indieweb | Chris Aldrich

Webmentions with WordPress for Open Pedagogy

Abstract: With growing support for the W3C Webmention spec, teachers can post assignments on their own websites & students can use their sites to respond and interact. Entire classes can have open discussions from site-to-site owning all their data and eschewing corporate surveillance capitalism. Missed my presentation for PressEdConf20 on Twitter earlier and want to…

There's current research, coding work, and thinking going on within the #IndieWeb community to extend ideas like private webmentions and limiting audience so that this sort of interaction can happen in more secluded online spaces. #PressEdConf20

When the course is over, the student has an archive of their readings, work, and participation (portfolio anyone?) on a site they own. They can choose to leave it public or unpublish it and keep private copies. #DoOO #PressEdConf20

Another plugin I love is Post Kinds which automatically parses URLs I want to reply to, like, bookmark, etc. and saves the reply context to my website which helps prevent context collapse. My commentary and notes then appear below it. #PressEdConf20

The Webmention Plugin (surprise!) enables this quickly on WordPress. I also highly recommend the Semantic Linkbacks plugin for improved presentation of notifications in your comments section. #PressEdConf20

Many common content management systems support Webmention either out of the box or with plugins including: our friend #WordPress, Drupal, WithKnown, Grav, and many others. #PressEdConf20

Some of these new W3C specs include Webmention, Micropub, WebSub, IndieAuth, and Microsub. Today I'll talk abut Webmentions which are simply site-to-site @mentions or notifications which don't involve corporate social media silos. #PressEdConf20

Hello everyone! My name is @ChrisAldrich. You can find more about me on my website https://boffosocko.com. Today I'll be talking about Webmentions for #OpenPedagogy. #PressEdConf20

Annotated edit (indieweb.org)

An edit (AKA diff, change) is a special type of reply that indicates a set of suggested changes to the post it is replying to. A collection of (presumably related) suggested edits in open source is often called a patch or pull request.

In part out of laziness and lack of an easy way to implement a workflow and mark up, I will post content (bookmarks or notes) to my website and (pseudo-)syndicate all or portions of it to the IndieWeb wiki as either edits or as links to See Also sections of pages. "Pseudo" because the content…

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“What do I miss” is the wrong question, because the feeling isn’t an absence, but a presence.

If running your own website is like operating a nuclear reactor, then, yes: let’s give up on that. But what if it’s more like cooking dinner at home? That’s an activity that many people find challenging and/or intimidating, one with all sorts of social and economic ~encumbrances~, but even so, who would argue that it’s inappropriate…

Participating in PressEdConf20 directly from WordPress

Last year I thought it would be fun to outline how people might use their #WordPress websites to actively participate in #PressEdConf20 by posting content on their WordPress website and syndicating copies to Twitter for those following that way. (Meta: Welcome to my talk: I know it's cheating & early, but I'm hoping a few…

Those who are paying attention at #PressEdConf20 will see the value in webmention for allowing cross-site interactions without the need for "social media". WithKnown, Drupal, Grav, and other CMSes are capable of doing this too. (Ownership of your Open Pedagogy Anyone? Who needs invasive corporate social media to interact online now?)