You have your own web domain (a blog, a course website, etc..) but you (or your institution or your government!) don’t want to keep maintaining or updating the site, but you still want to keep a high-fidelity archived, fixed in time?

Web archiving allow us to create high-fidelity copies of entire websites. Web archive mirroring is a new approach to keep the site, exactly as it was (or as close as possible) on its original domain (or replacement domain), but powered by a web archive!

This presentation will cover new open source tooling from Webrecorder, which allows for creating statically hosted (and low-cost) mirrors entirely from web archives.

We will provide simple examples and also cover more sophisticated examples of multi-site mirrors such as the one hosted on https://govarchive.us/

How do we build educational technology that serves liberation rather than surveillance? This session explores “cooperative digital organizing. “Creating community-controlled spaces that prioritize privacy, consent, and collective decision-making over engagement metrics and data extraction.

Drawing on the Initiative for Literacy in a Digital Age’s transition from academic organization to cooperative network, we’ll share what we’re learning about how educational communities can reclaim digital sovereignty. We’ll examine our journey from Google Workspace and social media to privacy-first tools like Nextcloud, Signal, and self-hosted alternatives. Not as technical solutions, but as pedagogical choices.

“On Writing” is a video podcast hosted by Jim Groom and Team Reclaim and for this episode we are thrilled to welcome Dr Catherine Cronin. Catherine is an independent scholar focused on critical and social justice approaches in digital, open and higher education; and recently co-edited the recently published open-access book Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures with Laura Czerniewicz.

Next week we’re holding our flagship conference Reclaim Open, so in this week’s stream we give you a quick orientation of how to take part and how to make the most of the event. Tune in to hear more about what’s in store and learn how YOU can get involved.

Jim and Taylor chat about Ghost and Activitypub, walk through the capabilities of Ghost's Social web (beta) and do an upgrade on the company blog. Tune in for the DRAMA of seeing if Jim and I can pull all that off in one hour with minimal prep work 😄

This week we are excited to host Eamon Costello, Associate Professor of Digital Learning at Dublin City University!

Join the team from Reclaim Hosting to find out what’s coming up in our fall workshops about all things Domain of One’s Own and WordPress Multisite. We’re looking to gather a group of administrators from various schools to come together online for training and discussion as we take a deep dive into our two most popular services.

Watch the stream over at Reclaim TV, or catch the recording later on archive.reclaim.tv or our YouTube channel!

Find out more about our workshops

Admin Workshop: Domain of One’s Own (October 14 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm)

The workshop provides both applied training and concrete examples of administering and teaching with Domain of One’s Own, along with individual help, peer support and time for questions.

Admin Workshop: WordPress Multisite (WPMS) (November 18 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm)

This workshop will help you learn about administering WPMS, explore themes and plug-ins, find out how to build a WPMS that supports your goals and also learn more about troubleshooting and how to fix common issues.

Tune in to not one but two special guests as we continue our "On Writing" series

Tune in to Maren Deepwell and Alan Levine on this week’s “On Writing” stream. Alan Levine (https://cog.dog/) explores the potential of new technologies for education. In 1993 he set up a web server on a Mac SE/30 at the Maricopa Community Colleges and has not left since.

His current role is DirectorCommunity Engagement at Open Education Global (https://oeglobal.org). Before that he provided consulting on digital technologies and the affordances of the open web, working with a variety of higher education institutions and organizations such as BCcampus, eCampus Ontario, Coventry University, the University of Guadalajara, Creative Commons, Virginia Commonwealth University, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, The Open University, and Mozilla. For something even more curious, ask him about “SPLOTs.”

Earlier in his career Alan led innovation efforts in his work with the New Media Consortium and the Maricopa Community Colleges. Since 2003 Alan has openly shared his ideas and discoveries at CogDogBlog.com. Alan works from home in Saskatchewan where his current interests include digital storytelling, photography, bending WordPress to his whims, and randomly dipping into and sharing from the infinite river of the internet.

Over the past year much has happened, from upgrading our infrastructure to developing new services and championing the work happening in our community via case studies and even launching a brand new community of practice (AKA Bloggers Anonymous)!

Join Team Reclaim as we share the inside view, reflect on our highlights and also lessons learnt. We are a small team of people passionate about supporting indie edtech and reclaiming your digital identity. We are part of the open web and we want to see it flourish, so in this stream we share some of our work supporting open and independent educational technology.