{"id":227,"date":"2019-09-20T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0113\/?p=227"},"modified":"2020-02-16T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T20:39:11","slug":"introducing-martha-burtis-and-jim-groom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0113\/introducing-martha-burtis-and-jim-groom\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Martha Burtis and Jim Groom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Graphic(A note at the outset – I started writing this post about Jim Groom, only to realize how important Martha Burtis’ voice is to the story of ds106. I elected to write about the two of them to ensure that her voice is not lost.)<\/em><\/p>\n

I would like to share a brief overview Jim Groom and Martha Burtis\u2019 work around Digital Storytelling 106 (ds106) with the University Mary Washington (UMW) in Fredricksburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n

Ds106, originally written by Jennifer Pollack, was restructured and delivered in an experimental \u2018Open\u2019 way in 2011 by Jim Groom<\/a> and Martha Burtis<\/a>. Faculty at UMW had, the year before, received their own domains and had started writing blogs, experimenting with open community and network building. Groom had been teaching ds106 face-to-face and suggested opening it up to the World Wide Web, allowing open participation. Burtis agreed, and the phenomenon of ds106 was born.<\/p>\n

They taught different sections of the course – the first of its kind. It combined a real, practical understanding of \u2018Open\u2019 as an education concept and successful implementation. Ds106 is remarkable for several reasons: students received their own domain with which to demonstrate learning (something that later evolved into Domain of Ones Own, or DoOO), all the domains were syndicated into the main site so that they could be viewed by categories and tags, creating a connected, online community of students. Students were given the opportunity to submit assignments for themselves and other students to do, allowing them to choose an assignment a week from this democratized assignment bank to complete and post for others to view, give feedback and comment on.<\/p>\n

This short introduction does not capture the seismic effect that this course delivery model had on Ed Tech in general. The after shocks of ds106 are seen in our own program, with each member of our cohort having a blog to publish to and network with, our syndication through Feedly, and the use of the RRU WordPress site to house the bulk of our teaching materials. Our blogs are open to the Web, meaning that anyone can view and comment on our work.<\/p>\n

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Martha Burtis is currently Learning Teaching Developer at Plymouth State University. She has blogged for many years at The Fish Wrapper<\/a>, and currently muses about Ed Tech, teaching and more at Beyond the Wrapper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jim Groom is currently an owner operator of the web hosting company Reclaim Hosting, founded in 2013 that specializes in hosting for Higher ed. He continues to blog about Ed Tech, Edupunk topics, media, and his personal life over at Bava Tuesdays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Resources:<\/h3>\n

Groom, J. (n.d.). About \u2013 Reclaim Hosting. Retrieved September 20, 2019, from Reclaim Hosting website: https:\/\/reclaimhosting.com\/about\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Friend, C. (2016, August 19). Making and Breaking Domain of One\u2019s Own: Rethinking the Web in Higher Ed. Retrieved September 20, 2019, from Hybrid Pedagogy website: https:\/\/hybridpedagogy.org\/making-breaking-rethinking-web-higher-ed\/<\/a><\/p>\n

University Mary Washington. (2019). About ds106 [Course Description]. Retrieved September 20, 2019, from http:\/\/ds106.us\/about\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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