Extend Activity Bank
  • Add Activity
  • Modules
    • Collaborator
    • Curator
    • Experimenter
    • Scholar
    • Teacher for Learning
    • Technologist
  • How To Do It
  • Random
  • Latest Responses

Domain Camp Activities

There sure are a lot of moving parts to managing a domain of your own. This camp experience (which is open any time of year) will lead you through activities to become more familiar with cpanel, subdomains, web redirects, installing applications on a Domain of One's Own.

There are 25 Domain Camp Activities. View sorted by

A Guard Dog For a Web File Directory

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading...

Difficulty: 1 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created August 8, 2018 by Alan Levine • 720 views • 1 responses

A Guard Dog For a Web File Directory

Sometimes you will end up with a web directory structure that leaves a bunch of files exposed publicly. You may not want that. This happens when you install the Yourls app for example, visit the demo one we set up https://jump.extendlabs.ca/ or earlier when we created a web directory of “stuff” at http://extendlabs.ca/stuff. Not very pretty! This… Read more »

Activity Details

Add Fresh RSS, a self-hosted RSS aggregator to your domain

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading...

Difficulty: 1 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created August 7, 2018 by Lisa Koster • 1293 views • 1 responses

Add Fresh RSS, a self-hosted RSS aggregator to your domain

We all probably follow a variety of blogs either through email subscriptions or RSS feeds. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) RSS (Rich Site Summary; originally RDF Site Summary; often called Really Simple Syndication) is a type of web feed[2] which allows users to access updates to online content in a standardized, computer-readable format. These feeds can, for example, allow a user to keep track… Read more »

Activity Details

Store and Share Files in your Domain’s OwnCloud

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading...

Difficulty: 3 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created August 6, 2018 by Alan Levine • 777 views • 4 responses

Store and Share Files in your Domain’s OwnCloud

With your domain you can run your own service that does the same things as Dropbox, but all the files stay on your own server. With your web hosting account, you can easily install ownCloud: ownCloud is a suite of client–server software for creating and using file hosting services. ownCloud is functionally very similar to… Read more »

Activity Details

Adding YOURLs- a URL Shortener to Your Domain

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
Loading...

Difficulty: 2 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 35855 views • 4 responses

Adding YOURLs- a URL Shortener to Your Domain

There are plenty of free services for creating short URLs for content you create. They are handy for sharing long links (like the ones google apps create) and even making them more human readable. As an owner of a domain, you don’t need to go somewhere else where your links may one day vanish, or… Read more »

Activity Details

Running Your Sites under SSL

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)
Loading...

Difficulty: 4 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created July 23, 2018 by Alan Levine • 1304 views • 6 responses

Running Your Sites under SSL

Whether or not you have concerns about security for content on your domain, there are very good reasons for understanding to make sure your content is served over SSL, and how the http:// in front of web site addresses is different from ones that start with https://. The latter are sites that send content that… Read more »

Activity Details

An Email of Your Own

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading...

Difficulty: 2 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 668 views • 4 responses

An Email of Your Own

There’s more to a Domain of One’s Own than web sites! You have the power now to create email addresses, forwarders, even mailing lists that are named with your domain. In this section, we will show you easily how to set up a custom email address that can forward messages to the system you use… Read more »

Activity Details

Build a WordPress SPLOT

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
Loading...

Difficulty: 4 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 1191 views • 6 responses

Build a WordPress SPLOT

You now have set up at least two WordPress sites, and maybe after the creation of a WordPress based Calling Card site you can sense there is more to using this for a chronologically organized series of posts. Enter the world of SPLOTs, which might mean Smallest Possible Learning Online Tool (or something else), see… Read more »

Activity Details

Building a WordPress Calling Card Site

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading...

Difficulty: 4 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created July 22, 2018 by Alan Levine • 1070 views • 7 responses

Building a WordPress Calling Card Site

Having done a first WordPress installation for the experience and understanding how it works, it’s time to create a site for ourself, a landing page or a calling card site for our domain. The three themes we are suggesting are relatively simple yet flexible (but are hardly your own options). You can create sites using… Read more »

Activity Details

Creating Subdomains in Cpanel

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading...

Difficulty: 3 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created July 13, 2018 by Alan Levine • 1178 views • 9 responses

Creating Subdomains in Cpanel

After putting up their front gate, the mad scientists at Extend Labs anticipated future separate parts of their site for: A blog to reflect on their Domain Camp work (you will want that too). A place to perhaps install or build a photo gallery of their experiments (perhaps just uploaded via the File Manager?). A… Read more »

Activity Details

Redirecting with a Subdomain

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading...

Difficulty: 1 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Created by Alan Levine • 1150 views • 8 responses

Redirecting with a Subdomain

Mostly we will create content on our own servers for our subdomains, but they also are handy for being an easy to remember short cut link to content elsewhere on the web. We can use a subdomain as a way to seamlessly send a site visitor to a link we have chosen For example, the… Read more »

Activity Details

  • «
  • ← Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Next →

Leading Responders

  1. @IrenequStewart (56)
  2. @lkoster (43)
  3. @hj_dewaard (37)
  4. @lynn_chartrand (33)
  5. @melyoung00 (30)
  6. @BryantKoski (26)
  7. @ProfMelLefebvre (25)
  8. @data_professor (25)
  9. @stevensecord (22)
  10. @Kcarte02 (15)

more…

The Extend Activity bank is a give and take situation.

Learn more…

built by @cogdog

Extend Activity Bank is a version of the DS106 Assignment Bank as a Wordpress theme (available on Github)