaim Rewind << Summer Edition 2026

Welcome

Join us tomorrow, 7/15, for Reclaim's Rewind << Summer Education 2026. At the end of the academic year there's often not much time to pause, reflect and celebrate what's been achieved before moving on to the next thing. So we invite you to use this event as an opportunity to take a moment and look back at the best bits of 2026 to date.

Agenda

All things open!

We're starting the day with a look back at Wikipedia @ 25: Knowledge is Human, featuring Special Guests Lorna Campbell and Autumm Caines. Much of our work happens on the open web, and other than maybe WordPress there is no other tool or platform that our community uses more than Wikipedia.

We're staying with the open theme for the next one, which we recorded during Open Education Week: ILTA Conference Preview with Kate Molloy and Rob Lowney.

If these sessions inspire you, there's plenty more to explore:

• read Jim's blog post Unscripted Futures in which he shares his take on the conference;
• watch the keynote recordings from ILTA which are now available via the website;
• take a look at the review of Open Education Week which brings together an incredible number of resources from 273 events which were organised this year!

Take a Retro Tech break

One of the things that inspires us is taking a deep dive into retro tech! We even have a dedicated podcast as part of the new Reclaim Podcast Network, celebrating all things Retro Tech and this episode features Jim and Taylor having a lot of fun with some RetroTink-ering:

For a little more retro inspiration, we invite you to read this post by Taylor, who takes you on A Backwoods CMS Adventure:

A Backwoods CMS Adventure

Tired of your same old CMS? Maybe take a small vacation from it and try this out. I’ll be your trail guide for this rustic web authoring adventure. While this is a vacation and it will have its charms, we will be roughing it, so be prepared to explore this

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For a different kind of inspiration, tune in to this episode of our "On Writing" podcast, featuring special guest Laura Hilliger:

All the hits!

When we put together the program for this event, we took at look at our most popular sessions from the past six months. These sessions focus on some of the biggest topics in open educational technology starting with accessibility, scaling up technology deployment and finding sustainable solutions.

This session led by Alexis and Taylor was top of the list for most of our community this year, and we had so much demand that Alexis put together a series of blog posts with all the resources, too.

Special Guest Ed Beck helped us shine a light on how open edtech solutions move from experiment to enterprise level service, and brought our case study of the SUNY Oneonta OpenLab to life.

With more and bigger digital platforms and services, long-term stewardship of digital estates is a key question for Higher Ed professionals. An essential aspect of preservation is thinking about how to flatten, or archive dynamic sites that are no longer going to be updated, to make sure they continue to be accessible! In this session we shared tips and tools to help you archive content and preserve sites for the long haul.

... it's a wrap.

Thanks so much for joining us for Reclaim Rewind, and taking a look back at some of the highlights of our year so far. We hope you found some inspiration and in turn feel ready to celebrate and share something you have done with us:

Our new podcast Faces of Reclaim will launch September 29th, 2026 as a part of our new and improved Reclaim Podcast Network. So, if are you interested in sharing your project and your story please reach out to support@reclaimhosting.com for more information.

Our Student Showcase is also open for applications until September 30th, 2026. If you are working with students in a Domain of One’s Own, Shared Hosting or a Wordpress Multisite, we want to hear from you! Take a look at our
Student Showcase Submission From.