With the contract, they get to decide to what extent this is true for them

Contract grading seemed like a potentially useful tool in combating student anxiety over grades by putting control of the grade firmly in students’ hands.

"A Domain of One’s Own” is so important and so innovative — learn to seize these tools and build something for ourselves.

It prompts us to ask “what data are we creating” as learners and “who owns it.” Who tracks us. Who profits.

Google knows a lot about us. What we search for. Who we email. And when. Where we live. Where we’re going. What we watch. What we write. What we read. What we buy.

Google Contact Lenses, an experiment to see if tiny sensors on contact lenses can offer a non-intrusive way to monitor diabetics’ glucose levels.

market “innovation” — and how in turn we teachers and students, we consumers, we "users" — are meant to view and admire such developments.

digital citizenship: what students need to know in order to use technology “appropriately.” Schools routinely caution students about the things they post on social media, and the tenor of this conversation — particularly as translated by the media — is often tinged with fears that students will be seen “doing bad things” or “saying bad things” that will haunt them forever.

Having one’s own domain means that students have much more say over what they present to the world, in terms of their public profiles, professional portfolios, and digital identities.

 the domain and all its content are the student’s to take with them.

Instead of focusing on protecting and restricting students’ Web presence, UMW helps them have more control over their scholarship, data, and digital identity.