Reclaim's Roundup, March '25
Welcome to our monthly news round up, packed with everything that's coming up, dates for the diary and important updates from the last month, all in one place.
News and Announcements
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For over a decade we have operated as a small, independent company supporting open and independent educational technology. If you are currently considering options outside of large corporate offerings or are looking to move servers in the US, UK, Europe or Canada, we're here to help and this quick explainer offers some starting points.
Events and Streams on Reclaim TV
Register free for upcoming events via our Events Calendar.
Dimensions of AI Literacies: An Introduction
March 28 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Event info
Join Dr. Angela Gunder of Opened Culture and Dr. Doug Belshaw of We Are Open in this free, interactive workshop as they unveil the multifaceted and transformative world of “AI Literacies.
Mike Caulfied and Jim Groom on Reclaim TV
April 11 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Event info
Join Mike Caulfield and Jim Groom on Reclaim TV as they talk about online writing as both laboratory for experimentation as well as an intervention.
Amy Collier, Tom Woodward and Jim Groom on Reclaim TV
April 25 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Event info
For this session we’ll be joined by Tom Woodward (Director of Learning Spaces and Technologies) and Amy Collier (Associate Provost for Digital Learning) of Middlebury College to discuss their online series “Demystifing AI: Big Promises, Big Questions“.
Staff pick: How to get started with Ghost for blogging
April 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Event info
Many bloggers are experimenting with platforms beyond WordPress and right now Ghost is one of the most popular ones! Building on our successful flex course on Ghost, this session offers a quick overview of using Ghost for blogging (and newsletters!) and how to get started. If you are already using Ghost, come along and share what’s working well, and what you are stuck with. Sometimes trying out a brand new platform can really help put that spring back into your blogging step. This session will be led by Taylor Jadin.
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The Month in Blog Posts
Inspired by our Blogging Community of Practice, there's plenty of blogging:
- Romanticizing WordPress and the Future Past of Possibility by Jim Groom
- Indirect Prompt Injection by Taylor Jadin
- A really intriguing self-hostable bookmarking tool by Taylor Jadin
- Kin Lane on Writing, Blogging, and Life by Jim Groom
- Blogging on the Open Web by Maren Deepwell
- The social web beta is here by Taylor Jadin
- Future Visions of Open Textbooks in 1996 by Jim Groom
- Ruminations on Networks and the Culture by Noah Dorsett
Save the Date: Reclaim Open returns
Get your diary out and save the date, because come October you will be attending a very special event: from November 3-7, Reclaim Open returns! The theme of this year’s conference is still under wraps, but if you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening across our community this year, then you’ll be right in assuming that this year’s event will be a call to action to make your voice heard on the open web.
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