Domain Kits

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What’s In a Domain Name?

cogdog — Fri, 01 May 2020 22:07:08 +0000

Before you start learning how to manage an internet domain of your own, you face the step of choosing a name for what will be a shorthand for the "street address" on the internet.

Remember that like a home address, the real internet address of your site is a numerical assigned number, representing the location of your domain host, e.g. 24.67.198.30. The domain names we usually see, are shorthands for this addresses. If you are setting up a full domain of you own, this will be the word to the left of the dot of a Top Level Domain (TLD) often original ones such as .com, .net, .org, or country domain such as .es, .it, .jp, .ca, .mx. In other situations, the name you choose will be to the left of an existing two level domain name such as stateu.org, coventry.domains, etc. The part you are choosing is the word just to left of a dot in these various domain structures. It will be unique to the domain, so there can only be one domain such as coolkit.stateu.org, but there can also be a coolkit.com or a coolkit.es. Any other dots to the left belong to you, as we will see ;later when we build subdomains. But what is in that name? Some people stick with something close to or based on their real name, so it clearly identifies all their web sites, as a personal brand, for example balimaha.me (Maha Bali, an educator from American University Cairo) or johnjohnston.info (John Johnston, an educator from Glasgow, Scotland). Others are fortunate and clever enough to obtain a domain that is actually their name, also known as a domain hack! For example WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has the tidy domain of ma.tt (.tt is the top level domain for the nation of Trinidad and Tobago). Others chose domain names that are more thematic, a play on words, a reference to interests or just a playful attitude. Australian educator Kate Bowles writes from musicfordeckchairs.com. Educational Technologist Tom Woodward owns bionicteaching.com. Tannis Morgan, open educator, owns the domain homonym.ca. There is generally a story behind all these names, and if you visit the sites, there is likely an explanation written there. There is no “correct” answer whether you should use your own name or not (but plenty of search result suggestions)- it’s a matter of what fits better for your personality, and as long as you are creating and sharing at that address. It's your address, and you get to pick it. If you have a domain name, what was the thinking behind your domain name? If you do not have one yet, what kinds of name might you want to have? Share your story at a link or in response form below.

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Interviewing Your Domain

cogdog — Fri, 01 May 2020 22:56:47 +0000

Do you have your own internet domain and some experience managing / using it?? Good! Please share with users of these Domain kits some wisdom from your own experience – specifically, what led you to choose to manage your own domain? How do you use it?

Interview your domain with these questions!

What is your domain name and what is the story, meaning behind your choice of that as a name?
What was your understanding, experience with domains before you got one? Where were you publishing online before having one of your own?
What was a compelling feature, reason, motivation for you to get and use a domain? When you started what did you think you would put there?
What kinds of sites have you set up one your domain since then? How are you using them? Please share URLs!
What helped you or would have helped you more when you started using your domain? What do you still struggle with?
What kind of future plans to you have for your domain?
What would you say to other educators about the value, reason why to have a domain of your own? What will it take them to get going with their own domain?

Answer the questions in the response form below and please share a link to the interview subject (e.g. one of your domain sites). This kit is based on a similar assignment created for Ontario Extend

Why Domain Responses from 2018

cogdog — Fri, 01 May 2020 23:24:56 +0000

The first iteration of this kit was a blog post (on my domain!) where you will find domain interview responses in the the post and comments plus more that came in via twitter.

Hello world!

cogdog — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:47:31 +0000

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

Sample Page

cogdog — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:47:31 +0000

This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this:

Hi there! I'm a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my website. I live in Los Angeles, have a great dog named Jack, and I like piña coladas. (And gettin' caught in the rain.)

...or something like this:

The XYZ Doohickey Company was founded in 1971, and has been providing quality doohickeys to the public ever since. Located in Gotham City, XYZ employs over 2,000 people and does all kinds of awesome things for the Gotham community.

As a new WordPress user, you should go to your dashboard to delete this page and create new pages for your content. Have fun!

Privacy Policy

cogdog — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:47:31 +0000

Who we are

Our website address is: https://lab.cogdogblog.com/kit.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Add a New Kit

cogdog — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 15:47:42 +0000

Use this form to add a new kit to the collection. Each one should have full instructions as well as a completed example as a "model."

Add a New Example

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Welcome to EduHack Domain Kits

cogdog — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 15:47:42 +0000

Do you have an internet domain of your own? Good. What can you do with it? How do you build it out?

There is much you can do as a domain owner. And it takes a bit of upfront planning. But you can also experiment and build it out as you go. These "kits" provide a way to get started one piece at a time. Use them as a model for getting started using all of the possibility places you might construct.

Each kit is an activity that will provide you the instructions and materials necessary to put in your domain a blog, a wiki, a stand alone web site, a file dropbox, a photo gallery, and more. With the practice gained in building out something from the kits, you will gain the experience and confidence for customizing them to fit the needs of your own domain.

Concepts

Understanding domains plus land / house metaphors

Links to sections on domain planning,

Set Up

Exploring the tools, venturing into cpanel

Info on setting up domain (stateU??)

The Kits

A suggested pathway to exploring the kits

Intro to the kits

Random

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Domain Kits

cogdog — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:55:14 +0000

This collection of "kits" gives you specific activities to try that will help you learn how to manage your own internet domain.

Explore on your own or see the kit guide for suggested pathways.

Welcome