Plymouth Create is a digital identity platform piloted in 2017 at Plymouth State University that has grown significantly since its start. It allows students and faculty to own personal domains to showcase interdisciplinary project-based learning through digital portfolios and websites. Support resources help users get started and provide guidance on open teaching and learning practices. Future goals include increasing adoption of digital open online opportunities and developing more application templates to support a variety of projects.

1. BuildYour Digital Identity

2. • Plymouth Create piloted Spring semester 2017
• Growth so far:
o Off to a slow start: 137 accounts created from January 2017 -
August 2017
o 460 accounts January 2018
o 633 accounts July 2018
o 935 accounts today
Plymouth Create

3. Why DoOO at Plymouth?
• Students and faculty as owners and managers of their personal domains
• Cluster pedagogy:
• Interdisciplinarity and integration​
• Project-based learning​
• External audience​
• Gen Ed "Habits of Mind”: self-regulated learning, purposeful
communication, integrated perspective, and problem solving

4. Plymouth Create

5. How to Get Started
• Getting Started Guide (PDF)
• Support docs and tutorial videos
• Guidance on teaching and learning in the Open from the Open
Teaching and Learning Lab
• In class workshops for account creation
• Professional development opportunities and pairing with campus
initiatives like the Academic Technology Institute

6. Start with Why
• Which projects, courses, and programs align well with DoOO— Our
goal is to start with WHY
• Sharing successes and challenges: Cathie LeBlanc "Creating a Digital
Identity" and "Design of My Website" shared with the campus
community via Yammer

7. Future goals
• Increase adoption of DoOO as a pedagogical tool and as a
digital portfolio tool
• Develop more application templates in Installatron: e.g.
TruWriter, TruCollector, WP temaplates, etc.

8. • How to work in the “Open”
• Exit strategies
• Blog syndication and WordPress multisites
• Management of student sites and assignments
• Grading
Challenges

9. caityoleary.plymouthcreate.net/
Portfolio/Social Media Connection

10. robhansen.plymouthcreate.n
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robhansen.plymouthcreate.net/
Artistic Process/Statement

11. robhansen.plymouthcreate.n
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rjfrench.plymouthcreate.net/flowtaichi
Alternative/External-Facing Final Project

12. robhansen.plymouthcreate.n
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algaeappliedproject.plymouthcreate.net/
Database/Resources

13. Student Sites
• Art: Caity O'Leary and Rob Hansen
• IDS: Vincent Lapointe and Kayla Medeiros
• Exercise and Sports Physiology: JinLyi Mah
• First Year Seminar: Elisabeth Kelly and Jordan Durand
• Rebecca Rand Applied Algae Project
• Ryan French Flow Tai Chi Project
• Makenna Franklin Capstone Project

14. Staff/Faculty Sites
Staff/Faculty Sites
• Erika Rydberg, Digital Creation Technologist
• Pamela Harland, Library Media Specialist and Education
Technology Integrator Program Coordinator
• Cathie LeBlanc, Professor of Digital Media and
Coordinator of General Education

15. Questions