About

PressED is a twitter conference (#pressedconf18/#pressedconf19) looking into how WordPress is used in teaching, pedagogy and research.

#pressEDconf22 is happening on March 24th – check out the conference website

#pressEDconf21 is happening on March 25th – check out the conference website

#pressEDconf20 happened on March 26th – check out the conference website

#pressEDconf19 happened on April 18th – check out the conference website

The First PressED conference happened on March 29th 2018 – check out the conference website

We’re very much inspired by the Public Archaeology Twitter Conference

Get involved!

Hey!

We’re looking for people to help organise and run pressEd! We’re especially interested in people from outside the UK and / or from groups which are underrepresented.

Send an email to [email protected] for more if you’re interested. Or share the link to help 🙂

Thanks!

Organisers

Natalie Lafferty (@nlafferty)

Natalie is an open education practitioner in higher and medical education and heads the Centre for Technology and Innovation in Learning at the University of Dundee. Over the past 10 years she’s been an advocate of using open technologies in higher education to support co-creation of learning and digital scholarship.  Natalie led the development of Dundee Medical School’s WordPress-based VLE “MedBlogs’ and in her teaching encourages students to use WordPress to support their reflective practice.

and


Pat Lockley (@pgogy)

Pat Lockley (@pgogy) started out in WordPress at the University of Nottingham as a blogger.

He then went to work at the University of Oxford on a WordPress OER project as a developer. When that ended, he worked on another WordPress OER project

He then went to the University of London, where amongst other things, he helped redesign their blog

For the last four years, he’s been self-employed running Pgogy Webstuff and doing a lot in WordPress

You can see more on his WordPress dot Org profile

Legal stuff

We’re not linked with WordPress in any legal way (bar being users) and we’re not an official WordCamp.

We’re also not linked with WP Campus.

All of the above are great things however and you should check them out!

Credits

All pictures are CC-BY

About Photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/145472109@N04/24600099067

When Photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/54133975@N08/25660706418

Keynote Photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/161855128@N08/38750885124

Sessions Photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/147731466@N03/38898498101

Submit Photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/63122283@N06/33974694364

Organisers Photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/99460566@N06/38118143186

Credits Photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/154606111@N05/25488488188

Conduct and Legal Stuff Photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/37922399@N05/38662924294

Deadline photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/12280272683

Tags photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/27532236@N00/39991866855

Categories photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/49840171@N08/40941501841

Schedule photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/25188498@N03/39123626860

Get involved photo : https://www.flickr.com/photos/76126728@N00/26787792277