User:Jgregorymcverry.com
Greg is an educator who believes that we need to teach technology as a literacy issue. He prepares teachers to read, write, and participate on the web.
J. Gregory McVerry (Greg) is an educator trying to use the web to help engineer better teachers.
Web Rings
Current Projects
- Book on Open Pedagogy
- IndieWeb Learning Tools
Open Pedagogy Book
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Developing IndieWeb Learning Tools
- Made progress on building a set of tools for academics to remix classes. It includes
- Course website with module template, learner persona work, podcast building tools, update feed, class directory, and a page to build a class planet.
- Launched a POSSE based academic journal with first issue due 2019-01-05
- Created a course syllabus using CSS Grid (need to fix microformats)
- Taught | #edu522 class using article, note, reply, watch, read, bookmark, and listen post types with students connected through web mentions
IndieWeb Grants
- 2019 1,400,000 #QuestionTheWeb: Critical Evaluation and Argumentative Writing. IES. Resubmission Pending.
- 2019 25,000 Spark Grant Persistence Through Agency, Activism, and Networking Unfunded.
- 2019 10,000 Start PPOC Grant. Adding SSO and OAuth for Known Integration to ReVIEW Talent Feedback System. University of Connecticut. Funded
- 2019 147,000 Shaping our Worlds and Exploring Our We(s): WebVR and Computer Science Ethics. Mozilla. Unfunded
- 2019 200,000 Creating Community for Open Pedagogy: Adding a Social Reader. SBIR IES. Unfunded
- 2018 50,000 #CheckoutMyDomain. Spencer Small Research Grant. Unfunded
- 2018 1,400,000 #QuestionTheWeb: Critical Evaluation and Argumentative Writing. IES. Unfunded
To Do
- Photos
- design a single photo post template
- map APA citations to mf2
- map Hypothesis annotations to microformats
- Finish Open Pedagogy Book
- Import Bookmarks from other Known site
- Display webmentions on my main blog
- add a CSS grid calendar with h-events I attend or will attend
- edit my About Me page to include short, medium, long, French, Mandarin and Spanish versions
- Automate rel=prev and rel=next link generation
- Automate new articles populating on home page and article page
Doing
- Webmention Badges
- Building a Guestbook
- Helping out folks trying IndieWeb
Done
- Main Website
- Migrating (probably archiving) WordPress Blog
- Building static pages for the website
- Homepage (add streams for three classes)
- Following Page
- Consulting Page
- Adding social stream link
- Add vita
- Add p/t binder from Medium
- Add POSSE to GitHub
- Create follow page
- Create Mention Page
- Make a print version of the resume
- add in my annotations
- add mf2 and rss feed for podcast, make a podecast page
- add in the webring
- add buttons to footer
- add an image credit page
- add collapsible nav media query
- added a template for taking ongoing Twitter threads and turning them into an h-feed or h-entries nested in a n h-entry (will thread be updated or not?
- 2019-08-07
- added all of my pdfs to my website to own my reading
- fixed my podcast feed, added h-entry on archive.org
- 2019-08-08
- changed the CSS of videos to display at 80% width
- fixed some color code changes
- 2019-08-21
- added a photo gallery h-entry template to collect photos specific to events or outings
- 2019-08-22
- moved to viewport for font size
- 2019-08-29
- added a url shortner using yourls jgmac1106.me
- 2019-09-01
- Added a multi-photo, or gallery, collection using CSS Grid and an animated figcaption using flexbox [https://jgregorymcverry.com/finalscramble.html Final Scramble
- 2019-09-30
- added a redirect to force https
- 2019-10-04
- changed all files from html to php
- added a header.php and footer.php to every page
- 2019-10-06
- Began to POSSE notes from main domain to Twitter manually using Bridgy
- 2019-11-03
- Added a u-follow-of note to POSSE my follow posts.
- 2019-11-04
- Redid nav to move it to footer on small screens and in the header on larger displays
- 2019-11-05
- added html sanitizer to php templates for urls to reduce risk of a xss attack.
- 2019-11-23
- Added a video page with seperate h-feed and rss feeds for topics
- 2019-11-28
- Finished to do list page adding a deadlines section and using details and summary.
- 2019-11-30
- Added a 404 error page
- 2019-12-03
- Added rel and prev links to all notes
- 2020-02-08
- Added first draft of poetry feed
- 2020-02-16
- Add pagination to article feeds
- IWC Austin (find date)
- added a poetry feed, rss podcast of audio poems
- made a calender view
- IWC London (find dates)
- added css subgrid to article cards
- added microsub endpoint
- added webmentions
- Build a poetry page with multiple feeds
- Add follow post kind. Decided to just do follow posts manually.
- h-resume template for students one plain, one all done up,
- archive old blog
- Finish migration of social stream to Known
- Known Blog
- Set up challenge page
- Make a Read plugin
- Make a Listen plugin
- Match colors to main blog
- add links to common hashtags
- Migrate publications from Medium
- Add Mastodon plugin
- Add the Mastodon embed status plugin
- Added ability to POSSE GitHub issues from Known
- Archiving all posts to WaybackMachine
- Adding video and video codec supports
- Fixed the h-food on the food template to an h-entry and updated website
Didn't Happen
- Webmention vs Zombies (site built no players...relaunch next Halloween)
- Designing narrative game for play (story written, character templates made)
Future Goals
- Playing with PHP
- Connecting #IndieWeb and #OER movements
Events Attended/Accomplished
(search blog to back fill vHWCs)
- IndieWeb Summit
- Create #IndieWeb course template
- Create syllabus
- Help others launch websites
- IndieWeb NYC 2018
- Organizer
- Help others launch website
- IndieWeb Camp Online 2019
- Organizer
- mf2 podcast session
- commonplace book session
- profile session
- Didn't demo worked on guestbook
- Wrote tutorial for making an mf2 podcast page and hosting it on archive.org
Brainstorming
- Micropub badge maker
- Received grant. Currently, working on this in conjunction with ReVIEW Talent feedback System
- Will use the Kirby CMS
- Not using Kirby building webmnetion badges in Known CMS
- chatroom for classroom websites
- I am currently using minnit.chat, and embedding it as an iframe
- I used Slack, nobody chats. Need to scaffold in this behavior rather than expect.
- May move to Microsoft Teams as provided by University
- Want a chat or fast syndication of notes and replies solution.
- Student blogging platform, Used Wordpress.com at a free level. Need to go ad-free to protect privacy. Might make them pay $4. Hard to ask hungry people to pay for domains.
- WordPress (self-hosted) IndieWeb worked for my advanced technologies class but not possible for first-year students
- went back to allowing a blogging platform of choice or using LMS "blogs"
- For edtech class they will build sites on glitch, may go back to a multi user Known instance
- Examine changes in HTML properties from parsed websites to test growth curve models
- Develop assistive bots
- Microformats Citation generator
- Working with
Martijn van der Ven and Template:cjwillcock to build APA microformats machine - Build the HTML input fields for each APA citation type
- map microformats on to APA citation styles
- Handoff to Martijn van der Ven to make magic happen
- Working with
Previous Brainstorming
Headless IndieWeb LMS
A video walkthrough of my sketches of what I ultimately want with all the pieces I have no idea how to build. [1]
This is the story and canonical domain to follow updates on my microformats2 course templates [2]
Thinking if a UI could then be built to populate the templates: [3]
What if there was an h root for courses? [4]