When I started a post-doc at Georgia Tech in 2010, I started bike commuting to work to avoid the $600 annual parking costs. It was easier then: it was just 3 miles from where I live in East Atlanta Village.
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When I started a post-doc at Georgia Tech in 2010, I started bike commuting to work to avoid the $600 annual parking costs. It was easier then: it was just 3 miles from where I live in East Atlanta Village.
In preparing for this academic year, I wanted to develop a simple and clear WordPress architecture to demonstrate to students. We are entering the second year of using self-hosted domains in our DWMA classes, and I knew that many students of mine would have multiple classes in which they were asked to use their own domains.
In August 2013, while I was finishing up as a lecturer at Georgia State and getting ready to start a new job at Southern Polytechnic State, I threw up a Google Community called Atlanta DH/D-Ped and started posting about events, open jobs, and things I was reading. My first post there outlined, roughly, what I was trying to do — build community. I saw my friend Brennan Collins (GSU) organizing digital pedagogy events with great potential, and I wanted other people to know about them along with other DH and digital pedagogy events in Atlanta. I learned from my work on Hybrid Pedagogy that it is impossible to predict the value and direction of a group of likeminded open educators and researchers; best to just provide a framework for our conversations and see where it goes.